The mysterious behavior of cats:

A cat's behavior is comprised of many unexpected and sometimes mysterious things. Learning to understand their behavior is the key to learning how to train them. Cats have a tendency to be possessive and protective of their territory because they have a very acute sense of smell. This sense develops even before a kitten can see or hear, making it a very important sense during their early days. It helps them to recognize their own home from the rest.

The different scents that cats experience during their kitten hood are important for their development and adjustment as they grow up. Cats learn to relate the smell of something with an event which, depending on how good or bad that first experience was, will pretty much establish what their reaction to it will be once they detect that same scent later in life. Early socialization, then, becomes very important in a kitten's development. Cats should be exposed to all kinds of scents. A positive experience with a specific scent will create a positive relation between the cat's behavior and the particular smell. A negative experience, on the other hand, will create a negative relation between the event and the scent. In fact, such negative scents can even provoke violent and aggressive reactions.

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