(Endangered marine animals) Cat Collectibles

February 8th, 2010 admin Posted in animals |

By Dave Articlesubmit

If you are a cat person it is almost certain that at some time you will start acquiring some cat collectibles. These may be in the form of cat shaped ornaments, pictures or even cats on stamps. It is just as likely that you will have started your collection by accident as family and friends buy you cat related gifts for Christmas or your birthday.

This is of course another problem for someone who is classed as a cat lover by their nearest and dearest they will nearly always be given cat related items. It is easy to test if you fall into this category, take a look at your last set of birthday cards, how many feature a cat in some form? If it is over half, then as far as your family and friends are concerned you are a cat lover.

There is little point in fighting it so what you need to do is decide what type of collection you would like to build up. If you collect cat ornaments there is such a wide and varied selection available it will be best to specialise. This could be a particular make of ornaments or a specific breed of cat.

A very inexpensive range of comic collectible cats is the Colour Box range. Theses small ornaments do not take up much space and can build up into an attractive collection. Companies such as the Franklin Mint often produce cat related limited edition ornaments and decorative plates.

Back at the turn of the twentieth century in the UK Crested ware used to be very popular. These were ornaments produced in a wide variety of shapes usually which with the crest of a town or city on them. There are many examples of cat shapes and these can still be bought for a reasonable price and could form an interesting collection. Some of the leading makers of crested ware included Goss, Arcadian and Carlton.

Around the time of the First World War picture postcards were very popular and there are many collectors of these cards today. Possibly the most popular cat cards and the most expensive are the ones depicting the work of Louis Wane who was a well-known illustrator of the time. Collecting old cat postcards does have the advantage that they do not take up much space and they do not need to be dusted.

For anyone wishing to start a collection of cat related items there is a big choice out there. Collecting can be fun but do specialise or else your collection could get out of hand.

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How to live in harmony with your cat

By Dave Articlesubmit

If you read some cat books you will come across a chapter headed something like How to train your cat. I can only suggest that this is written by someone who has never had a cat because quite simply you cannot train a cat. It is however, possible to teach a cat certain things but unlike a dog who can be trained to perform tricks and obedience a cat will only actually do what it wants to do.

The best you can hope for from a cat is to work together so that you can both live in harmony with each other. You can teach a cat where its litter tray is it will get the idea what it is for. Providing that you then ensure that there is always clean litter in the tray when the cat needs to go it will agree to use it for the purpose intended.

Most teaching ideally should be done when the cat is a kitten. One important lesson a kitten or cat needs to learn is to know and respond to its own name. A simple way to teach it this is to gently call out the name and when the cat comes towards you reward it with a treat. If you gently call out anything to a cat it will probably come towards you if only out of idle curiosity. Being rewarded with the treat gets it to associate its name with a good result.

You really also need to have a specific tone of voice that the cat will learn means no or stop what you are doing. The words NO or STOP said in a sharp tone can be effective.

Cats like to sharpen their claws and it is not unusual for them to want to do this on either our furniture or drapes. You will have to not only teach your cat that this is not acceptable behaviour but offer an alternative. This can either be a scratching post or a tree in your garden. For the first few times you will need to take your pet to the post or tree and gently taking their front paws and do an up and down motion. You cat will normally get the idea fairly quickly.

There is very little else that you need to teach your cat although if you intend to take your cat on your travels with you it can be an idea to let it spend a little time in its cat carrier to get used to it before the event. You could also take it, again in its carrier, for a short drive in your car to get used to that experience. Some cats seem to like travelling in vehicles while others find it stressful.

Providing you take the time to teach your cat the rules of the house I am sure you will both live in harmony with each other.

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