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Devilish

Inscrutable

Adorable

He can't live with them

Or without them the truth is

They're not dogs

Often we have no idea why they do the weird things they do

Abdullah

Strange and a new thing I think they just want to

Are adorable houseguest

Are really predators in pets clothing

Get hold of price you want to know what's going on in kitties mind

Watch

Our home

Our rules

Not exactly sometimes it seems the cats in charge

As though they know us a lot better than we know them

Cats clearly March to the beat of A Different Drummer

But that doesn't mean they're Wicked

There is no

Such thing as a bad cat those sometimes it sure seems that way

All the behaviors that cats are exhibited in the house it's because the environment that we put them in

Climbing does lime

Arkline the furniture

Jaime Harrison

Behaviour that

The walls to Mark territory it's dizzy stress

To sharpen

Their claws

In nature a cat has to guard its turf against all Intruders

You got all this expensive furniture

I got some mail for you

And you know what

God's naturally scratch

They have

It's like

Cavalier you know and so they're leaving their calling card

I like chemical Billboards I like the Roland things I like that

Have all that smell on me and I was here

Maybe that's how it works in the jungle

But domestic cats

Aren't in the jungle

But their DNA doesn't know that

There's still something wild and natural right on your couch

You know something that you live with it they still honor that still

You know it is still there

The Call of the Wild

If this wild side that sometimes makes our furry friends hard to live with

Lily is a cat with Attitude attacking friends and strangers alike

Cat behaviorist Michel nagelschneider is here to help

You're pretty

Mashable there

It's okay to that

Lip flip

That she's worried

It's a little bit

Your comfort zone

To a trained eye Lily's Restless tail has a tale to tell

Lily's ancestors use their tails to issue warnings

I'm this close

2 exploding

It's

Tom

I mean her Fair buttons

Cuz she is redirecting aggression

Askew

Trying to lash out at you invite you and social trying to go to safety this

She's not as bad

A cat I mean for a reactive cat that's not been socialized well when

When they were young

This is totally normal

And there are a lot of cats

They're just reactive

They're more worried in their environment

I'm this is more like your

Typical wild

Do the signs that

Time to stop

Adding them they can Hess

Their whiskers will fan

Forward

And I'm getting ready to buy it

Awesome cats

Stop those are all great signs that you've

And petting your cat too long

What happens if you stop petting her

Just kind of

That growling is a warning that's a vocalization for

Other

Cats

Yeah to say leave me alone

So if you stop head

Stop doing that

Okay are you okay

Monster Fair button

Is

You're not always going to have lockjaw

Time to calm down

Cats can't use human language

So if we want to understand what's going on in their heads

We have to learn to read the signals

Hey

Case in point

The cats proverbial curiosity

They never seem to Tire of poking around

Someone needs to let the cat out of the bag

Sometimes they get themselves into hot water

And sometimes into cold water

Which seems out of character for an animal known to hate getting wet

Some cats are attracted

Especially

Is coming out of it

Counting our faucet the way that Shimmers

They know fresh water

Instinctual they're going to find

And what many counters don't know is

Cats prefer to drink water away from

They're dead proteina like out in the wild

Inside the home there

Starbucks

Is there Dead Prez

Could be contaminating

Their water source

Bacteria

In the wild

Cats have to investigate their surroundings to see what is there

Food

Other cat

No Since domestic cats have plenty to eat sometimes traditional food items fall off

The menu

Not all cat behavior is instinctive

Some such as dogs are the enemy

They have to learn from Mom

Take a kitten away from its mother too soon

And this is what you got

Izzy is annex

Experienced mom a Siberian

She's just given birth to her third litter not long after her kittens are born

Is he does something a little unsettling

To us anyway

She eat

The placenta

Why

When domestic cats

Give birth in the home they will

Spell anthem

Placenta just like a wildcat

And this is a survival

NSYNC

The scent of the placenta would draw predator

In the wild without their mother

These babies would be toast

Cats are blind and helpless for the first 3 weeks

So the kittens depend on her for safety

Is he instinctively knows

To keep her babies together

And it's not just so it's easier to watch

Newborns

Can't regulate their own body temperature

So in the wild

They be vulnerable to exposure

But there's more important numbers

5 Weeks Later the Sleepy balls of fluff

Have become the playful kittens we know and love

But this playful rough and tumble has a serious purpose

When kittens are young their job is to sharpen their hunting skills and there's always motor patterns sequences

