If you are willing to get yourself some love and affection or try building a new relationship with a feline, it is important to keep yourself prepared so that you can move through the adjustment period as quickly and easily as possible. The guide to having a good relationship with a cat is to be able to understand it, its needs, and its way of communication and is ready to reciprocate with them so that they can also receive your ways. The list of preparatory items does not include the intangible things like mentally welcoming the new member, ability to comprehend their actions, mischiefs and troubles. They can only be learnt from some reliable source on the internet or some good book.
How Do They Communicate?
Most of the feline animals restrict themselves to around 16 different and distinct sounds to communicate to others. If you study them carefully, you can interpret what they mean, but, there are certain common sounds which have already been studied by experts. You just need to follow some guide to learn them in a short span. Cats also possess a habit of displaying numerous signs using their body language, both serious and playful, and you can also make out their needs from careful observation or reliable guide book.
- In any case, your cat is unique and might have something of its own. If you carefully observe it and spend time with it, both of you will begin to understand and respect each other.
Thus, only a little effort into learning to understand them can save you from lots of rocky patches while developing a new relationship with the new friend and member of your family.
What Do They Need The Most?
These are quite easy than trying to communicate with them and almost every pet shop can tell you the most appropriate one depending on their experience of having been acquainted with lots of varieties. You might start by taking your cat to the shopping venue so that she can choose for herself.
- You must get a nice litter box and a litter brand she prefers. Initially you may experiment with the most popular one. An automatic cat litter box is very suitable if you have a good budget.
- The next thing is a scratching post. You will never want your rug, carpet, blinds or dining table stands to get all torn and scratched. Cats like scratching a lot, so get her one that is sturdy to take her weight, and at least taller than her length when she stretches.
- The next important set of items is a grooming kit. It must consist of certain basic items like nail clipper, hairbrush and more if possible.
- Next, you consider a bed linen or a basket with some soft bedding for her to sleep. It might also be her favorite pass time.
Thus, a few good things to take care of and you are prepared to welcome a new cat into your family.
About the author
Diane is a cat lover (or an ailurophilia if you have paid attention to the article) which tries to provide useful information to cat lovers on especially how to train their cats to use automatic litter boxes on her website at CatLitterBox.Reviews.
And you need patience. Trust me on that. Patience to let the cat come to you on its own terms. Do not try to rush things.
Of course! Patience is always the key 🙂
Some cats are a little more straightforward, but quite a lot of them are shy in a foreign surrounding – all mine were.
Bought MM a lovely bed, it was ready for her when she arrived, she never used it, instead she kept her toys in it. It was only slept in once, the evening we took in a stray before taking her to a rescue centre. She slept in it!
Hehehe! She will soon get used to it 🙂
I think my older stray kitten is an Italian.. He loves to roll his Rrrrs in his meows. He don’t meow like my other kitten, he rrrroar or rrrreow..
Rolling rrrrrreoww is french! So we called it in Italy 😀
Ciao
Sid
So my kitten is French? Oh wow! I should change his name from Sunny to Le Sunshine. Haha!
A sophisticated elegant french kitten, yes!
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Sid
What a sophisticated kitty you have, Kally! Rrreow!
You should see when one of my kitten went Meow and he went Rrreow back and fro..
I love kittens, even if they do keep me awake lol. They crack me up! We have 2 litter boxes and they use one for ummm let’s call it number 1 and then they jump in the other one for number 2! They both do this. I think it’s funny. Salem also has a few times a day that she just goes totally nuts and is flying through the house like a crazy cat. Nothing is safe at those times. I gave up on having curtains for now.
Hahahaha! They surely are well educated they can’t just mix number 1 with number 2! lol
Good, useful advices!
Ciao
Sid
Thanks!
Love!
2016-02-03 8:01 GMT+01:00 Katzenworld :
> dianeklady posted: “If you are willing to get yourself some love and > affection or try building a new relationship with a feline, it is important > to keep yourself prepared so that you can move through the adjustment > period as quickly and easily as possible. The guide to havin” >
Thanks Ana! Have a lovely day
Reblogged this on ravenhawks' magazine and commented:
Great info. I just had this discussion about bringing home a new kitty with a couple of clients.