{"id":4910,"date":"2009-11-12T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2009-11-02T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:56:08","slug":"building-a-peaceable-kingdom-between-cats-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/building-a-peaceable-kingdom-between-cats-and-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"“Building a Peaceable Kingdom Between Cats and Dogs”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Competability\"<\/a>This is the subtitle of Competability<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Amy Shojai. She notes that there\u00a0has always been\u00a0much less research about cats and even less about the relationships of cats and dogs living in the same household.<\/p>\n

She traces the integration of dogs (first) then cats into human families and how far domestication has gone in each species. Their senses affect their behavior; a fascinating chapter details how the dog’s extreme sense of smell and\u00a0a cat’s\u00a0powerful hearing affect how they relate to each other.<\/p>\n

She also explains how an action such as rolling over is interpreted completely different by a cat and a dog. (Cats roll over to fight and dogs roll over in submission). Or tail wagging: “The dog approaching with a friendly wag is interpreted by the cat to be ready to attack; and the dog seeing the waving feline tail thinks it’s an invitation to approach and can’t understand why Kitty breaks the rules and slaps his nose.”<\/p>\n

This book\u00a0 helps to\u00a0bridge the communication gap – the largest being between humans and the canine\/feline world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the subtitle of Competability by Amy Shojai. She notes that there\u00a0has always been\u00a0much less research about cats and even less about the relationships of cats and dogs living in the same household. She traces the integration of dogs (first) then cats into human families and how far domestication[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[900,138,225,898,534,343],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-canines","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-felines","tag-home","tag-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}