That they need to practice

Beauties great hunters later on in life so there's this talking Chase

The grab invite

The Townsend B the KB and I need to practice is over and over and over again

Just like lions

Tigers and leopards

Domestic cats

Are carnivores

They may get most of their flesh out of a can these days

But they share the same tools that have put their wild cousins at the top of the food chain

You've got

Animal

Close

To get hold of prey

Extremely efficient Hunters

Scientists estimate the death toll is hundreds of millions of birds

And over a billion small mammals every year

And when they can't actually go hunting they still go through the motions

When a cat sitting in the window and it sees a bird outside

I can't get to it

That chattering sound that we hear is that exagger

Killed by a response to the cat

That bird is already in it

Take that and so it's just automatically it

Starting to buy it

Domesticated cats May no longer need to hunt for survival

But they're Love Of The Chase

Hasn't gone away

Their prior Drive

Is there

Biggest ingrained instant that a cat has

So we can have an outside

The cat

In the middle of eating a bird

And then there's for the birds

Flying around

It's going to stop what it's doing a lot of the time

And go kill all those for birds and then go back to getting that first one

Some cats will try and catch anything that moves

Exact

Chipmunk

Even inanimate objects

But the end of the chase

The end of the story

How do you plan

Park email see killer

Play with their food

It's a cat-and-mouse game you might say

Except it's not a game

Even for a formidable Hunter

Hunting is always risky

Despres could get in a lucky bite or sting before it finally dies

So often a cat will toy with its prey in order to exhaust

And only after it's completely helpless

Go in for the kill

Much safer that way

In the United States

Two-thirds of all domestic

The cats never leave the house

But

They can get past

The front door

Will travel great

Distances

In England one group of cat

Is under clothes

Surveillance

We want to know where they go when they're given their freedom

And what they do when they got there

Maybe this will shed some light on why cats

Do the things they do when they're at home

GPS transmitters will track their every

Cameras mounted on their collars will give us a cat

Sky view of their lives out in the big city

A place to night vision cameras

They don't normally let us see

Our first contestants are they not very bright Bootsy

And his Wiley sister jinxing

The kitty door has been in place for a while

I'm heading out on patrol is second nature to jinxy

Booty

Not so much

At night

The Call of the wild is irresistible

Like their wild cousins they're hardwired to be nocturnal Hunters

They may not even be hungry it's just what they do

They wander late into the night even though potential danger is never far away

Traveling seems to come so naturally to

It's probably why they gave up their freedom to live with us in the first place

Let's take a little trip into

House cat history

AllCast share distinctive DNA

It allows us to map their evolutionary path

So the ancestor of the domestic cat can be identified by using genetic

We had to find DNA samples from cats from all over the world and so we've gone to the Middle East in Asia

Asia and Africa

And then we genetically type them

The research points to one cat species as the common ancestor of all domestic cat

Felis silvestris lybica

African wild cat

Looks familiar

That's because around 10,000 years ago

It happened to be the right cat

In the right place

At the right time

We think the domestic cat came from Wildcats

That were in the near East so in the area that we would consider the Fertile Crescent

Which is rock and turkey and Syria

And we think they domesticated there because that's when humans first became farmers

As we became farmers

Restoring grain

In Kane m

And can cats fur for nice free meal from there it was just one small leaps into

To the laugh of some benevolent human

Domestication of a cat is quite different from most of our other domesticated species

