Way of Cats blog Rotating Header Image

Posts under ‘socialization’

Law of Reciprocity

Thanks for stopping by! Get The Way of Cats, delivered, by asking for my RSS feed. Get my free cat advice newsletter by signing up here and get the FREE eBook, Ten Cat Tricks (Every Human Should Know.)What is the Law of Reciprocity? It is the fundamental cat understanding move. It should shape and inform [...]

Dear Pammy, Where did I go wrong?

A reader writes:
My girlfriend is a cat LOVER. As for me, not so much, but I am trying. Trying to be the good boyfriend I am, I wanted the cat to like me. so I started playing with it (the cat never wanted to play) getting it from its “hiding spots”, and just trying to [...]

Helping Cats Cope with Guests

To make friends with our cat in the home, we edge creep closer and closer while we spoil them.
This tactic works well with strangers, too.
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
It’s very important that a cat’s first encounter with someone should go smoothly, because even the friendliest cats are carefully gathering information about new people, and [...]

Cat Friendly Holidays

How can we get our cats to be in safe places during the holidays, and not so likely to be underfoot? How can we get them to join in the fun while not making anyone unhappy?
Do we have a cat who would like to mingle? Maybe?
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
We can always be socializing [...]

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes