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Cats facts 01: food and play

        
Cat plays with a ribbon [1] - Cat plays with a pendulum ring [2] - Cat fishing rod / cat rustle homemade with a stick and an incised chip bag [3]
2 cats on a cat tree are enjoying a beautiful view [4]
          
Cat toy: aluminium ball made of aluminium foil [5] - Cat: food on a feeding board (fiddling board) with different containers [6a] - Cat food in a roll box [6b] - cat food in a roll pyramid [6c] - Cat in the apartment: tree landscape on the wall of a room with a high seat "beautiful view" [7a] - food board with sliding doors [7b]
          
Cat sleeps contracted [8a] - Cat gets food on a feeding board [8b] - Cat on a cat ladder being fixed on a room wall with a cat tree [8c] - Domestic cat outside hunting 3 hours, wildcats 10 hours per day [8d]

translated and presented by Michael Palomino (2024) - translation with Deepl

1. Toys to stimulate hunting behavior - the list

Play with cats: Cats want to solve problems, they like tasks
-- Cats like to solve problems, because they are constantly solving problems when they are living outside, such as looking for food, going home, defending their territory, they search their territory several times a day, etc. [web07].
-- Living outside, cats get impulses to solve problems [web07]
-- Adding a new element once a week is interesting for the cat [web07]
-- 2x per day playing with the cat for 10 minutes is the minimum [web06]
-- Hanging ribbon [web01]
-- Hanging ring [web02]
-- Hanging string [web03]
-- Scent with catnip promotes activity [web04]
-- A small ball made of aluminum foil is the fastest ball, and the cats like to run after it [probably because it glitters so much] [web05]


2. Feeding in general: Playing food hunt - twilight

Playing food hunt: Imitating mice and birds
-- In nature, cats hunt small animals [mice on the ground and birds with climbing on the tree] (6'15'') [web08]
-- A wild cat hunts 10 hours a day, and this energy for hunting prey is in every cat (7'0 '') [web08]
-- Different games with the cat are therefore different hunting strategies of the cat before eating, cats lurk or hunt, so the toy must move like the prey (12'44 '') [web08]
-- Important is HOW the food is given, not necessarily what (3'20'') [web08]
-- Cats love to look for food, this is a natural instinct [for example: looking for mice] [web06]
-- The fun of looking for food is the impulse to play more with objects (13'32'') [web08]
-- So the cat is happy when the cat owners distribute the food irregularly and then they can search and find it: "I distribute a snack there" (18'54'') [web08]
-- The hunting game before feeding is "a must", the house cat should hunt the game rod (17'40'') [web08]
-- Feeding must be a hunting game and a search game, then you have imitated the hunt and the cat moves in a species-appropriate way (10'33'') [web08]
-- The daily hunting game with the cat is essential, there must always be the impulse from outside (11'6'') [web08]
-- Cats do not play by themselves, they do not feel fun by themselves, but they only play when the hunting benefit is behind it (11'14'') [web08]
-- This counts for every cat: no matter if outdoor cat, indoor cat, neutered, multi-cat household, the feeding should always be like this (16'17'') [web08]
-- Use a cat fishing rod with rustling [web03]
-- Simulate the prey with the cat rod rustling [web04]
-- Simulate the prey with cat rod under a blanket [web04]
-- Make the cat rod disappear behind a box or under a cloth [web03]
-- Build your own cat fishing rod: paste a cut chip bag to a stick [web03]
-- Let the cat win at the end as a simulation that it has caught a prey [web04]

Play food hunting: what time is the best time
-- "Cats are active at dusk", and the claim that cats would be a "habitual animal" is NOT true (15'19'') [web08]
-- Free cats outside are hunting in the early morning and in the late evening, always in the twilight in the morning or in the twilight in the evening (15'25'') [web08]
-- In the morning one should also play with the cat before feeding, so do NOT feed immediately, and the cat prefers to eat at dawn or dusk and does not follow a certain clock time of human beings (15'52 '') [web08]
-- In the evening before going to bed you should play with the cat the longest and then feed it so that the cat is tired and sleeps well (15'0'') [web08]
-- Never always feed at the same time and in the same place [because in nature it is never like that] (17'59'') [web08]
-- Important is the variation of the food, the time, the feeding place (11'38'') [web08]

