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Understanding Your Cat: Revised and Updated

Understanding Your Cat: Revised and Updated
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Understanding Your Cat: Revised and Updated

-What makes cats purr?
-Is declawing the safest and most humane way to save your furniture?
-How can you make your animal companion an ideal house guest?

Prominent veterinarian and animal behavior expert Dr. Michael W. Fox answers these questions and many more in this practical and informative guided to owning and caring for your feline companion. Unveiling the mysteries of the feline world, he analyzes every aspect of the cat, from the nest instincts in newborn kittens to the psychological and emotional impact of neutering and declawing adolescent cats.

Understanding Your Cat is an imaginative and thoroughly knowledgeable approach to choosing and training your cat.

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Product Details:
Author: Michael W. Fox
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: March 15, 1992
Language: English
ISBN: 0312071078
Package Length: 8.26 inches
Package Width: 5.47 inches
Package Height: 0.63 inches
Package Weight: 0.56 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 2 reviews
 
 

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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:

2A Disappointment  Jul 25, 2000

Understanding Your Cat sets an expectation for deeper insights into feline behavior. In fact, what little commentary there is on cat behavior is superficial and obvious to the long-time-cat-owner. Dr Fox spends too much time analyzing feline evolution and contrasting feline, canine, and primate behavior and not enough time on cats themselves. Finally, the black and white photographs which comprise the core of the behavior section did not reproduce well and are dificult to see. I could only recommend this book to non-cat-owners.

5 of 7 found the following review helpful:

5Complete owner's manual for a cat  Nov 26, 1998

If you have a cat, especially a siamese or purebred one, you need this book. Some people own a cat for years and still don't know the first thing about them or how to properly take care of them. This book gives you a luminous insight into their super-selfish but predictable behavior, such as why they seem to turn around and try to get back in a door when you let them out. The many photos are great too, as is the history of where our domestic cats come from. All in all, "America's best known animal psychologist" is not an understatement. Dr. Michael Fox rocks!