They really kind of

Domesticated themselves they kind of snuck in our back door where I think really can't so probably trained us to be their character

No other species has made this

Jump from solitary Hunter to human companion

It's a testament to their adaptability

An animal that is

Really a hunter

Facebook

Tolerant of us being around

Habitat on all the noise that goes with it

Things together

That's acceptable

In short

They seem to actually like being around us

I think that it's underestimated how social cats are

With each other

And so something about their psyche and somebody

Mesh

And that's where the buying com

Dental

So now we know why Wildcats

Gradually warmed up

And we know how they adapted to an environment in a roll very different from what they were used to in nature

But what we get out of the relationship and why we are so drawn to them

That's another story

Palm Springs California

Original cat show is in full swing

This is pfas largest breed this is a Maine Coon

Pampered pets

Go off for their adoring fans

Stupid

But just because all the people here are cat lovers doesn't mean they all love them

You can search through the stripes on the tail on the stress click on his favorite animal

Some are intrigued by cats close relationship to some very dangerous characters

When you look at tigers and you look at lions and then you look at the household cats and they all

You know you know that they are all similar that's the music very impressive that they related to these magical Wildcat

Listen to breed it comes in long hair and short hair this is a long hair

My favorite breed is the

I really like them because they're kind of like a dog I like to say there is a dog and a cat suit

There must be a zipper in here somewhere where is it others love them not to their bodies but

Nevermind

I was never allowed to have a cat growing up I had a dog I had a turtle but my my

Parents did not like her

And I just got them by accident and I fell in love with the intelligence

Today he is my second-best longhair champion

And then of course there's the cat

Undeniable sensuality asleep with you

You always want to be with you

They make you feel good

The very people-oriented I walk in the room and sit on the sofa right away they

They're on me we spend a lot of time and money looking after our kitty

And sometimes they pay us back in surprising ways

Milo lives with his sister mag

A third cat Molly

And his owners Karen and Bill

As you can see he's a very very handsome boy because I'm quite biased about that he's a muscle

But he is a love machine

Love machine that he showers gifts on his family

One very distinctive unusual habits

Is the bring home treasure and his treasure

Is Longleaf from cordyline plant

And he's very very vocal about it when he does it to

In fact lots of cats bring home gift

For their owners

Is data big snake

Enormous

But it may just be human Manatee to see this is love

Nothing about it

Does cat is bringing you a rat what is he trying to do

Is bringing food back to the nest area he's trying to make sure that you survive

And then we look at a nature would have kept you out in a while they bring food

Back to the nest area

Some 10,000 years after coming in from the wild

Cats still have to learn how to be our live in Friends

They have to learn early

If they don't bond with us as young kittens

They probably never will

Socialization in kittenhood between age of 2 and 7 weeks is actually very critical if they're not handled enough

They're not picked up 10 times today these are the cat sit to help behavior issues be there the cat the end-up in the cat shelters

I just haven't been socialized well when they were twins

What is the meaning

But it's early bonding is the key to a mutually satisfying relationship between human and feline

That doesn't necessarily mean they love us for who we really are

It's actually another relationship altogether

That drives the behavior we think of as affection

Why is it sitting on your lap

It's behaving as a kitten

Anytime it's not going to get that much heat up from another animal

Is when it's with Mum

And it's sitting there is a little kitten Alec Steele heat radiating out

Then there's making biscuits which mystifies many cat owners

It too was a throwback to life with mother

Does this onto you behaving towards you is if your mom

So you are seeing in that sort of behavior

Is movement that the comes in with cycling and the polls trying to stimulate milk flip

But what about petting

They seem to love it

Cat moms definitely can't do this

Inopportune was with stretching

In a cat Stones what's going on

It's actually the motherc

Because the ratio between our hand and it is an adult cat is the same as mother cat

And purring

Got to be loved right

Harry

Gives us insight into the car

It's unbelievably peculiar thing

Pair a specifically for kittens

It just is a spinoff

They have no say Madeline they've got to be able to make a sound and she's going to be able to make a sound

