Understand Your Cat's Behavior and How to Manage Them

Is your cat having behavioral problems at home? Many issues that we see in cats are related to their overall territorial and predatory nature. This can result in destructive or even dangerous behaviors in the house. Today we are going to talk about the underlying instincts of cats and some of the resulting behavioral issues. I'm also going to discuss some practical solutions that you can use in your household! I have outlined the chapter sections below so feel free to skip around! :) A special thanks to Squanch for showing off her play behavior and to Alfalfa for showing off the tapetum!! If your cat is urinating outside of the box, make sure to check out my other video at    • Causes for Inappropriate Cat Urination  | ...   for more guidance! Similarly, if your cat is pooping outside of the box, make sure to check out my litter box episode at    • The Best Way to Pick Cat Litter Boxes | Be...  . My hope is to help make reliable information more available and accessible for pet owners, so if you have any topics that you would like me to talk about, please let me know in the comments below! 00:00 Intro 02:07 Predatory Instinct Factors 08:36 Territorial Instinct Factors 14:54 Environmental Stressors 19:41 Practical Solutions 28:35 Feline Idiopathic Cystitis 33:33 Summary For more information, check out the links below! Simulating the Evolution of Aggression    • Simulating the Evolution of Aggression   The Taming of the Cat https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Cornell Feline Health Center: Feline Vision Problems https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departmen... Feline High Rise Syndrome: 119 Cases https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... Play Aggression https://www.sfspca.org/resource/play-... Current Research in Canine and Feline Pheromones https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Feline House Soiling: Elimination and Marking Behaviors https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b496... Substrate Selection for Urine Spraying in Captive Wildcats https://www.originalwisdom.com/wp-con... Clinical Trial of a Feline Pheromone Analogue for Feline Urine Marking https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/... To Scratch or Not to Scratch https://www.michiganpetfund.org/wp-co... Over-grooming Cats https://www.mspca.org/angell_services... Cat Enrichment https://www.pascocountyfl.net/Documen... Common Feline Problem Behaviors: Destructive Scratching https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/... Thinking Outside the Box: Feline Elimination https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/... A case of recurrent feline idiopathic cystitis: The control of clinical signs with behavior therapy https://www.gwern.net/docs/catnip/200... Feline Idiopathic Cystitis (FIC) https://icatcare.org/advice/feline-id... (FIC) Feline Idiopathic Cystitis http://follyroadanimalhospital.com/wp... Cat Unique Features - Cats International https://catsinternational.org/categor...