It’s not that cats are overly fond of stretching. It’s that we humans don’t stretch enough. see more Lolcats and funny pictures Stretchy kitties are happy kitties. Cats have the ability to remain immobile for long periods, then explode into action. This is a vital strategy of their hunting style. Stretching elongates the muscle fibers [...]
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Cat Exercise Needs
There’s a number of wrong ideas about cat exercise floating around. Some of this comes from concern over their weight, from people mistaking them for dogs, or from not understanding what their natural modes of exercise were in the wild. This is too bad, because it’s both easy and inexpensive to cover a cat’s exercise [...]
How Kittens Learn
There’s a reason kittens are so cute. They don’t know anything; and they don’t know anything. Adult cats can be astonished and exasperated by a kitten’s blatant ignorance of how things fall over and what isn’t good to play with. Often, they will feel like avoiding the kitten, dreading being blamed for kitten fall-out. While [...]








