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Cats and Candy: Halloween Safety for Your Cat
With Halloween just around the bend, your family's probably looking forward to treats more than tricks. Those colorful, sugary delights can also be a temptation to your feline family members, but cats and candy can be a dangerous combination. For her safety, it's important to keep your kitty away from the candy stash.
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Safe Play Between Cats and Kids
Cats and kids make wonderful companions, but their interactions can be a recipe for disaster if children aren't taught how to play with cats. Cats have sharp claws and are ready to use them if they feel threatened or stressed, and kids, especially young ones, tend to enjoy the sort of loud noises and physical energy that cats find threatening or stressful.
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Mixing Cats and the Holidays
Cats and holidays sometimes mix about as well as oil and water. Aside from issues of cat safety, there's also potential for cats to either be ignored by busy families or become overstimulated by the festivities. In either case, kitties can become restless and anxious, which may result in undesirable behavior.
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Giving a Cat a Bath: A How-To Guide
Cats, especially curious kittens, can get into all sorts of messy and smelly situations as they explore their environment. They also have a well-known aversion to water. While it's certainly true that cats are excellent groomers, in certain stinky and sticky cases, bathing your cat can become necessary. It's can also be a great way to give her a healthy coat and healthy skin.
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Cat Training: How to Train Your Cat the Easy Way
When learning how to train your cat, you'll start with very basic first steps that both reward good behavior and discourage the bad. But can you train a cat the same way you might train a dog? Yes and no. Because they're highly independent animals, cats might appear aloof or uninterested in following your commands.
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