Play food hunt: how many times
-- Cats should get food 3 times a day, maximum 8 hours apart [web06]
-- Play a round of hunting with the cat before giving food, 3 times a day is good, then the cat moves a lot and it also expects that you play with it and stays fit [web07]
-- During the day you should not feed much at all, the cat reports with activity when it is hungry, then you should play a little hunt with the cat and only feed it after the game, this is the species-appropriate feeding, as it also happens in cat life in nature (16'11'') [web08]
-- The food should never be there all day [because in nature the mice or birds are never present all day] [web06]
-- Distribute the food over the day and do not feed the cat full, do not overfeed (17'54 '') [web08]
-- You should not give too much food [because a cat's stomach is very small]: a cat cannot manage more than 5 mice per day, so a maximum of 5 small meals per day is the best for it (13'13'') [web08]

Playing food hunt: where
-- You can always put the food bowl somewhere else, in front of the cat's eyes, even in distant places, then the cat has to run or climb there, on a climbing wall, on a scratching post, or on a bookshelf redesigned for the cat (13'50 '') [web08]
-- First you should play a hunt with the cat, and then let it eat - this corresponds to the natural behavior of cats in the wild: "first they hunt, then they eat" (13'42'') [web08]
-- With an imprisoned domestic cat in a flat or house, the person is the play partner, is the play partner substitute (8'20'') [web08]
-- You should give or hide the food by playing [simulating a hunt] [web04]

Play food hunting: what
-- The food must be varied, otherwise there will be deficiency symptoms, so you should change the food brand or the type of meat from time to time (20'0'') [web08]

-- With food boards ("fumbling boards") you can encourage the cat to look for the prey where the dry food is hidden, or you can distribute toilet rolls with small portions of dry  food in the apartment, then the cat constantly searches the apartment where some food could be hidden (17'28'') [web08]


3. Food games on the ground: vary feeding behavior (imitation of mouse hunting on the ground)

-- Cats like to hunt or lurk [and like to find food in hiding places] [web07]
-- In nature outside the food of a cat (mouse) is never in the same place, so you should not always put the food bowl in the same place in the apartment [web07]
-- With the cat fishing rod on the ground you can imitate a fleeing mouse, imitating noises, this stimulates the cat to natural hunting behavior [web07]

-- Throw food (dry food chips) [web03]
-- Buy a feeding board ("fumbling board"): Buy a feeding board with variations on how the food is given: small glasses, pens, waves, small basins, so the cat moves [web03]
-- Buy a feeding board with openings with sliding doors where the food comes in [web07]
-- Make your own feeding board with a cardboard as a base and stick whatever you can find on it: egg cartons, small boxes, toilet rolls in various heights etc. [web03]
-- Throw the food somewhere so that the cat has to jump after the food, the cat stays fit and this is also a training for the sniffing organ [web03]
-- Make search games with food [web04]
-- Use a food ball that only has a small hole where the dry food comes out [web04]
-- Kitchen roll tube folded on one side, then cut openings in the sides and fill the roll with dry flakes and the search game starts [web05]
-- Make a food pyramid made of toilet rolls to hide the food in it promoting the search instinct [web06]
-- Food board with dry food (is also called: fumble board, activity board, snack labyrinth, food labyrinth): the cat has to play for its food, this promotes cat intelligence + curiosity + the cat can occupy itself alone [web06]
-- Food board: you can put vitamin pastes in the small openings, which the cat has to lick out [web06]
-- At the beginning you have to show the cat how the food board works and where to look for it, and when the cats have found out how the food board works, they are "crazy" about it [web06]
-- Food game: there is a food tree to buy (snack tree, snack maze tree): The dry flakes are put in at the top and the cat has to push the flake down through the holes all levels [web06]
-- Feeding board for individual placement of objects+obstacles [web06]
-- Feeding boards can be washed in the dishwasher [web06]
-- Feeding game: Feeding board made of muffin tray with round cardboard lids over it [web06]
-- Feeding game: Feeding pyramid made from toilet rolls [web06]
-- Feeding game: take a small box and install toilet rolls vertically in it and put some food flakes in it [web06]