And it's a sound that's not heard by anybody else so the big bad nasty things that are out there

They're going to take advantage of it

Is the best thing in the world

Kittens along together

Quietly

The way we respond to a cat is all about

Bringing out like kitten in the cat

So we're trying to infantize the cat

House cats are very vocal

Especially with their human owners

They use 23 different kinds of purrs

Growls hisses and meows to talk to us

Vocalization is reserved

4 people more so than for cat to cat cats have actually developed

Any out

4 humans

Sounds a little bit like

Little bit of a gurgle meow and it definitely elicits response

They've also adapted to the relative noisiness of the human world

They recognize that we are much more than they are

When they come to live with us they realized

If you want to be heard

You have to shout

So one of the comedies things I do is like turn up the volume

And they will let you know that they want attention I want my food now

And if the meow doesn't work

They'll find their own way of getting through to us

When I was little I

I used to look at my dogs and I'd say tell wish I could I wish you could talk to me I wish I could under

Understand what you're thinking

And

The Siamese you do understand what

They're thinking

Samuel

Why

We've sort of mutual communication going on

When one cat

Approaches another Cat the first thing that they will do

To say hi yes I might come a bit for the food

We instinctively do the same thing

But we do

It's when we get your grease account

To say hi

Me but from a cat's point of view it's seeing a vertical in the same way that we they would normally see a vertical so even at silly little level

Like that without realising it

We're playing some of the cat recognition games

Learning to read

Body language is important

Sometimes

Very important

I know her

Behavior

Signals I know you watch for

Eye movement ear move

Mattel

Lexi Williams age

A product of the pet market

Young man got her

Got to be really cool to have

Pet tiger

And

Took her home

You also had

Declawed

Maybe safer with a

Pequot tiger

Unfortunately when these guys

Hitting juvenile 8 that's when they start getting a little bit rambunctious

Sou really started

Get nervous

And decided

And so we took in

Terry Werner looks after rescued big cat

Lions

Cougars

Bobcats

Ambulatory

Domestic cats and Wildcats are very soon

Their behavior

Do you have a domestic

You basically have

Small tiger

Does steaks might be a little higher with a 270 kilogram tiger

But the basic principles are the same they love to play with balls and

Cardboard boxes and stuff like that now your domestic cat gets in their place with things scratches on things

These guys

Stalking

Can you pray

Your domestic cat bite you yeah it hurt you to have a cut on you and have to maybe get a full Stitch Has

These guys bite you you may lose a hands

You may lose your life

So maybe when we try to figure out what our Precious Pets are doing the trick is to just close

Star eyes and pretend they're taking a walk on the wild side

Rodger Tabor wants to know just how far they do walk when they're out of sight

And the results are in

So we've got patch here patch is

Old lady 13 years old

But that doesn't mean she's a stay-at-home her owners have no idea what her secret life is like

What she's doing is being an absolute classic female cat if you're a classic female cat what you do

Is you have New Garden

And a little bit

Of the neighbors because my scanner tonight to use the neighbors goblins

Is ametrine

Robert De Niro

In the wild

Marking patrolling and defending territory is crucial to an animal survival

It can be about protecting the food supply

Mates

Our offspring

It's hard to believe all this would be important to the well fed and well housed domestic cat

But it is

Or at least

That's what patches jeans tell her

Patches territory covers a small area of Gardens on either side of her Street

Meaning she rarely Ventures further than 90 metres from her back door

Brain scratching and rubbing are all about telling the competition

This is my turf

Rogers GPS analysis shows how all the colored house cats

Have carved up the neighbourhood into territories

Each centered around their own home

But little do his owners know

Did Leaf thief Milo

Is the Alexander the Great of domestic

Be prepared

Be very prepared

Milo is taking over the world

Milo is a long-distance traveler his territory takes in 40 Gardens and Crosses several

