{"id":19690,"date":"2011-02-28T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19690\/group-therapy-cats\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:53:07","slug":"group-therapy-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19690\/group-therapy-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Therapy For Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing this blog as a distraction from the paper I want to finish by tomorrow morning.\u00a0 My topic is \u201cGreat activities for chemical dependency group therapy\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done the hardest part, namely determining what ten activities I want to write about, and so I thought I could use a little distraction in the form of a video blog.\u00a0 My cats were obliging and I figured out a way to actually tie this frivolous cat video into what I\u2019m writing about!
\n<\/span>See, my cats have been experiencing some relationship issues with one another.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I have two cats, Barry and Bliss.\u00a0 They were both fairly young when I got them and generally get along very well.\u00a0 In fact, they\u2019re like brother and sister.\u00a0 Despite both being black cats, they are not related.\u00a0 Maybe they\u2019re like husband and wife.\u00a0 Eventhough they\u2019re both fixed, Barry regularly sniffs Bliss\u2019s butt, checking if she\u2019s in heat.\u00a0 Must be an instinctual thing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They sleep on top of one another, occasionally play with one another and have no food competition.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even compete for my attention, but I do have lots to give.\u00a0 Recently, the introduction of a new element has made matters tense.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I bought a cat toy.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those \u201cfeathers on a \"\"flexible stick\u201d toys that I know they\u2019ve enjoyed in the past, particularly Barry who is the more rambunctious of the two.\u00a0 A weird thing happened when I brought the toy into the new apartment, which due to its size, requires that the cats be in much closer proximity to each other more often then they\u2019ve ever been before.\u00a0 Barry got possessive of the toy.\u00a0 He\u2019d have it in his mouth, and would growl like a dog at Bliss if she even got near or looked at him.\u00a0 Today, after the toy had reappeared after making a one-week hiatus behind the bed, he actually hissed at her when he had the toy in his paws and she got interested.\u00a0 Hissing!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whoahh!\u00a0 Hissing?\u00a0 Unacceptable.\u00a0 As a concerned cat\/parent, I wondered what this behavior meant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As I kept searching for group activities for this paper, I came up with an idea, something that might bring the cats closer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019m exaggerating.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think it would be therapeutic.\u00a0 I just thought it would make for interesting video.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Presenting:\u00a0 GROUP THERAPY FOR CATS!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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I am not going to denigrate my cats by calling them dumb, but there is a reason why humans are often so amazed when cats express their native intelligence (which they possess but only display when they want something)\u2026<\/p>\n

I tell ya, with all the bickering and drama\u00a0 I\u2019ve witnessed in the last few weeks here on the FriendBurst blogs, I think we could all use some group therapy!<\/p>\n

Anyways, back to writing the paper (this blog was about half the length I\u2019ll need for my assignment!). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing this blog as a distraction from the paper I want to finish by tomorrow morning.\u00a0 My topic is \u201cGreat activities for chemical dependency group therapy\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done the hardest part, namely determining what ten activities I want to write about, and so I thought I could use a little distraction in the form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[541,1617,81],"class_list":["post-19690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-life","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-joko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}