4. Set up climbing facilities - encourage climbing (imitation of bird hunting on trees)
-- Set up a scratching post [web03]
-- Make games on the scratching post [web03]
-- Create viewpoints and tree landscapes on a wall, install a viewpoint on a cupboard and on shelves, cats love the overview [web04]

Set up climbing facilities
-- Install a tree landscape with trays, shelves, cat ladder, fix branches between shelves, install a little basket for a viewpoint [web07]
-- Cats should have enough climbing opportunities with viewing platforms and hiding places [web07]
-- Set up a scratching post near a cupboard, so the cupboard's high surface becomes a cat paradise [web07]
-- With each new level, the cat's territory expands and the cat enjoys it [web07]
-- Cats love viewing areas near windows [web07]
-- Some change in a room with furniture is always interesting for cats, the cat furniture should not stay at the same spot for years [web07]

Climbing and imitating bird hunting on a tree
-- Well, the climbing effort before eating also corresponds to the natural behavior [when wild cats hunt birds in trees] (14'10 '') [web08]
-- You can imitate the search for food: distribute the dry food (flakes) on the climbing wall (13'0'') [web08]
-- Setting up food bowls at height is not so practical because they can fall down (13'3'') [web08]

Set up scratching materials
-- There are different scratching furniture for cats [web07]
-- Install scratching posts for climbing [web07]
-- Use different scratching materials: Scratching post, sisal carpet on the floor / on the wall / on the shelf [web07]
-- Scratching furniture, scratching garbage cans, scratching boards, pieces of wood [web07]

Create vantage points
-- Cats also rest for a long time to save energy, but then they can run wide awake and with all their energy [cats in nature are looking for pray staying in vantage points and then they jump down and catch the pray] (9'40'') [web08]


5. Drinking opportunity
-- The cause of death in cats is often kidney failure, which is caused by a wrong drinking offer, because the cat drinks too little when the food bowl is right next to the water bowl (8'41 '') [web08]
-- For cats, the eating and and the drinking opportunity should never be placed next to each other, because this never happens in nature, then cats drink too little [web06]
-- The drinking opportunity should never be next to the food bowl, the best is a little drinking fountain with running water somewhere else in the room / flat / house, then cats drink the most [web05]
[-- a dripping tap is also a drinking possibility for every cat]
-- if the water point is somewhere else, the cat drinks more because that corresponds more to nature, and a small cat drinking fountain is an even better as an imitation of nature [small, flowing creek] and the cat drinks even more (8'51'') [web08]


6. Cats locked in the same daily life become depressed and fat

Depressed domestic cats that are not kept in a species-appropriate way:
-- When cats are locked indoors [like a prison], they are bored and when you never play with the cats, cats become destructive and scratch people, chase the feet of walking people, etc. [web07]
-- Domestic cats lack the dangers of life, there is no urge to look for food, there are no territorial fights (4'26'') [web08]
-- Depressive cats scratch the wallpaper, scratch the sofa, or do not sleep through the night and keep the owners awake (2'5'') [web08]
-- Cats become depressed by boredom, or they become depressed by inappropriate food (2'14'') [web08]
-- When the food is always at the same time in the same place, that's boring for cats, that's not species-appropriate, they get depressed and lazy [web07]
-- The food bowl is boring, should be reduced [web04]
-- Cats that are not allowed to go outside become depressed and as a change they love the food tray and games [web06]
-- Domestic cats can never hunt and have access to food 24 hours a day, that's boring [web06]
-- The behaviors of a cat are: Hunting instinct, territory behavior, defending territory, sex drive and reproduction (5'10'') [web08]
-- Neutering with a castration minimizes the territorial behavior and the sex drive, but the hunting instinct remains until old age, wild cats hunt 12 hours a day, a free-range house cat hunts about 3 hours a day, in an apartment as a cage the cat does not hunt at all (6'0 '') [web08]
-- The game with the cat is therefore the only hunting imitation of a caged cat (6'9'') [web08]
-- Foraging (looking for food) and hunting is normal and extremely exciting for every cat, but if you always give a caged cat the food in the same place with the clock, that's boring for the cat (9'25 '') [web08]
-- The cat is reducing itself (atrophies) [becomes a crip]: If the hunt in the apartment before eating is omitted, the cat only sleeps and lies curled up all day long, and then the cat no longer moves, crippling of muscles and back are developing (atrophy), the climbing possibilities of the cat are crippling (10'10'') [web08]
-- If there is always food, the cat eats too much, the stomach is constantly constipated, that is not species-appropriate (13'23'') [web08]
-- Boredom makes cats physically and mentally ill, because that is absolutely not species-appropriate (11'53'') [web08]
-- The claim that cats are "habitual animals" is an absolute lie, because the genetics of a cat is exactly different: every day is different, every hunt is different (14'35'') [web08]
-- Cats sleep at night, cats are NOT nocturnal like other predators, that means: If cats cannot sleep at night, then they simply move far too little during the day, they are not fully utilized (15'8'') [web08]
-- The cat no longer moves, no longer has to hunt (17'0'') [web08]
-- Cat owners without brain always give the same food at the same time, just because it is more comfortable for THEM, but for the cat this is not good and does not suit it at all (18'31'') [web08]

