Not every cat gets sick from milk, and if yours is one of the milk loving kitties , then check with us. It may be possible for you to give an occasional treat.
Bear in mind that milk contains calories water has none so do keep it minimal. Obesity has serious health implications for cats. Better treats for cats include small tastes of tuna or other animal-derived protein. As you may know, cats have specific nutritional protein-based requirements that their bodies are better designed to handle than milk. Are you surprised by that most cats are lactose intolerant?
Many people are surprised. It's always a good idea discuss your pet's diet with your veterinarian to make sure you're not inadvertently feeding your cat something that can make her sick. Your veterinarian can make recommendations for the best cat food for your cat. They do indeed vary in how inquisitive they are — a few are bold enough to approach novel situations, but most are generally much more circumspect, choosing instead to inspect anything unfamiliar from a safe distance.
Biologists now consider that character traits like these are akin to human personalities and are common to many animals, not just cats. It seems that when resources such as food are scarce, bold animals do better than timid ones because they get to eat first. However, being timid when approaching food also means that an animal is less likely to end up as a meal for a predator.
This is how both personality types persist in a species. Quite why this was then considered notable is unclear, but veterinary science is now rediscovering the truth behind it. Stress can arise between cats in the same house, where the owner has unwittingly selected two that do not get along, or between cats in neighbouring houses fighting over a boundary between their respective territories.
Cats lack the sophisticated analysis of body-language that enables dogs to resolve such differences and can live in a state of conflict for months, even years, on end. Their owners control their breeding, feeding and care, just as with pedigree dogs, or for that matter, pigs and cattle. Their mothers were probably pets, but when the mating season came around usually January or February , they would have disappeared out through their cat-flaps and actively sought the attentions of as many males — tomcats — as they could find.
This means that many of them would have been ferals, un-owned cats that live on their wits, and are extremely wary of people. This behaviour has changed little during the course of domestication, confirming that moggies, at least, are still not fully domesticated animals. Moreover, this courtship provides a mechanism whereby domestic cats can continue to evolve — the relative persistence of the tomcats and the preferences of the queens for particular toms, both influence the characteristics of the next generation of kittens.
Domestic kittens are born to learn how to interact with people, but if they are deprived of human company for the first two months of their lives, they become wary of humans in general. They can adopt a feral lifestyle, scrounging or scavenging for their food. On the other hand, if feral kittens are discovered before they reach the critical age of two months, and they are carefully introduced to people, they can quickly become indistinguishable from any pet cat.
Cats are therefore still capable of moving in and out of domestication within a couple of generations, something no fully domesticated animal can do. Your moggie probably has a wild side. Scientists are divided as to whether any animal, other than us, has the ability to realise that the animals around them have minds at all. For example, during a conversation we unconsciously choose our words carefully to get our message across, because we are able to imagine what the other person is likely to be thinking as we are speaking to them.
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