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Environmental Enrichment is Essential for Siberian cats. This intelligent, active, and affiliation seeking, medium to large sized breed will become bored, stressed, overweight without the proper safety, challenges, and stimulation in their environment. When humans made the choice to keep cats indoor instead of roaming miles a day, we accepted the responsibility for meeting the mental, emotional, social, and physical needs cats historically met themselves by roaming, exploration, hunting, and...

# 1 Best Friend.  This is the best strategy for most kittens.  Having a feline buddy is physically and emotionally beneficial for cats.  It is simplest to provide that best friend from the beginning / early on.

#2 Activities & Enrichment

Play Aggression

Also called "play-fighting," (play aggression) starts at an early age with littermates, or with non-related kittens sharing a household, but is not confined to kittens. Cats have a natural instict for survival, whether in the wild or in a cushy home, and early-on are taught predator-prey behavior by their mothers.

ForestWind Viviene Ianisha Sultanova is only 8 months old in this photo,  and she already looks like an adult Siberian! This is unusual even for a male Siberian cat. Siberians are a slow maturing breed, developing adult physical traits over their first five years. The Siberians' gradual pace in maturing seems to be matched b...

3. Make sure my water is fresh daily. Please wash my water container daily and disinfect it at least weekly! I like fountains - they are a fun way to keep my water tasting good!

6. Hagen Catit Design Senses Play Circuit

Ian and Freddy love this. They will each take an end and wack the ball back and forth to each other. We have two of these connected to make a longer and more enjoyable circuit for them

In honour of the 12 Days of Christmas - from 26 December until Ephiphany on 6 January - The ForestWind Siberian Cats bring Your Their Holiday Top Ten  (well, Top 12 - after all, cats are not purrfect at arithmetic ; ). Forthwith, their first requests....

12. Smart Cat brand's Ulti...

Siberian cats are very close to the natural "wild" state of Felis Catus (Felis silvestris catus). As such, they exibit many traits of the natural cat.  This healthy behavior is one of their charms, and these native tendencies are also one of their needs.  When you provide the activities and options your Siberian needs and enjoys, you will keep her healthy, happy, and protect your home (belongings) all at the same time.

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