Boredom Busters for Cats: 40 Whisker-Twitching Games and Adventures
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Nikki Moustaki
Nikki Moustaki is the author of twenty-five books on the care and training of exotic birds. She holds an MA in creative writing, poetry, from New York University, an MFA in creative writing, poetry, from Indiana University, and an MFA in creative writing, fiction, from New York University. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry, as well as many other national writing awards. She splits her time between New York City and Miami Beach.
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Boredom Busters for Cats - Nikki Moustaki
Enriching Your Cat’s Life
While on a visit to the zoo, a cat lover will certainly include a trip to admire the lions, tigers, and cougars in their mini jungles. It’s amazing to see these giant cats groom themselves, amuse themselves with tree branches, and wrestle with one another. Every behavior seems to mirror that of house cats, so who would think that feline fanatics would learn even more about their pets by watching a polar bear?
In the mid-1990s, zookeepers at the Central Park Zoo in New York City noticed that their 700-pound male polar bear, Gus, seemed to be experiencing some stress. Gus swam back and forth in his small pool day after day, for hours on end. Clearly, something was dreadfully wrong with the bear, so the zoo hired an animal behaviorist to study him. What was the diagnosis? Years of captivity had caused Gus to become neurotic, and his obsessive-compulsive behaviors most likely were meant to keep him from going out of his mind from boredom. This natural predator wanted something to do.
The behaviorist suggested that the Central Park Zoo implement a protocol of enrichment activities and create an environment that would stimulate the natural tendencies of the polar bear and break his neurotic patterns. So the zookeepers installed a whirlpool for Gus, began offering his food in packages for him to open, hid food around his habitat for him to hunt down, froze fish in giant blocks of ice for him to break open, and gave him interactive toys to play with. Gus seemed to be thrilled with all of these additions to his habitat. He stopped his pointless swimming as he learned to play and forage as he would in the wild. That’s what enrichment is all about: keeping your pet active and engaged in his environment.
Enrichment for cats means anything—a toy, a game, an adventure—that stimulates natural behavior, keeping them active and engaged. Many behavioral problems can be solved by adding these types of activities to your cat’s life and environment. As with Gus, lack of enrichment can cause stress and anxiety, which a cat may express with excessive grooming or inappropriate elimination.
Enrichment can eradicate, or lessen, these problems and other ones, including antisocial behavior and obesity. This book explores a number of simple ways you can provide your cat