https://firstcatguide.click/guides/Recent content in Guides on First Cat Guide — Bringing Home Your First Cat Without GuessingHugoenTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://firstcatguide.click/guides/setting-up-before-the-cat-arrives/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://firstcatguide.click/guides/setting-up-before-the-cat-arrives/<h2 id="buy-less-than-you-think-set-up-more-carefully">Buy Less Than You Think, Set Up More Carefully</h2> <p>The standard first-cat shopping trip produces a heap of things the cat will ignore — a plush igloo bed, a bag of assorted toys, a covered litter box that looks tidy — and misses the handful of decisions that actually matter. Cats are not fussy about luxury and are extremely fussy about layout.</p>https://firstcatguide.click/guides/the-first-two-weeks/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://firstcatguide.click/guides/the-first-two-weeks/<h2 id="the-cat-is-not-rejecting-you">The Cat Is Not Rejecting You</h2> <p>A cat that spends its first three days flattened behind a wardrobe has not decided anything about you. It has been removed from everything familiar — smells, sounds, surfaces, routine — and dropped somewhere completely unknown, and its species-appropriate response to unknown territory is to stop moving, stay hidden, and gather information.</p>https://firstcatguide.click/guides/reading-your-cat/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://firstcatguide.click/guides/reading-your-cat/<h2 id="cats-are-not-subtle-we-are-just-not-watching">Cats Are Not Subtle, We Are Just Not Watching</h2> <p>The common claim that cats are mysterious mostly means we learned dog signals first. Dogs broadcast: whole-body wagging, obvious faces. Cats communicate in smaller movements — ear angle, tail tip, pupil width, a shift in weight — and the information is all there once you know what to look at.</p>