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ComPETability
- Solving Behavior Problems in Your Multi-Cat Household
- Narrated by: Amy Shojai
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's summary
The United States is home to 86.4 million owned cats, and 52 percent of owners own more than one cat. That means more furry love for owners, but also can put your cats' tails in a twist over that (HISSS!) new feline friend. From conflicts over favorite sleep spots to sharing potty facilities, adding new pets rubs fur the wrong way and creates hairy situations for everyone - including you.
This new guide gives owners all the must-knows about cat behavior, whether they share their home with a single feline or a clowder of cat companions. You'll learn why cats act with cat-egorical aggression, and learn how to soothe the growls and turn your household into a peaceable kingdom. You'll find detailed, prescriptive, how-to advice focused on the most common problems found in the multi-cat household. Use these fun techniques to calm fears, explain cat body language, and strengthen the bond you share with your cats. Step-by-step tips from this award-winning author and certified animal behavior consultant explain how to:
- Recognize and diffuse cat-to-cat aggression
- Settle disputes over territory, potty problems and mealtime woes
- Train your cat to walk on leash, come when called and more
- Choose an appropriate furry friend that resident cats welcome with open "paws"
- Introduce the new arrival (including babies, kids, and dogs) to the current cats
- Solve common pet peeves: meowing, clawing, countertop cruising, door dashing
- Understand weird behaviors: phone attraction, mirror fear, "elevator butt", and toilet pests
Fun, practical, and eminently informative, ComPETability helps owners devise strategies that enable multiple cats to live in harmony within the same household. Written by one of America's premier pet experts, the book explains everything the loving cat owner needs to know. Most importantly, ComPETability provides crucial tips on how to evaluate and match your pets' personalities, improve their relationships, and make your home a sanctuary for cat fun and peace.
For more pet behavior advice refer to: ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your CAT/DOG Household and ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your Multi-DOG Household
About the author: Amy Shojai, CABC has been reinventing herself for years. She's a certified animal behavior consultant, and the award-winning author of two dozen best-selling pet books that cover furry babies to old-fogies, first aid to natural healing, and behavior/training to Chicken Soup-icity. She is the Puppies Guide at puppies.About.com, the cat behavior expert at cats.About.com, and hosts a weekly half hour Internet Pet Peeves radio show. Amy has been featured as an expert in hundreds of print venues including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Family Circle, as well as national radio and television networks such as CNN and Animal Planet's DOGS 101 and CATS 101. Amy brings her unique pet-centric viewpoint to public appearances, nonfiction books, and thrillers with bite!
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In Team Dog, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog's trust. He also offers invaluable steps for achieving any level of obedience. His unique approach incorporates entertaining examples and anecdotes from his work with dogs on and off the battlefield and tips from the Navy SEAL guidebook.
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- By Jay on 12-30-15
By: Mike Ritland
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The Loved Dog
- The Playful, Nonaggressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior
- By: Tamar Geller, Andrea Cagan
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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More than 15 years ago, Tamar Geller began her career as a dog trainer by observing a scientific study of wolves in the wild. She realized that the socialization and parenting techniques they used to raise their cubs were rooted in bonding, communication, and play: not in aggression, dominance, or punishment. If people used these techniques when training their dogs, she realized, there would be no need for prong collars, choke chains, or any kind of physical or verbal aggression.
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Maybe better read but a terrible listen
- By Leslie on 04-27-07
By: Tamar Geller, and others
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Don't Dump the Dog
- Outrageous Stories and Simple Solutions to Your Worst Dog Behavior Problems
- By: Melinda Roth, Randy Grim
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Do you want to dump your dog because he tries to escape your yard? Barks too much? You-know-whats in the house? Doesn’t play well with others? Chewed up your favorite pair of shoes? You wouldn’t be the first person asking to “return” your pet. And dog rescuer Randy Grim has heard every reason under the sun. But before you load Fido into the back of your car, listen to this book. In it, Randy addresses the concerns of dog guardians everywhere by responding to letters that he’s actually received.
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WHEN YOU TAKE A DOG INTO YOUR FAMILY,
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-12-14
By: Melinda Roth, and others
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Do Dogs Dream?
