The Cat: Behaviour and Welfare
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Learn about feline behaviour throughout a cat's lifespan, and our role in helping kittens develop into happy, well-balanced adult cats.
Read about cat communication, their social interactions, free-roaming and hunting behaviour, and differences in personality types and breeds.
Recognize behavioural problems and how to prevent or deal with them to enhance a cat's welfare based on insights into learning theory, emotions and motivations.
Learn more about who cat owners are, why and how we keep cats, and how cats can benefit our own mental and physical health.
See videos and beautiful colour photographs that complement the explanations in the text.
By enriching our understanding of the emotional and behavioural needs of cats, their motivations for pleasure and relaxation, and what stresses them, the reader gains the essential information needed to promote the well-being of cats and their caretakers.
Bjarne O Braastad
Bjarne O. Braastad is Professor emeritus of Ethology (behavioural biology) in the Faculty of Biosciences at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where he worked for 37 years until 2020. He was born on a farm with several animal species, including five cats. For his MSc degree in ethology, he studied homing behaviour in cats, while his PhD in neurobiology was on development of visual brain cortex in cats. Since 1979, Bjarne has been working with research and teaching in animal behaviour and animal welfare, and during 2001-2015 also on animal-assisted interventions using farm animals for humans with mental diseases (termed Green Care). Bjarne's research work has comprised most farmed species incl. salmon, and a wide variety of ethological topics like prenatal stress, housing of farm animals, maternal behaviour, cognitive neurobiology, and human-animal interactions. Bjarne has supervised a number of master's projects on cat behaviour. He has a keen interest in dissemination of scientific knowledge to animal owners and the general public - in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, on internet as well as talks at meetings, particularly addressing cat owners. In 2013 he received his university's Research Dissemination Award for this work. In 1982, he initiated the foundation of The Norwegian Association of Cat Owners. Bjarne has a wife and two sons. The youngest one died at the age of 16 of acute leukaemia. This cat book is dedicated to him. Bjarne and his wife are enthusiastic folk dancers, and Bjarne chairs the local folkdance group.
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