100 Ways to Understand Your Cat

Roger Tabor has written many books on cats, presented television series and produced videos on them. He has also been seen on many other television programmes, including Country File, and has also been a past editor of Countryside magazine. He lives in Brightlingsea, Essex.

Introduction 1 - 16 How Cats Work Including, movement, teeth and claws, the senses, brain, nervous system, genetics, learning Feature spreads: from nose to tail in detail, a cat's intellect 17 - 27 A Cat's Life Including: territories and marking, hunting, sleeping, grooming, stretching Feature spreads: the search for food, cats and prey 28 - 39 Cat Families Including: reproductive systems, courtship and mating, birth, caring for kittens Feature spreads: the cat as a fertility symbol, kitten development 40 - 57 Cat Behaviour and Communication Including: play, facial expressions, signals, fighting, meowing, chirping and trilling, purring and hissing, eye contact Feature spreads: relationships between cats, scrapping 58 - 80 Keeping Cats Including: why keep cats, characteristics, breed v. moggy, feeding, cat flaps, neutering Feature spreads: why do cats like us?, breed characteristics 81 - 100 Cat Troubles Including: fleas, excessive grooming, fouling and spraying indoors, rough play, fat cats, roaming Feature spreads: moggies make great pets, cats and the supernatural Index