Instinct encourages us to go to a kitten when it cries. This is because material and paternal behavior is part of the human social behavior that would be directed towards an infant. A young kitten can easily learn to manipulate a concerned response from its owner and could then cry at every desire, from being hungry to wanting attention. In this way, over-dependency on the kitten’s part is quickly encouraged.
It is possible to identify different types of kitten cries in the same way as with a human baby. A mother instinctively learns which cry relates to:
* Genuine hunger (by linking it with feeding patterns).
* Attention-seeking (just been fed and made comfortable).
* Genuine distress (higher-pitched cry).
You can learn to distinguish between the different cries of a kitten and will then know which can be ignored (the cries will then stop) and which require an appropriate response. It’s easy to try, you don’t need an online degree to make this work to your benefit and have a trained kitten.
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1 Cat Supplies // May 27, 2009 at 11:12 pm
One of my cats just whinges constantly….Just wanders around making noise until you pick him up
2 lydia sandoval // Jun 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm
when i first got my baby tiger she always cried even if she was fed . i know it was attention so i always picked her up. now we have a buddy for her , snd she wont cry anymore. i think she likes her new friend !!! its another cat of coarse . we call him sylvester.
3 anisah // Jun 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm
my cat, Frisky has issues and i don’t exactly know it..every night when i am about to go to bed, i will leave her outside the balcony and lock up the gate.Then after a few minutes later, it starts mewing or crying loudly..I have a feeling she is scared or something..
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