Cats – Welcome!

“The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and getting such independence of movement and action…the headstrong cat walks alone.”
– Desmond Morris (Zoologist), Author: Catwatching

Welcome Cat lovers! Whether you’re a lifelong cat guardian or just curious as a cat about our Feline brethren, here you’ll find information about their care, emotional lives, their fascinating history and the special bond that we humans have forged with them.

“The typical caricature of the cat as a solitary, selfish, cold killer is just that; a cartoon depicting only one aspect of a cat’s behavior – and a distorted one – based on cats living wild within a large territory. This stereotype does not address the cat’s remarkable flexibility in social adaptation, along with the very empathetic behavioral changes evident over the course of at least four thousand years of domestication by humans. Cats are, at the very least, complex creatures. Every day we’re learning something new about these ‘mysterious’, independent, remarkable felines.” – RA Conroy

Like Ms. Conroy, we here at The Pet CARE Pro are forever students, hence this gazette. We’re here to learn too, right along with you.

First, we need to set aside centuries of old dogma about animals.

The exponential changes over the decades in the fields of veterinary medicine, behavioral sciences, training techniques and nutrition can sometimes seem confusing, contradictory and by sheer volume, overwhelming to anyone, including the experts.

It’s a breathtaking, exciting time. We are standing at the crossroads of major sociological, evolutionary change; a paradigm shift of the highest order: one of the mind.

So, let’s meander with Tiger around the next bend and explore what’s new on the horizon…and unless you’re walking with your leashed Ragdoll baby, you may have to pick up your pace – most cats don’t care to wait around for we humans when the game is afoot!

The Pet CARE Pro recommends:

• Catwatching by zoologist and best selling author of The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris. An easy to read and indispensable book about why cats do the fascinating, wacky things they do.
• The Emotional Lives of Animals by award-winning professor and scientist, Marc Bekoff.