How it is frequent to you in a head the thought, what nerves of your cat not quite an order came? We love these small predators, we admire with them, sometimes, we worship to them. And they in reply to our love, leave pools in our new boots, a bathroom, on our favourite carpet. If we come home for 10 minutes later - they complain of the loneliness and on hunger, we give to them there are titbits - they turn away and pretend, that are absolutely full. They touchingly cry under a door if you do not start up them in the house, but can sit hours at a threshold. Choosing the moment. When at last it will be possible to jump out outside. Well as it is possible to speak with confidence about mental health similar beings!?

There can be you will calm down, if learn, that all cats all over the world and arrived at all times also. So before loudly to declare that your cat in last life was patient Freud or Lambrazo, we will try to understand its vision of the world a little.

It is necessary to tell, hundred modern knowledge about psychology of a cat extremely are not great. We do only the first steps to understanding of this familiar stranger, the foolish beauty, the whimsical child. Mystical the spirit accompanying cats, also draws to them our attention, forces to love all of them more and more. But sometimes it seems, that the love to them would deliver us more pleasures if we had not to clean their small groups from our fluffy carpets or to throw out the new leather suitcase marked with the harmful favourite.

Sense of smell

Let's talk about some obvious priorities in perception a cat of world around. One of such priorities - sense of smell. That for the person is only pleasant addition to perception of the world, for a cat - basic feeling. It allows to perceive world around, to learn familiar subjects and familiar places, friends and enemies.

Cats have improbable sense of smell. They can identify aroma of the cat's mint when its concentration does not exceed 1 part on billion! Kittens are born blind and deaf, but their sense of smell already sharply. Within one day after a birth, kittens can distinguish own house from any else. They easily distinguish own mother from any other cat, without problems find the "" nipple. The three-week kitten can find the nest on distance of one metre. But it is necessary to deprive of its sense of smell - and chances of success will not return to a nest at it. Even if in its field of vision there is mother.

Memory on smells

The world of smells is the world of a cat. Kittens very reluctantly get used to new smells, but similar changes adult cats even more do not love.

Nevertheless, if you want, that the adult cat was more tolerant to various aromas, it is necessary to accustom to them a small kitten. The kitten should understand, that in overwhelming majority of cases the smell is not dangerous and does not bear in itself obvious aggression. Similarly, if the small kitten has faced any smell which has done it harm, it will react extremely negatively to this smell if will face it in an adult life. For example, many cats extremely negatively concern to груммингу. They of all can be gentle and trustful an instant ago, but one whiff of cosmetics can transform them into furious animals to whom the owner cannot come nearer even. Therefore it is extraordinary important to accustom as soon as possible a cat to similar procedures and that is even more important, not to suppose at all that these procedures have caused negative emotions in a kitten.

Cognizance smell

The majority of us faced this problem. We will assume, you have brought one of your cats on an exhibition. Often happens, that after возращения the winner of an exhibition the warm reception from its friends of the house waits far not. Envy! - you be touched. Have not learnt! - the expert will answer. Other inhabitants of your nursery simply have not learnt the girlfriend as it has brought on herself smells of other cats and other people. They have simply apprehended it as absolutely unfamiliar cat. Do not trust the eyes, trust a scent, speaks all saved up by many generations of cats experience. Moreover, mothers-cats even can sometimes throw or is worse than that, to kill own kittens if they suddenly begin to smell somehow unusually.

Cards

Cats have the numerous odorous glands generously located on a surface of their body: on a tail, on a forehead, on a chin, on lips, on the bottom party of forepaws. Cats use these glands to mark the territory and subjects belonging to them. Each time when you come home, a cat rubs about your feet, your hands, your clothes. "Has become bored!", - with affection you think. "It is my thing. But why after absence it so disgustingly smells. It is necessary to mark it!", - the cat thinks.

You have found the favourite peacefully tearing up claws an old favourite sofa. "The villain!", - you indignantly exclaim. "It is my favourite thing! But the visitors coming to owners terribly of it have spoilt. It is absolutely necessary to mark it!" - the cat thinks.

As you can be convinced, both in one and in the second case the cat showed only the "master's" qualities. But remained not clear you.

Your cat will rub against you, about other pets for an exchange of smells. Being wiped about you, it not only leaves on you the smell, but also "collects" parts of yours. Then, it will carefully carry your aroma on all body. And you that thought, that it only looked after herself!

Space and smells

If the cat constantly living in the house, suddenly manages to get out outside or if you have moved on other residence together with a cat who has got used to walk near to your old house, pupils risk to be lost, having departed from the house of all on 3 metres. But we have already acquired, what even own kitten who smells "not so", remains not learnt by a cat. The cat cannot remember road "eyes", familiar smells are necessary to it. If the cat had no possibility to mark a way from the house. It will be rather inconvenient to it to find road home.

Cats who in the childhood have not been accustomed to change of conditions and, as consequence, change of smells, can react very actively to changes in the world surrounding them and on occurrence of subjects new to them and animals. Any new piece of furniture can be considered as "intrusion" on their territory. Reactions to such "intrusion" can be the diversified, beginning from attempt to hide, finishing active aggression directed on an unfortunate subject. In overwhelming majority a case "reconciliation" it will be marked by the most obvious way of a label - urine.

The cat, since the childhood accustomed to changes in world around and not waiting for threat from these changes will much more easy concern occurrence in the house of a novelty. It, of course, потрется about a novelty a muzzle or a tail, but after all it only will please loving owners.

How to be?

So, how as much as possible to facilitate to a cat perception of new subjects and new smells? Try the following:

If at you in the house there live two cats, and you plan a trip to the veterinary surgeon - grasp both. The second cat will simply sit in a resock on reception. But at returning home the smell of the fellow sufferer will not disturb it and will not cause aggression.
If you were in the house where too there lives a cat - try to change clothes as soon as possible, it is desirable to a meeting your cat. Clean clothes in a place inaccessible to a cat and take a shower with your favourite soap.
Before bringing in a room a new sofa, wipe its things bearing your smell, and it is even better - things which bear a smell of your cat.
If you move to a new place - equip one room with old furniture and old things. This corner will perfectly protect your cat in the first days on a new place. Be not afflicted - in due course when the cat will accustom to the new house, you can free throw out these second-hand articles.
If you visit many exhibitions of cats - do not regret means for own exhibition cage and own elegant матрасик. It will allow a cat to feel more confident and finally to prove to be from the best party.
Apply only those means грумминга which smell does not irritate a cat. The assortment of means грумминга is now so extensive what to satisfy this condition it is possible.
Never leave a cat without supervision in the street in an unfamiliar place. Even if this unfamiliar place is all in metre from your house. The street is full of new smells. The cat cannot find road home.
If in your apartment to you there lived a family with a cat, use reasonable efforts to clear premises of any things which can bear on itself its smell.
The list of similar cunnings нескончаем, but all the same it could be much shorter if to start to bring up a cat since the childhood. Than with wider scale of smells a sign a kitten - that more easy it will concern similar "surprises" in an adult life. Try to diversify as much as possible a life of a kitten, By the way, it will render you the invaluable help not only at "struggle of smells", but also in exhibition career, visits to груммеру, moving on a summer residence. Whenever possible make a kitten your partner on travel, trips to acquaintances (certainly only to what divide your love to cats). A smell of other houses, cars, people. Cats, dogs, hamsters. Whether yes it is not enough with what it is necessary to face to a cat in a life!

I will notice by the way, that such active to environment perfectly influences and intellectual development of a kitten, and on its ability to be socialised.