Cats act entirely different from dogs.
Do read the chapter on Cats in Temple Grandin’s book, Animals Make Us Human. You will find a review of this book on our blog, click on her name to read my thoughts on this fascinating book.
My daughter’s cat, Yoda, lives indoors.
In fact, dogs have lived with humans for at least forty thousand years. Dogs are the only animals that willingly live with us inside their flight zone. So dogs tend to cower or roll belly up in submission rather than try to out run us inside our homes. Whereas cats disappear, scram or flee up a tree.
Fight or flight?
Raised human voices trigger panic in most cats and dogs. So be aware that regardless whom or what we get mad at, our pets fear our loud scary voices.
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