Outsmarting Cats: How to Persuade the Felines in Your Life to do What You Want

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Skeptics will claim that it's impossible to train a cat. Happily, Wendy Christensen knows they're wrong. True, cats are intelligent, adaptable, patient, independent, stubborn, observant, and extremely quick learners. But they're also remarkably self-interested and quick to exploit a good deal. Outsmarting Cats enables you to persuade your cat that what you want is also what she wants.;1. Introduction -- 2. People and cats, together -- 3. The physical cat -- 4. The secrets of your cat's mind -- 5. The litter box blues -- 6. Claws and effect -- 7. Fractious felines: fighting, aggression, ambushes and biting -- 8. Food fussies and earlobe chewers -- 9. Psyching out Fluffy: feline emotions and personality quirks -- 10. Cat-versations -- 11. Shedding cat hair, everywhere! -- 12. COOPs (cats out of place) -- 13. OPCs (other people's cats) and NCs (nobody's cats) -- 14. Helping cats in your community and beyond -- 15. Better safe than sorry. 1. Introduction -- 2. People and cats, together -- 3. The physical cat -- 4. The secrets of your cat's mind -- 5. The litter box blues -- 6. Claws and effect -- 7. Fractious felines: fighting, aggression, ambushes and biting -- 8. Food fussies and earlobe chewers -- 9. Psyching out Fluffy: feline emotions and personality quirks -- 10. Cat-versations -- 11. Shedding cat hair, everywhere! -- 12. COOPs (cats out of place) -- 13. OPCs (other people's cats) and NCs (nobody's cats) -- 14. Helping cats in your community and beyond -- 15. Better safe than sorry.