After a clean bill of health, Kitty’s bad behavior and pestering are signs that she needs stimulation.

By Susan Easterly

Yawn! Like other preconceived notions, people often buy into the notion that indoor cats enjoy lying around the house all day doing nothing.

People generally have a stereotypical view of what a cat is like, says John Wright, PhD, a certified applied animal behaviorist and professor of psychology at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and author of Is Your Cat Crazy? “For some cats, lying around the house may be the cat’s meow, but for other cats it’s just not tolerable. The truth is, cats differ tremendously in terms of their activity and need for stimulation,” he says. …

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