Ticket 3

Cat behaviour

Vicky Halls is a “cat behaviour counsellor”. The idea of such a person

would have been difficult to understand to those brought up on Rudyard
Kipling, who plainly didn’t think much of cats and thought they could
manage perfectly well without humans. Cats in those days were generally
thought effeminate anyway, not like manly dogs. We know better now, yet
it’s still surprising how little we understand them.
Vicky Halls was often called in to sort out some indoor cat that made
a mess all over the house . Most of us would have got rid of the cat but
Vicky investigated and discovered that either it was frightened of another
cat in the household, or was missing a dead one, or was jealous of other cats
or of humans, or it couldn’t stand the wood chips in its litter tray.
Sometimes the problem is obvious enough, as in the case of a cat
called Chester whose owner let him sleep with her when her husband was
away . Short after that, Chester didn’t even consider sleeping in his basket
and they had to call Vicky. She prescribed a range of devices to distract the
cat: a few card boxes to hide in, or a high shelf to sit on, an armchair near a
window with a nice view.

Answer the following questions:

1)What did Rudyard Kipling thing of cats?

2)What did Vicky discover about the cats having a bad behavior?
3)What did she prescribe for Chester?

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