Change the cat to a hunting behavior
-- The changeover can take place step by step, because a depressed, bored cat does not switch to natural hunting behavior from one day to the next (18'46'') [web08]


7. More games
-- Play hide and seek with calling and the cat finds the caller [web03]


8. Training of behavior
-- Use for the training of the cat a clicker stick for gymnastics (e.g. begging like a dog) and always give some food afterwards (dry flakes) [web05]
-- Use for the training of the cat a training stick with click signal, so you can signal a reward with a click [web07]
-- Cats like to listen to people, they really build relationships through voices [web07]


9. Install hiding places
-- Small cat cave can be made from half a cardboard box with a T-shirt pulled over it [web05]


10. Balcony or garden
-- A secured balcony is a highlight for the cat [web07]
-- A garden is a highlight for the cat [web07]
-- In winter it forms the winter coat when the cat has contact with the outside [web07]
-- Put several cat toilets in different places [web07]


11. Walking with cats - the cat leash
-- on the leash [web07]
-- the cat gets to know smells, noises and temperatures outside, which are not present in the apartment [web07]
-- in the cat carrier [web07]


12. Several adult cats do NOT play with each other
-- Several adult cats do NOT chase each other (6'20'') [web08]
-- Several human children play with each other and play predator and police with childlike hunting, but several adult cats in a group do NOT do this, one must not "humanize" the cat (6'25'') [web08]
-- Small cats like to play a simulated hunt to improve their skills, because within one year they have to be perfect hunters: during a cat's childhood [the first year when the little cats get milk from their mother's cat], the little cats are playing with each other learning and bettering their hunting abilities (6'44'') [web08]
-- Several [ADULT] cats hardly or NOT play with each other but they are all bored if you don't play with them, because playing is always about hunting (7'17'') [web08]
-- So it is NOT possible that [adult] cats [from 1 year] hunt each other, because then one cat would be the prey of the other, but BOTH cats want to hunt and be the winner of a small prey (7'45'') [web08]


13. What cats eat
-- Dry food is generally NOT healthy for the cat, and laying out dry food all day long does not correspond to the natural cat life at all, but the cat becomes sluggish and lazy (16'43'') [web08]


14. Cleaning work
-- Remove cat hair: go over the furniture with a lint brush [web05]


15. Enemies of cats
-- Cats are "quite small predators", which means that they can also become victims of large predators such as pit bulls (7'59'') [web08]

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Sources

Playing with Cats with ribbon (Indon. / ENGL subtitles)
Video: bermain dengan kucing yatim (1'55'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HxPrQltGg - YouTube channel: oren telon - installed on June 27, 2022
[web01]

  
Cat playing with ribbon [1]

 

Play with cats with hanging ring (ESP)
Video: cómo jugar y carisiar a un gato (2'27'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L7eSQZKO5M - YouTube channel: Jair Crespo Ramos - installed on April 18, 2021
[web02] 

  
Cat playing with a hanging ring [2]

 

Games with cats: string - cat fishing rod - scratching post - food board - throwing food - playing hide and seek (D)
Video: Keeping cats busy - 6 ideas (7'26'')
(GERMAN orig.: Video: Katzen sinnvoll beschäftigen - 6 Ideen (7'26'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtWGS6Xgi4 - YouTube channel: rund-um-die-katz - installed on May 27, 2020
[web03]