Main roads

It's 20 times the size of old lady patches

Doing a

Huge

Range and I mean this is a big range by anytime

Domestic cat stand

Not psychological stress

Population stress

What you see is the reaction to cat densities relieving it

I want sapio

Just going to get away from this or what

And if other cats don't get the message

Milo's more than willing to explain it to them

The cat cam shows a classic showdown from his point of view

In the wild male cats will meet with as many females as they can

Our domesticated cats have the same agenda

And that's another reason they protect their territory from unwanted Intruders

But no matter how large a house cats Kingdom may be

It's Castle is of course

The human home

So they have to keep Intruders out

Near San Francisco

Megan lives in an apartment with her three cats

Did you young males are in an almost

Constant state of War

They're like teenage boys

Always jockeying for position and trying to show the other who's the Boss

Megan's apartment is small so it's hard to stay out of each other's face

Inside the home the environment is usually set up in a way

That's conducive

Listen to the hon

Penis and not the cat

So when the cats have conf

Time sharing a water area food area

Let's train set that's where we get territorial thinking

Surface and then

Hostility

Between them

You may have noticed that cats seem to be obsessed

With getting to the highest spot of any room they're in

When a cat is up high

Are there any other cat

More assertive position they can jump in attack on to another cat they can see a bigger expansivity

Territory

And all of

When to I'm the more dominant cat you know I'm going to be able to look down on this aboard

It's just like

Human Warfare both sides want to control the higher ground

And what applies to the average house cat is just as true for its homeless counterpart

Rome Italy is famous for its feral cat

An estimated 300,000 of them one colony is taken refuge in the city's

Ancient monuments

There are lots of coveted wall top-tier coveted and Contessa

Feral cats are unique mix

Neither truly wild nor house pet they survive on the edge of human society

Whatever compromises

Wildcats made around 10,000 years ago to get along with us

These animals no longer make

It doesn't take long for a cat to adjust to life on the streets if it has to

Katr

We went from this hospital and went down to get the cats

MMA minute after eating a couple weeks out

You know catching birds in

And coping great but coping

My dog could have done that

Domestic cats such as your house pet can very easily revert back to a wild nature

So within one generation they really can become a feral cat

And survive quite well on their own that's what's rather unique about cats

These feral cats ancestors may have been pets but ended up living on the streets

Generations down the line

They have a unique lifestyle

Watching them it's possible to get a glimpse of what it might have been like thousands of years ago

When cats first began loitering around human settlement

Wherever domestic cats live together they develop a group identity and a hierarchy just like lion

It's smelling like the rest of the gang that's really important

Grooming isn't just about cleanliness

It's spreads the smell around

And it's the same for house cats

Do cats groom each other

The action itself brings about closeness and bonding with cats but it also creates

The

Sad and cats primarily rely on sense of everyone

Smells similar

They're all going to feel like they're of one group Bill Sylmar affiliated

And friendly

So the next time your cat seems to be grooming you it doesn't necessarily mean that things you need a bath

It may be a way of saying it sees you as part of his extended family

Among

Send isky

Throughout their lives it's essential that cats know which odors are good

Since it lets a male know when a female is in heat

Sent it says

I'm a member of your tribe

Good

That announces

Here I am this is where my toilet is

This is where I eat

Not so good

So that survival Instinct that is related to this covering behavior of their schooling and urination in the

