Smart Cats, Dumb Cats, Social Cats, Noisy Cats, Cats Who Are Good With Kids And Cats Who Are Not!
Dusty Rainbolt, Author of "Ghost Cats!”( & many others) joins Deborah Wolfe to talk about cat breeds ;smart cats, dumb cats, social cats, noisy cats, cats who are good with kids and the elderly and cats who are not! Dusty and Deb go through many pedigreed breeds and what you can expect for behavioural traits with each one. Persians, Himalayans, Abyssinian, Turkish Van, Ragdoll, Manx, Rex, Siamese and others are contrasted and compared.
Besides the pedigreed breed or combination of breeds you may be dealing with, the nature of that particular animal and the way humans nurtured it as a very young kitten always play a role so please make sure you consider the individual kitten or puppy and its parents when selecting and raise it well for a cat or dog that will be its best and most happy. Deborah reports on a study done by the Veterinarians about worst and best cat patients. The Vets did not categorize by breed but instead used coat color as the trait providing for some interesting discussion about colour and attitude and sometimes eye colour can indicate a deaf ear or blind eye in a pup or kitten.
BIO:
Dusty Rainbolt is an award-winning cat behavior author. She released her latest book, Cat Scene Investigator: Solve Your Cat’s Litter Box Mystery, to help people resolve their cat's litter box avoidance. She's also author of Kittens for Dummies, Cat Wrangling Made Easy: Maintaining Peace & Sanity in Your Multicat Home and Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits. She also penned the paranormal mystery, Death Under the Crescent Moon. Her scifi fans know Dusty for her comedy novel All the Marbles and as coauthor of the outrageous Four Redheads of the Apocalypse fantasy series.
Dusty is past president of the Cat Writers’ Association. Since joining CWA in 1995, her books, columns, reviews and articles have been honored with more than 50 writing awards including being named Friskies Writer of the Year three times. Her articles and columns regularly appear on Catster.com and in other print and online publications.
Magazine and Puppy and Dog Basics, among others.