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Just looking for info regarding 2 indoor males, 1 is 7 yrs old and one is 8 mos old.  Both sleep with me and my husband.  The younger incessantly kneeds me and sucks and licks my arm and sleeps in my lap.  In addition breaking things and stealing stuff and generally wrecking with my posessions.  The older male grooms the younger and then they ignore each other for the most part. The older cat still sleeps in my lap and in bed, but his behavior has changed.  Until I got the old cat (at 5 weeks) I had never had cats always had dogs, so raised the kitten as a dog.  Now with the younger cat I am have issues with both.  Can someone direct me in cat sociogolgy?????????

Crazy Cat LadyBy far, the craziest breed of pet owner has to be the feline fanatic. I mean, what other pet owners have their own class of crazy attributed to them(as well as their own action figure!)? And Crazy Cat Lady Syndrome is no joke!

What's really baffling is that in their obsession with their cats, Crazy Cat People will do the weirdest things to these innocent, yet useless animals. Don't believe me? Check out these cats in costume. These cats don't look amused or cute in the costumes made by, or picked by their misguided and possibly unstable owners.

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Taking care of cats is pretty simple, right? You change the litter box, you feed them every day, and you take them to the vet, and give them a little time and affection. Unlike many dogs, most cats are generally pretty self-reliant. You give them the basics, and they’re pretty much on their own.

But that doesn’t mean that Princess and Boots don’t want your attention. No matter how aloof or snobbish any cat may seem, deep down he or she loves you and wants your affection. (That’s not to say that some cats aren’t open about it in the first place; there are plenty of loving, purr-able cats who aren’t shy when it comes to demanding attention!)

To many cat owners, cats are members of the family. So why not treat them as such? Here are some things you can do to help show your cat how much you love her. Read more

Cute CatDo cats have a learning disability that dogs don't have? One researcher won't put it in so many words, but her research into the friendly felines has demonstrated that "cats do not understand cause and effect connections between objects".  Her experiment was not high-tech at all- she basically baited a string with tasty treats (fish and a biscuit), and placed them out of reach  to see "if the cats could work out that pulling on the string would pull the treat closer."

She used three strings: "a single baited string, two parallel strings where only one was baited, and two crossed strings where only one was baited."
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