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How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Basic Books
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 0465031013
EAN: 9780465031016
Kindle: B00BKRW528
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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.
Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while
many have learned to live alongside humans and even feel
affection for us, they still don’t quite “get us” the way
dogs do, and perhaps they never will. But cats have rich
emotional lives that we need to respect and understand if
they are to thrive in our company. 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 dispel the
myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends.
Tracing the cat’s evolution from lone predator to
domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats
and humans have been living together for at least eight
thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary
of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash
with our modern lifestyles. Cats still have three out of
four paws firmly planted in the wild, and within only a few
generations can easily revert back to the independent way of
life that was the exclusive preserve of their predecessors
some 10,000 years ago. Cats are astonishingly flexible, and
given the right environment they can adapt to a life of
domesticity with their owners—but to continue do so, they
will increasingly need our help. If we’re to live in harmony
with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to
understand their inherited quirks: understanding their body
language, keeping their environments—however
small—sufficiently interesting, and becoming more proactive
in managing both their natural hunting instincts and their
relationships with other cats. A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers
humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that
challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to
dramatically improve our pets’ lives—and ours.
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