Why do cats like to rub around?
Do your cat like to rub around?
Brushing against the corners of the wall, rubbing the black...
Brushing against humans, rubbing the poop shovelers with hair...
Brushing against everything in the house, leaving traces of his father everywhere...
Why do cats love to rubbish so much?
This is actually related to cats' scent marks...
Cats are animals that rely heavily on smell to perceive the world. They obtain information through smelling, and at the same time express information by leaving odor signals, which is the "pheromones" we often refer to.
Cats can leave behind "pheromones" that belong to them through the odor glands and urination on the face, soles of the feet, perianal anus, genitals and surrounding areas.
Different "pheromones" have different meanings, just like cats have "notes" of different meanings, and they "post" a picture wherever they go. They can communicate with other cats, and then they can recall their feelings at that time when they look back.
For cats who like familiarity + strong sense of territory, making the entire territory full of their own taste is a sense of happiness jio~
So in order to make all places labeled, cats have many "meanings"...
As a shoveler, you must have seen the following behaviors, but you may not notice that this is marking...
The most direct way is to rub around. The head and face are places where cats have dense smell glands, so they like to rub them with their heads.
Some areas are too large, such as floors and bed sheets. Cats may roll directly to get the smell of TA!
Of course, in addition to gentle rubbing, cats also have a slightly more violent way of marking - scratching.
Cats in the wild will scratch the bark, while domestic cats may leave scratches on cat scratch boards/posts, sofas, door frames, curtains, and carpets.
The cat's soles glands secrete cat's intertotal pheromone (FIS), which will prompt the cat to repeatedly scratch the place where the TA has caught to deepen the mark...
Behavior 3: Fat/urination
This is the "heaviest" marking behavior...
Normally, the feces/urination in the cat's litter box is a odor mark.
In addition, cats will also have "urinary marking" behavior, using urine specifically to leave their pheromones, such as in estrus.
Some cats will squeeze the anal glands when they poop due to stress, and put a layer of "anal gland fluid" buff to pull out the "scented piaoshi" marker...
Tag behavior is the nature of cats, and we should respect them, but sometimes it is really "annoying" to mark cats everywhere. So how do we correctly guide cats to achieve harmony between humans and cats?
How to reasonably meet the needs of cat odor marking?
The way to help is simple - make the "cat smell stronger" at home!
Because textiles can better retain the smell of cats, we can put some soft textiles in every location of our home, such as mats/blankets, clothes, etc.
Cats can lie on these textiles and play with them, leaving a message "I am very happy, I am very familiar with here." The longer the cat stays, the more severe the precipitated smell.
Rational arrangement of items that cats can scratch
Cat scratching columns/boards can allow cats to leave a double mark of smell + vision by scratching.
The position should be appropriate. Do not place the cat's column/board in a corner where no one goes, but in an area where there are people moving. Cats prefer to use it.
In terms of material, each cat has different preferences, you can purchase several more to try.
Cat scratching board or cat scratching pillar, which one is the true love of cats?
Slowly transition to cats' love objects
Some shovelers want to throw away the bad ones immediately after seeing the cat's scratching board being scratched by the cat, and replace them with a new one for their beloved cat. In fact, TA doesn't like you to do this.
To change cats, you need to slowly transition. First let new things come in. After the cat is familiar with it, then gradually replace them.
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Just like when the Yaojiu family changes the cat board...
In addition to daily needs, we can also take advantage of the nature of cats...
We understand the needs of cat odor marking, and in life we can better help cats adapt to the environment from this aspect.
Use the "cat smell" to reduce cat anxiety
When cats are going out to the hospital and have to stay in the air box for a while, the above-mentioned small blankets stained with "cat smell" can come in handy.
Items full of familiarity will bring a sense of security to the cat and reduce the cat's anxiety.
Remove the fear of pheromones left by cats
Use the "cat smell" to integrate into
In multiple cat families, there has been a situation where the cat went home and was rejected by other cats after the cat shoveler took the cat out for medical treatment.
It is recommended that the shoveler can use the home-like blankets that are stained with cats at home to remove the strange smell.
When the cat owner secretly sucks the cat outside or a stranger comes to his home, he can also try this method to get familiar with the cat faster.
