Cats, Character And Instinct

Although many suppose the contrary, the wild cat is often as or more sociable than the domestic cat and its habitat established colonies nested marking his territory, too, like any pet, the cat is exposed to psychological illnesses such as stress and could, as therefore develop neurotic behavior. His old age is not gradual, on the contrary, abrupt, older cats have cataracts as early symptoms and slow in his walk, in most cases lose their smell and sleep a lot more than necessary, because they have a fatigue end. Domestic cats, compared with the wild have a disadvantage and it is based on custom, one example is the way that the former are across the street.

Domestic cats do not measure the risk and cross without looking, without expecting the worst, this shows us why there are so many cats hit the streets. If there is an attribute that difference to cats other pets is their vision. This is higher at night than that of humans but less during the day, the cat has the ability to use the maximum of light to see people and objects.

This cat has a 200 ° visual field while ours is only 180 °, the cat triangulates the distance to an object using the same two images projected on the retina from several angles. With respect to hearing, say it is very similar to humans, however, cats are able to hear sounds louder and more clear that the dogs when they hear a sound, your ears rotate in that direction. If this noise is rather strong, it is likely that the cat running scared, if not, then retract their ears to his neck. Smell is one of the main features of cats, we say this because it is 14 times finer than that of humans, in turn has a sensory organ in the mouth and facial movement used to send chemicals to it. As we touch the cat has a dozen sensory bristles distributed between your upper lip and cheeks, others are in the chin and above the eyes, the same are responsible for transmitting electrical impulses to the cerebral cortex. Cats rely more on information from their sensory bristles Visula information that they collect.