- By: Stanley Coren
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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In a conversational Q&A format, a leading dog expert answers the most commonly asked questions about how dogs think and act. Do dogs dream? Can they recognize themselves in the mirror or understand what they’re seeing on television? Are they more intelligent than cats? People have a great curiosity - and many misunderstandings - about how dogs think, act, and perceive the world. They also wonder about the social and emotional lives of dogs. Stanley Coren brings decades of scientific research on dogs to bear in his unprecedented foray into the inner lives of our canine companions, dispelling many common myths in the process.
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Must read for dog lovers
- By Elad on 08-01-13
By: Stanley Coren
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What the Animals Tell Me
- By: Sonya Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Carol Irwin
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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If you could talk to your pet, what would it say to you? How do animals communicate with people? And what's the best way for people to communicate with animals? In this insightful audiobook, renowned pet psychic Sonya Fitpatrick teaches listeners about the secrets of the animal world and how to learn the telepathic language of animals. Dogs, cats, reptiles, horses and wild animals of kinds have a story to tell.
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Total Fake
- By kortega on 09-02-23
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Cat Sense
- How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
- By: John Bradshaw
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat’s evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact.
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Not what I had expected
- By Terry on 03-11-14
By: John Bradshaw
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How Dogs Love Us
- A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
- By: Gregory Berns
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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How Dogs Love Us answers the age-old question of dog lovers everywhere and offers profound new evidence that dogs should be treated as we would treat our best human friends: with love, respect, and appreciation for their social and emotional intelligence.
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misleading title
- By Cindy on 08-06-15
By: Gregory Berns
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Animals in Translation
- Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
- By: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that autistic people can often think the way animals think—putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate “animal talk.”
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Wonderful, but I have a bone to pick...
- By Tango on 05-06-13
By: Temple Grandin, and others
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- Marcelo Pedott
- 09-17-15
How to make yoursel the Alfa!
What does Amy Shojai bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Amy Shojai can bring cats and primates together in this wonderful book! Explaining how a cat thinks makes the relationship with all the furballs living with easier, happier en much more enjoyable. I have 4 cats that divide my and my wife's atention and after this book the fights, hisses and flying fur droped to a minimum! This book is a must read to all cat lovers, specialy those like me who have not settle with just one companion!
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- MCR
- 05-16-17
Many techniques to try!
I am a multi-cat mom, as we have fostered and rescued these furry babies for over two decades. With a big family comes the potential for strife and Amy's book is filled with tips, products, procedures and health advice to help resolve bad behaviours the right way. I can't wait to read more from her!
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- Addicted to Audible
- 12-01-15
Very helpful ideas for multicat homes.
I have always had cats and have read cat books, and still learned helpful new information. If you have more than one cat, this is well worth a listen... though probably best in print so it could be a refence; I listened twice which helped the retention of relevant information.
As to the reading, it should have been done by someone else. I liked hearing the author's passion but her odd stocatto reading of the book took away from her many cute puns and word play.
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- kate
- 05-03-15
All cat owners need this book!
It his author ha a series of pet rearing books. I read the book about cats, and even though I have had cats for many years, this book taught me invaluable information. The author organized each chapter by different topics, eg feeding, stress, sleeping. The informs
Film was not mundane or obvious. The narrator was smooth and interesting.
Taking care of a pet is as difficult as chillsrearing(well, almost).
It takes a village to raise a cat!
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- RI#4ev
- 06-21-16
very helpful! ❤
this book helped us tremendously to understand why our number one cat got grumpier and grumpier and even did not come home overnight after we had to rescue a poor kitten someone obviously dumped on our farm during a horrible rainstorm.... she tolerates a tomcat in the house already, but this was too much!! So I turned to this book and got very helpful insights on how to handle this peculiar situation hopefully successful..... she is already very responsive to her being treated special since she is miss no.1.
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- Nic
- 09-15-20
must listen! wish I read sooner!!
thank you so much for making this available via audio! must listen for multi cat house holds.
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- jbay99
- 07-21-17
Cat Nap!!
The most boring cat book I've listened to ever! DO NOT BUY! It's absolutely awful, the last chapter is nothing but the appendix. Terrible slow, painful and Very uninformative, non-helpful guide.
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