Cats have particular behaviour traits and the more time you spend with your cat, the quicker you’ll learn what your cat is trying to tell you via their behaviour. For example on of my cats craves attention, she’s not fussy who gives it as long as someone does. However if she’s deemed that you actually have 2 spare hands and your only using one to stroke her, she will demand that you use both hands. She has a certain meow to get your attention and she makes it very clear what she wants. If you’re reading she’ll sit on your book and when I’m on the laptop my cat will sit on my knee so I can’t see the keys.

Each cat will have their own specific behaviours to communicate their needs, whether they’re pawing at your face to make you get out of bed in the morning, or using something else as a toilet when they’ve deemed their litter tray isn’t clean enough. The more you pay attention to this type of communicative cat behaviour the more you will understand your cat and your relationship with grow with this understanding.

Like humans cats have different personalities which impact on their behaviour. I have 2 cats, one is very communicative, and I know by her behaviour whether she wants food, her belly stroked or whether she just wants peace and quiet. The other is very hyper, she has a very short attention span and it’s far more difficult to understand what she wants. However I have discovered that she only likes her head been stroked and she’s very indecisive.

The following video is an animation of a cat and its owner that I was sent on Facebook. It shows how demanding and stubborn cat’s can really be. I thought it was very typical cat behaviour, something most cat owners can relate to and incredibly funny. Let me know what you think.