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Cats and 9 Lives

Cats having nine lives is one of the more popular references ascribed to cats, with many children getting confused with the nine lives connection.

The title of a hit comic strip cat’s movie The Nine Lives of Fritz The Cat which came out in 1974, the nine lives connection with cats is old, and pinpointing its exact origins is not all that easy.

However, the reason for the connection is defined by the cat’s natural physical ability to survive certain falls from high places or vantage points, safely landing on their feet as though it was nobody’s business. In fact, a cat has a better chance in falling from a higher place than from falling from a vantage point that isn’t as high.

In the past, a number of New York-based vets managed to collate data involving the number of kitty deaths caused or related to falls from high areas. The results note that 10% of cats falling from 2 to 6 storey buildings had died, while 5% of cats falling from 7 to 32 stories survived, though with injuries.

Physics and the cat’s ability to “umbrella” their fall’s descent is noted to be the reason why such a setup prevails. Since falling bodies accelerate by 22 miles per hour/per second, a higher distance fall allows the cat to curve up in “parachute-like stance”, which enables them to decrease the acceleration of their fall’s speed.

Apart from the cat’s ability to safely land on their feet, a cat getting out of tight spots is also attributed to be the reason for the nine lives adage.

Though the average cat’s lifespan can reach as high as 14 years, with certain records of cats living up to 20+ years, the nine lives of cats can’t be taken literally, but is an attribution that is worthy to be bequeathed to cats, all in all.

Cats and their homing instinct

Cats and their homing instincts have been the subject of a lot of research and investigation given the cat’s inherent ability to find his/her way home.

The 1993 remake of the 1960’s Disney classic Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, tells the tale of how two dogs and one cat got separated from their home, only to go on a cross county trek across America to find their way back.

Though Sassy, a snobby Himalayan cat, wasn’t the titular character of the trio in the movie, her presence in the story reinforces the theories surrounding the homing instincts of cats, dogs and birds.

One theory which links cats and their homing instincts touch up on the Earth’s magnetic fields, with cats senses capable of detecting minute magnetic metal particles. The theory suggests that the cat’s fore and hind paws can easily sense these magnetic particles, which they can use as references in finding their way home.

The story of a Persian named Howie is one that tells a lot about how the cat found his way home, with Howie crossing an estimated 1,000 miles in the Australian outback. Some human beings can’t even go far with that distance, let alone manage to navigate their way home.

However, the “conflict” pertaining to cats and their homing instinct contradicts with cats oftentimes getting themselves in tight spots. From being trapped in boxes or cabinets, to getting stuck in trees or worse, electric posts, there is still a lot to be learned regarding the cat’s senses and inherent unexplainable abilities pertaining to their homing instincts.

That, or maybe cat owners tend to be too overprotective with their cats.

Have you ever lost a cat? Did he/she find his/her way home?

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Cats and Dogs

Cats and Dogs by Warner Bros was an interesting movie, touching up on the “extremes” of the age-long “war” between cats and dogs.

Released in 2001, the movie did well in conveying the long-strained relationships between the world’s most popular domestic pets, and also did well in revealing that though they’ve been at wits ends with each other’s company, cats and dogs can still get along.

If you happen to be an arbiter in a “species war” in your home, here are some tips in helping your cat and dog get along.

The Introduction – As with the introduction of persons, this aspect is important with cats and dogs. Familiarity plays an important role, and gradually getting each used to each other is important.

There are really no fixed times or estimations pertaining to when cats and dogs have spent sufficient time getting familiar with each other, but it pays to be on guard over how they would react.

You can “rig” separate enclosures for each cat and dog, with either one of them still free to go about, but not necessarily encounter each other without any safeguards. From putting up door meshes, or allocating room space, supervised meet ups are also essential, until the two have become fairly accustomed with each other.

The key is not to outright put them in one room together. That’s just a recipe for disaster.

The Thing about Scents – given the keen sense of smell in cats and dogs, you can use scents as a means for getting them familiar with each other. One popular method is in rubbing a towel over a dog, then placing that near a cat, in there separate “rooms”, with the same activity done on the cat.

In certain cases, placing a “scented towel” near a cat and/or dog’s designated dish-bowl area associates their respective scents further.

Meetings in Installments – once a cat and dog are not liable to act up in each other’s company, after getting them familiar with each other and each other’s scents, you can then initiate supervised meet ups, with you taking note over how a cat and a dog would react.

These meet ups could run for a few minutes to a couple of hours, and should be done in installments until a time when a cat and dog don’t violently react to each other’s presence, until such a time when both cat and dog are tuned and familiar with each other.

Do well in giving these steps a go, and you won’t have to imagine your cat and dog waging a secret spy game under your nose.

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