Cat Confidential

The author of Cat Confidential, Cat Detective and Cat Counsellor Vicky Halls is one of the UK's leading cat behaviour specialists. She is currently working on a major television series on this subject. She lives in Kent.

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