  
Cat fishing rod / cat rustle homemade with a stick and a cut chip bag [3]

 

 

-- Awaken the cat's hunting instinct
-- Play with a string
-- Play with a cat fishing rods [cat rustle] that are rustling [like when a mouse moves in the leaves]
-- Play with a cat fishing rod [cat rustle] and make it disappear behind a box or under a cloth
-- Build your own cat fishing rod with a stick and a cut chip bag fixed on the stick with a tape
-- Playing on the scratching post keeps the cat fit
-- Food board with variations on how the food is given: in small glasses, pens, waves, small basins, so the cat must move
-- Make your own food board with a cardboard as a base and stick anything small on it: egg cartons, small boxes, toilet rolls in various heights, etc.
-- Throw the dry food flakes somewhere so that the cat has to jump after the food, the cat stays fit and trains its sniffing organ
-- Play hide and seek with calls and the cat finds the caller


Games with cats:
Viewpoints - tree landscapes - search games with food - scent catnip - food ball - reduce food bowl - simulate a prey with cat tail rustling - simulate a prey with cat tail under a blanket - let the cat win in the end
Video: 4 tips for keeping cats busy | Play & Train (3'53'')
(orig. German: Video: 4 Tipps zum Beschäftigen von Katzen | Spielen & Trainieren (3'53'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op_vOwe--Ag - YouTube channel: Fressnapf - installed on Nov 21, 2017
[web04]

2 cats on a cat tree enjoying a beautiful view [4]

 

-- Install viewing areas, buy high cat trees, create viewing areas with cupboards and shelves, they like to have an overview
-- Create board landscapes and tree landscapes
-- Cats like spiritual mind games and search games: scatter some dry cat food flakes somewhere where the cat has to look for it
-- Stimulate all the senses of the cat: The scent of catnip animates every cat
-- Food ball: use a food ball where the food only comes out of a small hole
-- Reduce the food in the bowl and let the cat move for the food
-- Strengthen the hunting instinct: Simulate a prey animal with a rustle stick, then move the stick in front of the cat's nose
-- Strengthen the hunting instinct: Move the rustle stick under a blanket and make the cat curious
-- Let the cat win in the end, i.e. the cat should get the prey at the end (ball, wool ball, dry flakes etc.)


Cat tips for the apartment (D):
Fluff brush - cardboard kitchen roll - clicker stick - drinking fountain - small ball made of aluminum - cat cave made of cardboard+T-shirt
Video: CATS LIFE HACKS || 6 ingenious DIY's tips & tricks and DIY toys - German - CUISINI (3'53'')

(orig. German: Video: KATZEN LIFE HACKS || 6 geniale DIY's Tipps & Tricks und Spielzeug selber machen - deutsch - CUISINI (3'53'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPKmR2zVMA - YouTube channel: CUISINI - installed on Oct 30, 2016
[web05]

  
Cat toy: aluminum ball made of aluminum foil makes cats running [5]

 

-- Remove cat hair: go over the furniture with a lint brush
-- Giving food: Close one side of a kitchen roll tube, install holes into the sides and fill the tube with dry flakes and the search game starts
-- Education with a clicker stick: use a clicker stick for training some behavior of the cat, e.g. begging like a dog, and always give some food afterwards as a reward
-- Drinking opportunity should not be placed next to the food, and preferably there should be a little electric drinking fountain [simulating a little creek] with running water, then cats drink the most
-- A small ball made of aluminum foil is the fastest ball for a cat's play ever [one can suppose: because it's glittering]
-- Small cat cave can be made from half a cardboard box with a T-shirt over it


Cat tips for the home (D)
Food pyramid - feeding board - playing 2x daily is the minimum - setting up drinking separately - feeding box with toilet rolls
Indoor Cat Properly Busy / Cat Toys and DIY for Cats & Baby Cats / Amely Rose (14'43'')
(orig. German: Wohnungskatze richtig beschäftigen / Katzenspielzeug und DIY für Katzen & Babykatzen / Amely Rose (14'43'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591B2ny4ASY - YouTube channel: Amely Rose - installed on Aug 19, 2021
[web06]

