Your Cat Vanishes When the Carrier Comes Out. Here Is How to Change That
The carrier comes down from the top of the wardrobe and, before you have even put it…
Training problems usually have less to do with stubbornness than with what the dog has actually learned, and the research on this is more useful than the folklore. Why a dog ignores you outdoors but not indoors, why adolescence undoes things that seemed solid, why a dog only responds when he can see food: each has a documented explanation and a practical fix. These guides cover behaviour and training for dogs and cats, built from peer-reviewed studies and the guidance of recognised welfare organisations, with the reasoning shown so you can judge it.

The carrier comes down from the top of the wardrobe and, before you have even put it…

You get up to fill the kettle and he gets up too. You go to the bathroom…

It starts on the landing. One cat pounces, the other rolls, there is a blur of legs…

He waits until you sit down. Then a sock goes past at head height, tail up, eyes…

She walks along the table to your glass of water. She sits beside it. She looks at…

You walk past the bedroom door and something hits your ankle at speed. Front paws wrapped round,…

It cost fifteen pounds, it has six compartments and a sliding lid, and it has been sitting…

The doorbell goes and she is gone. Not walking away, gone, a grey streak heading for the…

It happens in about four seconds. Screaming, fur in the air, one cat under the bed and…

Ten to five. Not six, not half past four. Ten to five, near enough every morning, and…