Cat Confidential

The bestseller 9 out of 10 cats would recommend to their human You love your cat - and you hope your cat loves you too - but cats and their owners can often misunderstand each other. The cat says one thing and the owner hears another. Mostly, it feels right but, sometimes, something can go very wrong. How do you really know if your pampered pet wants a stroke behind the ears, or whether that insistent miaow is trying to communicate something more complex? If you've ever wondered why your cat does the things it does - soils in the house, picks a fight with the cat next door, feels nervous around strangers or destroys your furniture - then this is the book you have to read. Renowned cat counsellor Vicky Halls has changed the lives of thousands of owners and their problem cats. Filled with intriguing case studies, amazing facts and practical advice, Cat Confidential answers all your questions so that you can understand your feline friend better. Fascinating, funny and heart-warming, it's your chance to explore the unique bond between you and your cat. Catisfaction guaranteed.

Vicky Halls

1: Introduction 1: The New Kitten 1: Hand-rearing kittens 2: Early development 3: The development of a cat's personality 4: A new kitten - food for thought 5: Daisy and Puff - toilet training 6: A new kitten - making the decision 7: Choosing the right cat for you 8: Planning ahead 9: Boris and Chivers - introducing a kitten to an established cat 2: The Scaredy Cat 1: Joey and Jessie - the nervous kittens 2: Cats and 'psychological warfare' 3: Lola and Issie - anxiety and the bladder 4: Smokey - sudden-onset fear 5: Useful aids 3: The Agressive Cat 1: Monty - play and aggression 2: Emotionally incompetent neutered male cats 3: Hercules - territorial aggression 4: Tallulah - redirected aggression 5: Rover - the assertively aggressive cat 6: Predatory 'aggression' 7: Muffin - pain-induced aggression 4: The Indoor Cat 1: Keeping cats indoors 2: Molly - the 'stir crazy' cat 3: Activity budgets - assessing your cat's lifestyle 4: Stimulating the indoor cat 5: Behvioural problems in the indoor cat 6: Ying and Yang - the destructive Siamese 7: Harness walking 8: Outdoor enclosures 9: Barnabas - the benefits of an outside enclosure 5: The Multi-Cat Household 1: The pitfalls of the multi-cat household 2: The social structure of the domestic cat 3: The 'Feline Felons' survey 4: Urine spraying 5: Floss - bed-wetting in the multi-cat household 6: Household soiling - urine 7: The litter tray of your cat's dreams 8: Inter-cat aggression in the multi-cat household 9: Tinker and Sinbad - sibling rivalry 10: Stress and the multi-cat household 11: Flora - a simple case 6: The Weird Cat 1: Zebedee - the wool eating Siamese 2: Dennis and the DM boot 3: Lily - the self-mutilating Persian 4: 'Kitty Prozac' 5: Nip - the penis-sucking cat 6: Baldrick - the masturbating cat 7: Ceefor - the tail-chasing cat 7: The Human-Cat Bond 1: Chester - the attention-seeking cat 2: Billy - the over-attached cat 3: George - the under-attached cat 4: Twinkle - a distressing case 5: The positive side 8: The Elderly and Disabled Cat 1: Mary Stewart - the cat with two and a half legs 2: The Elderly Cat Survey 3: Nutrition 4: Sleep 5: Territorial and outside activities 6: Cat companionship 7: The owner-cat relationship 8: Night-time vocalization 9: Play 10: Grooming 11: Toilet habits 12: Percy - house-soiling in the elderly cat 13: Senility 14: Milly - the senile cat 15: Age-related illness 16: Living with an elderly cat 17: Caring for the elderly cat 9: Coping with Bereavement 1: Pain and suffeirng 2: Bereavement and grief 3: Grief 4: The expression of grief 10: Me and My Pedigrees 11: Things Your Cat Would Want You to Know 2: Epilogue 3: Acknowledgements