     
Cat: Giving food on a feeding board (fiddling board) with different containers [6a] - Cat food in a roll box [6b] - cat food in a roll pyramid [6c]

 

-- Cats love to search for food, it's a natural instinct [in nature, cats are searching for mice on the ground or they are catching birds in trees].
-- Make a food pyramid made of paper rolls and scotch to hide the dry food (chips) in and encourage the search instinct
-- Food board with dry food (this is also called: fumble board, activity board, snack labyrinth, food labyrinth): the cat has to play for its food, this promotes cat intelligence + curiosity + the cat can occupy itself alone
-- Feeding board: you can put vitamin pastes in the small openings, which the cat has to lick out
-- At the beginning you have to show the cat how the food tray works and where to look, and when the cats have found out how the food tray works, they are "crazy" about it
-- Cats that are not allowed to go outside become depressed and love the food tray and games for a change
-- Playing with the cat twice a day for 10 minutes is the minimum

-- Food game: there exists a food tree (snack tree, snack maze tree): The dry flakes are put in at the top and the cat has to push the flake down through the holes every level
-- Food board for individual placement of objects + obstacles
-- Food boards can be washed in the dishwasher
-- Domestic cats can never hunt and have 24-hour access to food, and this is very boring for cats

-- Never place eating and drinking next to each other, because this never happens in nature and cats will drink too little
-- Cats should be fed 3 times a day, maximum 8 hours apart
-- Food should never be presented all day long

-- Feeding game: do it yourself: compose a food board made from a muffin tin with round cardboard lids over it
-- Feeding game: do it yourself: build a feeding pyramid out of loo rolls and sticky tape
-- Feeding game: do it yourself: fill a shoe box with toilet rolls and meat sticks inside


Diversifying cat life in an apartment - Amely Rose
Installing tree landscapes on a wall for cats - food board with sliders - education rod with click signal
Video: 8 SUPER Tips for Happy Indoor Cats / Cat Tips with Amely Rose / Indoor Cat (13'54'')
(original German: Video: 8 SUPER Tipps für glückliche Wohnungskatzen / Katzen Tipps mit Amely Rose / Indoor Cat (13'54'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xziC5eE6QLQ - YouTube channel: Amely Rose - installed on Sep 27, 2022
[web07] 

    

Cat in the apartment: Tree landscape fixed on a room wall with a high seat "beautiful view" [7a] - Cat giving food with a food board with sliding doors [7b]
 

 

Cats want to solve problems, you have to set them tasks
-- Cats like to solve problems because they are constantly solving problems outside, such as looking for food, finding their way home, defending their territory, searching their territory several times a day, etc.
-- Cats in nature get always stimuli to solve problems
-- If cats are locked up indoors [like in a prison], they are bored, and when you then never play with the cats, cats become destructive and scratch people, chase the feet of walking people, etc.
-- Adding one new element once a week is interesting for the cat

Vary food
-- Cats like to chase or lurk
-- In nature outside, a cat's food [mouse or bird] is never in the same place, so you should not always put the food bowl in the same place in the apartment either
-- If the food is always in the same place at the same time, cats get bored, it is not species-appropriate, they become depressed and lazy
-- Buy a food board with openings with sliding doors where the food can go in

Play hunting with the cat
-- Use a cat fishing rod to imitate a fleeing mouse, imitate noises, this stimulates the cat's natural hunting behavior
-- Play a round of hunting with the cat before feeding, 3 times a day is good, then the cat moves a lot and it also expects you to play with it and will be always fit

Training behavior
-- Use a training stick with click signal, so you can signal a reward with a click
-- Cats like to listen to people, build relationships hearing the different voices

Climbing opportunities
-- Install trays, shelves, cat ladder, fix branches between shelves, attach basket at a height as a viewing platform
-- Cats should have enough climbing opportunities with viewing platforms and hiding places
-- Place the scratching post near a cupboard to turn the cupboard surface into a cat paradise
-- With each new level, the cat's territory expands, which is fun for the cat
-- A viewing area by the window is particularly popular with cats
-- Rearranging or moving the furniture is always interesting for cats, the cat furniture should not stay the same for years

Scratching materials
-- There are various types of scratching furniture
-- Install scratching posts for climbing
-- Use different scratching materials: scratching post, sisal rug on the floor / wall / shelf
-- Install different scratching options: scratching furniture, scratching garbage cans, scratching boards, pieces of wood

