What is your favorite Dog Breed?
I am a big fan of the Golden Retriever. Without question, it is the top dog breed. Goldens have a great personality and they are absolutely beautiful. I found the following picture at PupsForSale.net.
According to DDC Veterinary, Golden Retrievers are heavily muscled, with a dense coat and a heavily feathered tail. These highly-trainable sporting dogs have a confident, eager and alert personality - and need constant attention to be happy. Gentle and loving, the Golden Retriever makes a good family pet.
I want to know your favorite dog breed. Feel free to post links to pictures and videos of your favorite breed when you leave a comment. One vote for the Golden Retriever… let the debate begin.
What is your favorite Dog Breed?
Keep Your Cat From Scratching The Furniture
Every cat will paw and scratch at furniture unless there is an alternative area for him to use as a scratch pad. Unfortunately, that is just the way it is, cats must scratch something! When they are on the lookout for something to scratch, they will choose something sturdy that has an appealing texture to the surface. It must also be in convenient location for the cat. Chairs, couches, and carpeted staircases are great locations because a cat can get a real good stretch and the material allows him to dig his nails deep into the surface.
Cat scratching is an innate behavior and because of this, you cannot get your cat to stop the scratching by chasing him away, squirting water, hitting or scolding. Regardless of what you do, they will still need to scratch. Nothing will stop your cat. If you work to prevent it, your cat will find other convenient locations to use as his scratching post. He will also become more and more anxious.
Although your scolding actions to try stop the cat from scratching may work temporarily – because he scurries away – this is not the case. You may even be convinced that your cat “understands that he is being bad”, but unfortunately what is happening is that he now associates you as something to fear and creates anxiety. He runs away from you because your relationship is being damaged, and becoming “dysfunctional”, so to speak. Now what is happening is that every time your cat needs to scratch he will start to feel nervous and scared because this natural instinct is now connected with something “bad”.
What To Do
While you cannot stop your cat from scratching (why would you, it’s natural), you can indeed work to keep him from scratching furniture and other important areas. However, it takes two-fold approach to changing the behavior. You need an effective deterrent as well as a better alternative to training (as opposed to scolding techniques mentioned above). This way, you will be able to turn a negative into a positive while at the same time allowing your pet cats to partake in this very instinctual and satisfying behavior.
The deterrent should be in the form of a product called SSSCat. This training deterrent is a great way to keep cats off of counters, furniture, and other areas. It is a automatic odorless spray that is specifically made for this type of cat behavior.
The alternative scratching tool should be a cat-post that you can find in most pet stores. They come in all shapes and sizes so just choose one that would best suit your home.
The rest is up to your cat. You will be amazed that how little training is involved once this is set up. Try this out and let us know how it works with your cat.
Cat Massage
Have you ever received a massage from your cat?
I have… once. Most cats use their front paws to knead things. The couch, the bed sheets, whatever. Massimo has recently developed that habit of kneading my wives neck during the middle of the night. He will climb up by her head and knead her neck for about 10 minutes. I think he knows that she is stressed.
Cats are amazing animals. Ragdolls show amazing love and devotion to their owners. So I continue the Ragdoll charge.
How does your cat comfort you?
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