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The Cat: Behaviour and Welfare

This book has been translated, adapted, and extended from a Norwegian bestseller. It provides a fascinating insight into all aspects of the behaviour of domestic cats. Its accessible and informative style means it is applicable to cat owners, students, biologists, veterinarians, animal nurses and technicians, and others working with cats or wanting to learn more about them. The depth of knowledge provided will enhance cat welfare. 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 604g
  • Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Dec 2022
  • Publisher: CABI Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789242317

About Anne McBrideBjarne O BraastadDr Anne McBrideProfessor Bjarne O BraastadRuth C Newberry

Bjarne O Braastad (Author) 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. Anne McBride (Author) Anne McBride has a Psychology degree and PhD in animal behaviour from University College London. She has had a few cat teachers notably Corky named for her corkscrew shaped tail that had been broken in several places. A small black non-pedigree unwanted kitten brought to the vets to be euthanised where a young Anne was working as a Saturday helper. Instead Corky found a home for the next 14 years! An Animal Behaviour and Training Council Registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist she has been practising since 1987 and developed and ran for 20 years the first postgraduate course in this field at the University of Southampton. She continues to teach about Human-Animal Interactions at Southampton and elsewhere including teaching some of Bjarne's students about animal learning and training - with sessions to help them practice their skills by training new behaviours to cows! Her degree experience as a clinician and generally of life and people and her strong interest in the 'hows and whys' are central to her main goal in life. Namely to help others become creative yet critical thinkers in respect of animal (and human) behaviour and welfare. Her second goal is to grow older whilst never truly growing up by continuing to learn and laugh all the way to the end! As an aside you will find Anne has books and papers published as Anne McBride and as E. Anne McBride Ruth C Newberry (Author) Ruth C. Newberry is a Professor of Ethology in the Faculty of Biosciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her early years were spent on a farm near Ottawa which had a resident cat colony. Before the cats were neutered she saw first-hand the communal nursing of Tinkerbell and her adult daughter and the comings and goings of the resident tomcat. As a zoology student at the University of Edinburgh she was encouraged by Jane Goodall's writings to pursue the study of animal behaviour leading to her PhD research in the Edinburgh Pig Park observing communal nursing in pig nests. After several years investigating chicken behaviour at the Agassiz Research Station in British Columbia she journeyed south to join Washington State University's colleges of veterinary medicine and agriculture. There she conducted studies on a wide range of animals including cats. Having finally habituated to cowboy hats in her classroom the northern lights beckoned once more this time to Norway. Here since 2013 her research has focused on methods of environmental enrichment that foster harmonious social development and positive welfare. Ruth is a Past-President and Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Applied Ethology and a member of several scientific advisory committees on animal welfare. A confirmed cat person meeting the personality traits described in Chapter 12 she has shared her home with a succession of beloved cats Annapurra Katman Cinnamon Daintree Siena Kitkatla to name a few whose unique personalities have provided inspiration during the writing of this book.

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