What Are The Best Cat Toys?

What kind of toys do cats love? What kind of toys do cats need? Cats need intelligent toys that relate to their prey drive whereas puppies, for the most part, just want to chew so as to alleviate their teething. In order to prevent your cat from becoming bored, they need a toy that simulates life in the wild. They like to hunt and they enjoy hunting in packs. Cats love a challenge. They like to stalk their prey, chase their food, taunt, tease, jump and run. It’s important that your cat is properly stimulated both emotionally, physically and psychologically.

They see you as the leader of their pride so it only makes sense that they would enjoy playing with you too! They love interactive toys where you’re a part of their hunt and fun!

THE INTELLIGENCE OF CATS – Cats are more intelligent comparatively to dogs.

The anatomy of a cat’s brain is very similar to the human brain, whereas the anatomy of brain of a dog is not very similar to human brain. The anatomy of brain of cat is about ninety nine percent similar to human brain. Both cats and human beings have same regions for emotion in their brain. The intelligence of animals depends upon brain weight to body weight ratio and anatomy of their brain. The brain of an adult cat weighs about one percent of its body weight while the brain of an adult human being weighs about two percent of its body weight. The brain weight to body weight ratio in cats is greater in cats as compared to Dogs.

The cat has an ample and very advanced cerebral hemisphere, typical of intelligent creatures. Cerebellum is well developed in brain of a cat. Cats are used in scientific research. The biochemistry of behavior, memory and the emotions can be explored by stimulating or destroying certain areas in cat brains. Cats can distinguish complex shapes. Cats can distinguish complex geometrical shapes such as triangle, circle and square. Cats can distinguish between shapes of letters of alphabets of language. Cats can also distinguish between colors.

Cats are used in scientific studies related to vision because cats have more nerve cells in their brain for vision as compared to human beings and all other mammals. Cats have also been used in sleep studies. There are same types of sleep stages in cats and human beings having similar wave patterns. Cats dream in deep sleep stage like human beings. Kittens begin dreaming at just two weeks age. Cats have light sleep and dark sleep stages like human beings. The cats have emotions and feelings like human beings. Cats think and take decisions like human beings. Some pet cats are jealous of other pet animals kept in the same house. Every cat has its different personality like human beings. There are some cats whose psyches are characterized as timid, impudent, obedient, stubborn, tranquil, spiteful, courageous and vile. Cats do very well in psychometric tests.