Cat Confidential

Vicky Halls is a pet behaviour counselor and has spent over twenty years specialising in cats. Vicky also works on welfare projects with cat charities, writes and tutors cat behaviour courses and lectures all over the world to veterinary audiences. She is a registered veterinary nurse and qualified person-centred counsellor.The author of a number of books for the general reader and co-author of veterinary textbooks and papers, her particular interests are the complexity of the modern cat/owner relationship and the welfare of unowned cats throughout the world. At home, she is a slave to the demands of Jean Patou, her Burmese.

"A superior work" -- Virginia Blackburn SUNDAY EXPRESS "With insights into the feline psyche and using interesting case studies, professional and personal, Halls has compiled a useful book full of practical advice on a whole range of common cat problems, as well as some more unusual ones" -- Carla McKay DAILY MAIL "Packed with anecdotes and tips, this is a must for any cat-lover" WOMAN & HOME "Practical and often hilarious guide" YOU MAGAZINE

• 1: Introduction 1: The New Kitten 1: Hand-rearing kittens 2: Early development 3: The development of a cat's personality 4: A new kitten - food for thought 5: Daisy and Puff - toilet training 6: A new kitten - making the decision 7: Choosing the right cat for you 8: Planning ahead 9: Boris and Chivers - introducing a kitten to an established cat 2: The Scaredy Cat 1: Joey and Jessie - the nervous kittens 2: Cats and 'psychological warfare' 3: Lola and Issie - anxiety and the bladder 4: Smokey - sudden-onset fear 5: Useful aids 3: The Agressive Cat 1: Monty - play and aggression 2: Emotionally incompetent neutered male cats 3: Hercules - territorial aggression 4: Tallulah - redirected aggression 5: Rover - the assertively aggressive cat 6: Predatory 'aggression' 7: Muffin - pain-induced aggression 4: The Indoor Cat 1: Keeping cats indoors 2: Molly - the 'stir crazy' cat 3: Activity budgets - assessing your cat's lifestyle 4: Stimulating the indoor cat 5: Behvioural problems in the indoor cat 6: Ying and Yang - the destructive Siamese 7: Harness walking 8: Outdoor enclosures 9: Barnabas - the benefits of an outside enclosure 5: The Multi-Cat Household 1: The pitfalls of the multi-cat household 2: The social structure of the domestic cat 3: The 'Feline Felons' survey 4: Urine spraying 5: Floss - bed-wetting in the multi-cat household 6: Household soiling - urine 7: The litter tray of your cat's dreams 8: Inter-cat aggression in the multi-cat household 9: Tinker and Sinbad - sibling rivalry 10: Stress and the multi-cat household 11: Flora - a simple case 6: The Weird Cat 1: Zebedee - the wool eating Siamese 2: Dennis and the DM boot 3: Lily - the self-mutilating Persian 4: 'Kitty Prozac' 5: Nip - the penis-sucking cat 6: Baldrick - the masturbating cat 7: Ceefor - the tail-chasing cat 7: The Human-Cat Bond 1: Chester - the attention-seeking cat 2: Billy - the over-attached cat 3: George - the under-attached cat 4: Twinkle - a distressing case 5: The positive side 8: The Elderly and Disabled Cat 1: Mary Stewart - the cat with two and a half legs 2: The Elderly Cat Survey 3: Nutrition 4: Sleep 5: Territorial and outside activities 6: Cat companionship 7: The owner-cat relationship 8: Night-time vocalization 9: Play 10: Grooming 11: Toilet habits 12: Percy - house-soiling in the elderly cat 13: Senility 14: Milly - the senile cat 15: Age-related illness 16: Living with an elderly cat 17: Caring for the elderly cat 9: Coping with Bereavement 1: Pain and suffeirng 2: Bereavement and grief 3: Grief 4: The expression of grief 10: Me and My Pedigrees 11: Things Your Cat Would Want You to Know 2: Epilogue 3: Acknowledgements