Balcony or garden
-- a secured balcony is a highlight for the cat
-- a garden is a highlight for the cat
-- in winter comes the winter coat when the cat has contact with outside
-- put several toilet boxes in different places

Walking with cats in nature
-- on a leash
-- the cat makes experience with smells, sounds, temperatures
-- in a cat pram


Keeping and feeding cats correctly with food games (D)
Imitate food game hunting - cats in groups do NOT play - enemy pit bull - play impulse - vary food bowl - food game in the evening longest - food hunt usually at dawn or dusk - dry food is not the best
When cat food makes sick / How to feed cats properly / Cat tips food - Amely Rose (20'21'')
(orig. German: Wenn Katzenfutter krank macht / Wie wie füttert man Katzen richtig / Katzentipps Futter - Amely Rose (20'21'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcHDswqK-4 - YouTube channel: Amely Rose - installed on aug 9, 2022
[web08]

          

Cat sleeps contracted [8a] - Cat gets food on a feeding board [8b] - Cat on a cat ladder on a room wall with a cat tree [8c] - Domestic cat outside hunting 3 hours, wildcats 10 hours per day [8d]

 

Caged cats become depressed
-- Depressive cats scratch the wallpaper, the sofa, or do not sleep through and keep the owners awake (2'5 '')
-- Boredom and wrong, not species-appropriate food are the cause (2'14'')

The food game with the imitation of hunting
-- Important is HOW the food is given, not necessarily what (3'20'')
-- Domestic cats are missing the dangers of life, there is no urge to look for food, there are no territorial fights (4'26'')
-- The behaviors of a cat are: hunting instinct, territorial behavior, defending the territory, sex drive and reproduction (5'10'')
-- Castrations minimize the territorial behavior and the sex drive, but the hunting instinct remains until old age, wild cats hunt 12 hours a day, a free-range house cat hunts about 3 hours a day, a caged house cat [in prison] does not hunt at all (6'0'')
-- Therefore, the game with the cat is the only hunting imitation of a caged cat (6'9'')
-- Cats hunt small animals [mice on the ground and birds by climbing on the tree] (6'15'')

Several adult cats do NOT play with each other
-- Several adult cats do NOT chase each other (6'20'')
-- Several human children play with each other and play predator and police with childlike hunting, but several adult cats in a group do NOT do this, do not "humanize" the cat (6'25'')
-- Small kitten, they like to play a simulated hunt to improve their skills playing with each other [when they get the mother's milk yet], but from one year on as an adult cat, they have to be perfect hunters (6'44'')
-- A wild cat hunts 10 hours a day, and this energy for hunting is in every cat (7'0'')
-- Several adult cats hardly or NOT play with each other but are all bored if you do not play with them, because playing is always about hunting: the hunting ability is improved (7'17'')
-- So it is impossible that [adult] cats [from 1 year on] will playing hunting each other, because an adult cat would be the prey of the other, but BOTH cats want to hunt and be the winner of a small prey (7'45'')

Enemies of cats
-- Cats are "quite small predators", which means that they can also become victims of large predators such as pit bulls (7'59'')

Playing food hunt
-- When a cat is locked up in a home as a domestic cat [in prison], the human is the play partner, is the play partner substitute (8'20'')
-- Causes of death in cats: kidney failure is caused by an incorrect drinking offer because the cat drinks too little if the water bowl is next to the food bowl (8'41'')
-- If the water source is somewhere else, the cat drinks more because that corresponds more to the natural conditions, and a little electric drinking fountain is an even better imitation of nature [small flowing creek] and the cat drinks even more (8'51 '')
-- Foraging and hunting is normal and extremely exciting for every cat, but if you always give a caged cat the food in the same place with the human clock, the cat is bored (9'25'')
-- Cats also rest for a long time to save energy, but then they can run wide awake and with all their energy [in nature, the cat is controlling the region if there is a pray, then jumps down for catching the pray] (9'40'')
-- Normally cats have to catch a prey, but when the hunt in the apartment is omitted, then the cat no longer moves and muscles and back are crippling (atrophy), the climbing possibilities are reducing / atrophy [are crippling] (10'10'')
-- Feeding must therefore be a hunting game and a search game, then one has imitated the hunt and the cat moves in a species-appropriate way (10'33'')