The litter box is

To make sure that the scent

Is not attract

Predator

Are competitor

To the area the same goes for food cats generally belong to the clean pl

But if there are leftovers they do their best to hide the scent

The cat

Human relationship seems like a win-win

We get the companionship of a pet

But the arrangements have been very much on our terms

Street Alley Cat is very different

In the Pampered Persian

Who's on the 13th floor that cliffdweller

With with with his people

Maybe never even touch again he's never been outside in his life

Eureka cats in captivity as domestic house cat

They don't really have a chance

Always to exhibit their Hatton

What is the ideal daily regimen would be the daily activities

Living with us

Has been a compliment

Kevin Fitzgerald has been an animal vet for 30 years

And even in that short time he's seen things change

What we see you with cast now is

Is it better nutrition in better care

And so

Specific

Type of medicine

Where's the new medicine for cat used to be focused

Premier Leon the kitten

And getting them speed and neutered and getting his shots

Now we're starting to see geriatric things

Diabetes

Cat

Arthr

Heart disease kidney fail

Okay

I can listen to your heart

Frank is a regular

He has a heart condition and needs to be treated with care

Any stress

Could be dangerous for him

I hate the doctor's office

He's lost a little weight

Yeah

Problems with cats is

We've taken 100 and Stalker jumper species

And turned it into couch potatoes

It seems like a wild species with the last name was Invesco

A few did Chase down everything you at

Lean-to

What are the biggest problems I see would be obesity

I'm not at all certain that cats were meant to eat

Frequently

As much

There's errors often as we do

Because

Such a problem with American public

So I think is kind of one for me one for you

Zip code

When we brought the cat into our world

We gave it a lifestyle that was bound to be dangerous to its health

And in our fascination with creating the perfect cat

Reviews genetics to change physical features and have even developed new breeds

Blue Linx

Point Himalayan

When God give out noses shoes in the wrong line huh

Cute noses and other bread in features can cause problems

Right now if you look at a person they have

A very pleasant expression they have like a little tiny nose big eyes little ears and it's an edge it's a natural mutation

Which means that

They're bread like this and born like that

We're just breathing for a beautiful

We're only paying attention to

You notice that tell long enough

You know if we only look at the physical beauty

Sometimes health issues will arise

Flat dishface breeds with eye problems and

You know problems with breathing

Abbreviating the news

Elongating the soft palate

You know Clapton Tribune it's not her nature planned it

They have a button nose

In the most extreme cases our taste for the distinctive and it's

Exclusive has created animals that will never be able to respond to the Call of the Wild

We're kind of

Designer

Kitties

They certainly

What far from what a cat looks like 100 years ago

It was Mommy

April argenbright perhaps the most bizarre looking of all domestic cats

The naked and short leg Bambino

Some people you know it may seem a little

Extreme to have

Two different

Mutations and things going on

But April has been devoted to these strange-looking cats ever since she had her first Bambino

Westchester

The most adorable thing when

When she was pregnant

She had her short legs

For the

Two weeks of her pregnancy her belly with x

The greatest bottom

Before

And so we would have to

To put a sweater on her cuz I felt bad with her belly tattoo

Sometimes we

These very very

Specific looks in in these really extreme looks on these Ridge

To get that

We we have to have

Very directed in selective breeding

But we also mean lock-in

Free Riders

Unwittingly we locking deleterious Gene

We didn't mean to

April understands the problems involved in this kind of breeding

Are male cats

Are the Bambinos so

Short-legged Genie

And all of our females are the regular

Sphinx with the long

Because

The short leg jeans

For the bamb

Dominant gene

And if

Two kittens were two results

And get the dominant

And so we're not comfort

Comfortable doing it that way

This painstaking breeding makes the Bambinos the ultimate house pet

If cats would ever survive outside on there

They are

Too fragile

And they don't

No to be afraid of

Danger

And because they don't have any

For they wouldn't be able to keep themselves warm during a cold night or cool themselves during a hot day

New Breed like the Bambino are totally reliant on us they couldn't catch

After dinner if their lives depended on it

Which it was

It's the cat's adaptability to our way of life that's made them such

Good Companions why is the case so successful because it can take food straight off a plate

Look at what they've got shark claws and fangs they should be

But the fact that capability is Mexico in Mableton Teresa binder

They've spent the last

10000 years by our sides

Without sacrificing their true cells

What makes a cat a cat is the line in that little body I can make it on their own

Chihuahua

Somebody else's dinner very quickly

These guys are still so much closer to it they were meant to do

The cats