ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems in Your CAT-DOG household (Paperback)

Can't We Just Get Along? Here's How! Cat behavior and behavior of dogs puzzles the most savvy pet owners, and pet behavior problems lose dogs and cats their homes. Animal behavioral problems arise out of owners not understanding dog language or cat language, and misunderstanding normal animal behavior. Training a dog helps stop dog barking, for instance, while behavior modification redirects cat clawing but this book explains why dogs bark and the reason cats scratching behavior is normal. You’ll learn how to understand and manage the behavior of dogs and kitty behavior whether you have a single pet, a clowder of cats or canine pack, or one or more of both cats and dogs.More than 30 million U.S. households double their pleasure by welcoming both cats and dogs into their homes. Yet mixing the two can mean trouble in paradise, especially if you treat your cat like your dog, or vice versa. Cats and dogs are two very different animals with distinctive animal behavioral needs and they canno