Do Cats Have Sense of Geographical Coordinates?

There are plenty of documented cases of cats finding their way home over long distances, say when owners have moved house taking the cat with them, the cat has returned to it's former home.

I of course have a fine sense of noitcerid.

Del

Del, you should enter your co ordinates, alongwith your location Harlow England, to show your sense of geographical coordinates.

Cats have a good sense of direction, and cats like a constant environment and may get upset if you move something as simple as a chair. His preference for peeing has only to do with what he thinks is the boundaries of his territory, and smell.

As for making a mess on the carpet; if the pot was ever over-watered and some of the soil and water dripped on the carpet, the cat would smell the earth in the carpet.

Check this link to clean the carpet

Any moving chimes near the opening should keep the stray cat away.

I dont know the answer to your original question, but if you are trying to stop the cat peeing where it is currently doing so, then feeding the cat there will stop it from using the same area as a toilet. Cats seem to keep a good separation beween where they eat and where they toilet

Thanks Graham,

This could be the solution to a long standing problem I've had with cats: I've tried ultrasonic devices, and, all sorts of chemical repellents (the best seems to be orange peel, but, doesn't last very long).

Can anyone suggest some really cheap cat food?

Do not buy the cheapest. I had a cat that if I gave him cheap stuff, he would make the same motions around it as he did after "Potty", as if to say "This stuff is really shit tasting!"

The same cat went on the human toilet if nobody put the lid down. It it was down, then he would go on the bath plug hole......

Never think that cats are stupid, a few are but most are not.

After we moved house, he refused to stay at the new house (500 yards away from the old) and basically went half wild, but if he got injured, he came to visit, ate like a wolf, showed us the injury, went with us to the vets to get sewn up, came home and left home again immediately!!!!!!

I have a cat, which make noise by jumping on door bolt (requesting to open the door), if the door is closed from inside, after she comes back wandering outside.

Of course they do. Otherwise how do they know where the propety line is when no fence exist to mark the boundary. I have noticed this in three seperate locations I have lived in.

The cats know exactly where the boundary lies and will only chase intruders as far as the property line, no further. And in several instances we moved to a new place taking the cats with us. Within a week the cats know where the propety line is at the new place. We do not have fences dividing our part of the lawn from the neighbor's lawn.

Within a week the cats know where the propety line is at the new place. We do not have fences dividing our part of the lawn from the neighbor's lawn.

Is that because the dog next door already marked out the boundary?

Is that because the dog next door already marked out the boundary?

REPLY:: No dog or cat lived next door. And wildlife like squirrels do not mark territory by peeing on trees, bushes or posts. So how does the cat know when the squirrel is across the property line and he then stops chasing them.

Hi,

yes certainly they have,

we moved with our cat (in a basket) 5km,

next day she was seen near the old house but came back to the new house some days later, and subsequently went out for a visit of the old house nearly once a month.

This cat was half wild and came to us on search for food and after a while stayed permanently.

Recently published results show that in the brain of rats there is a triangular coordinate system. (Moser and Moser, University of Trondheim, Norway).

This coordinate system is implemented by specialised cells that fire a signal when the rat is at the point in known space that is represented by this cell. Learning in a new environment requires scanning of the new territory by multiply running across. This can be saved and stored for different locations!

RHABE

From observing cats:

they have a great snese of position and location.

they tend to follow specific paths to go from one place to another, and seem disturbed if the path is blocked or altered.

My guess, the cat got as close as it coud to it's old 'potty ground'.

My cats "Snese" from time to time too.....do cats suffer from Hay Fever?

Here it reminds me my experience few years back about the crows:

In our company, we had erected some huge water tank, on which few level switches are mounted. I used to go up the ladder to set some trim pots on the level switches. This was going fine, till the pair of crows built a nest on the tree near by.

Probably, when they lay the eggs in the nest, they started attacking me, whenever I tried to climb up. This went on for more than a month. As they were two crows, it was very difficult to to protect myself from their attack. My work was getting held up.

I thought of firing the crackers, while going up, to frighten them. But instead, I thought of putting some food for them indicating my no-bad intentions. But this didn't work.

But some how while trying to climb up, I started talking to crows, as if I was insane, that " I am climbing here to do my job, and I am not going to harm you. Why are you troubling me"... like it in soft language.

Surprising..... Crows stopped attacking me. Not only on that day, but they never attacked me any more.

You may not believe me... but it is MY experience.