Fit Cat: Tips and Tricks to Give Your Pet a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life

by Arden Moore

A customized guide to all things C.A.T.

Household cats are happy to lie about, preferably in a sunny spot, their only effort a trip to the food bowl or litter box. It is up to their humans to keep them healthy, physically active and mentally engaged. Fit Cat provides cat owners with a road map to the best care they can give their feline companions.

In 14 chapters, the book covers every part of a cat's life. There is information seldom covered in cat books -- such as budgeting, staying in hotels, assessing health at home and reducing anxiety -- and also includes problem solving and more than a dozen games that will engage even the laziest of cats.

Topics include:

How Healthy is Your Cat? - veterinarian, medications
Knowing Your Cat - feline emotions, popular breeds, what gestures and meows reveal
Grooming and Hygiene - hair, nails, teeth and gums
Food and Nutrition - portion size, foods, treats, weight
Behavior Issues - tackling problem behaviors like attacking ankles and waking you up
Basic and Advanced Tricks - training command, cat psychology
The Indoor Life - scratching posts, beds, play
Litter Training - litter boxes, cleaning, solving problems like going outside the box
Travel - airplanes, boats, hotels, anxiety, kitty-proofing a hotel room
Pet First Aid - emergencies, CPR, first aid kit, bleeding, bee stings, burns
Socializing - cat to cat, cat to dog, cat to people, cat to spouse/mate/guest, cats and birds
Budgeting - how to lower expenses, what never to cut out, homemade toys, pet insurance
The Early Years - kitten care
The Senior Years - tips, pet-proof the house, dementia, euthanasia, adopting a senior cat, feline trivia.
There are at least 74 million and as many as 96 million pet cats in America alone. More than 2.7 million people "like" cats on Facebook. For millions of cat lovers who want only to give their pets a long, happy and healthy life. Fit Cat has the expert advice and guidance to do just that.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cats

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2015

About the author

Arden Moore is an animal behavior consultant and the author of 20 books on cats and dogs, including What Dogs Want. She has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, CNN Headline News, HGTV's "Smart Solution," Martha Stewart Living Radio, NPR and hundreds of other programs. She has been the editor of Fido Friendly and Catnip magazines, and host of "Oh Behave!" weekly radio show on Pet Life Radio.com.

Reviews

[Mollie Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent kitty tips & tricks book. She has the basics plus. Good advise for any cat person, whether experienced or not.

[Wednesday · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is straight forward and easy to read. I love the recipes to make your own cat food/treats

[Miss Ryoko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this book made me feel like I'm failing horribly as a cat mommy :-s This book had some good insights that I didn't know before, and a lot of it made me wish I could have read this 15 years ago. My oldest cat will be 16 in May and my youngest will be 11 in June, so they're both getting up there, so having some of this knowledge before now would have been good, but at least I have it and can hopefully enrich the remaining years of my babies' lives.

If you have a cat that is your heart and soul, definitely give this a little read. Some of the information is obvious, but there is a lot of really helpful and useful tidbits as well!

[Evelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. This book was so awesome! It took me a while to read but only because I would read a page or two here and there and I was competing with my two kids to read this (who were discussing the topics with our cat to let him know about cat stuff). Every page had good info on it and we all loved the dozens and dozens of pictures of cats throughout this book. If you need to read a book about cats, this is the one! LOVED it!

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Both of my cats can now sit, sit up, and high five! For that reason alone this book gets 4 stars.

[Lorna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I usually enjoy books about cats and this one has an easy to read format and lots of interesting photos. Many tips are given on how to make a feline friend forever.

[Katra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very helpful kitty-read. I'm now following preliminary steps to get Grace some dental hygiene. - Seems to be working!

[Domi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Must read pro všechny kočkomilovníky. :)
3,5*