-- The daily hunting game with the cat is essential, there must always be the impulse from outside (11'6'')
-- Cats do not play by themselves, they do not feel fun on their own, but only play when the hunting benefit is behind it (11'14'')
-- Important is the variation of the food, the time, the food place (11'38'')
-- Boredom makes cats physically and mentally ill, because that is absolutely not species-appropriate [a cat is not a trout] (11'53'')
-- Different games with the cat are therefore different hunting strategies of the cat, cats lurk or hunt, the toy must move like the prey (12'44'')
-- You can imitate the search for food: distribute the food on the climbing wall (13'0'')
-- Setting up a food bowl at height is not so practical because it can fall down (13'3'')
-- You shouldn't give too much food, because in nature a cat can't manage more than 5 mice a day, so a maximum of 5 small meals a day is enough (13'13'')
-- If the food is constantly presented, the cat eats too much, the stomach is constantly clogged, and that is not species-appropriate (13'23'')

Searching for food = play impulse
-- The fun of looking for food is the impulse to play more with objects (13'32'')
-- First hunting is played, and then comes the food - this corresponds to the natural behavior of cats in the wild: "first they hunt, then they eat" (13'42'')

Vary the food bowl
-- You can always put the food bowl somewhere else, in front of the cat's eyes, even in distant places, then the cat has to run or climb there, on a climbing wall, on a scratching post, or on a bookshelf redesigned for the cat (13'50'')
-- So the climbing effort before eating also corresponds to natural behavior [when wild cats hunt birds in trees] (14'10'')
-- The claim that cats are "habitual animals" is an absolute lie, because the genetics of a cat is exactly the other way round: every day is different, every hunt is different (14'35'')

Food play longest in the evening
-- In the evening before going to bed you should play with the cat the longest and then feed it, so that the cat is tired and sleeps well (15'0'')
-- Cats sleep at night, cats are NOT nocturnal like some other predators, which means: If cats cannot sleep at night, then they simply don't move enough during the day, they are not using their full capacity (15'8'')

Foraging mostly at dawn in the morning or at dusk in the evening
-- "Cats are crepuscular", and the statement that they would be "habitual animals" is not true (15'19'')
-- Free cats hunt in the early morning and in late evening, so always in the twilight in the morning or in the evening (15'25'')
-- In the morning you should also play with the cat before feeding, so do NOT feed it immediately, and: the cat prefers to eat at dawn or dusk and does not follow a certain time of a human clock (15'52'')
-- During the day you should not feed much at all, the cat reports with activity when it is hungry, then you should play a little hunt with the cat and only feed it after the game, this is the species-appropriate feeding, as it also happens in cat life in nature (16'11'')
-- No matter if outdoor cat, indoor cat, neutered, multi-cat household, the feeding should always be proceded like this (16'17'')

Dry food as a game, but not as a main dish
-- Dry food is generally NOT healthy for the cat, and presenting dry food all day long does not correspond to the natural cat life at all, but the cat becomes sluggish and lazy (16'43'')
-- The cat no longer moves, no longer has to hunt (17'0'')
-- This can be compensated with food boards ("fumbling boards"), where the dry food is somewhat hidden, or you can distribute toilet rolls with small portions of dry food in the apartment, then the cat constantly searches the apartment where some food could be hidden and is moving much around (17'28 '')
-- The hunting game before feeding is "a must", the house cat should chase the game rod (17'40'')
-- Distribute the food throughout the day and do not feed the cat full, do not overfeed (17'54'')
-- Never always feed at the same time and in the same place [because in nature it is never like that] (17'59'')
-- Cat owners without head always give the same food at the same time, just because it is more convenient, but this is not good for the cat and does not suit it at all (18'31'')
-- The education for a changeover can take place step by step, because a depressed, bored cat does not switch to natural hunting behavior from one day to the next (18'46'')
-- So the cat is happy when the cat owners distribute the food irregularly and then they can search and find it: "I distribute a snack there" (18'54 '')
-- The food must be varied, otherwise there will be deficiency symptoms, so you should change the brand of food or the type of meat from time to time (20'0'')


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