How to help cats get fit?

Cats doing yoga

Yoga is no longer exclusive to humans. Cats can also practice yoga, and their postures are standard and they can become teachers and sparring partners for us humans. This is a great match for female friends. In other words, it can be regarded as a benefit. Just imagine, when you are practicing yoga in the training room, there is a cute cat as your companion. Looking at it should greatly stimulate your desire to train, and the effect will be greatly improved! ? We always complain that cats like to lie down and refuse to move. In fact, as long as people train them properly, you will find that cats are more active than you imagine, and the enviable flexibility of their bodies also allows them to easily control them. Yoga is a difficult fitness exercise. Fitness can undoubtedly bring health to cats, enhance their physical fitness, and immunize them against diseases. It is also very beautiful to take out a cat that can do yoga.

Amy Apgar is a Prana Yoga teacher in New York. In the MeowParlour cat-themed cafe, there were 10 people sitting behind her, all of whom came to learn cat-style yoga. While the place is usually reserved for people drinking coffee, interacting with cats, and eating cat-faced macarons, it always closes for an hour and a half every Tuesday for some cat-themed exercise. ??

There are two cats next to Apgar. One is sleeping on the chess and card box above her head, and the other is sitting in the storage box next to her and looking at her. The trainees were all women, because few men would pay to have intimate activities with cats. Being the proud cat slave that I am, I pretended not to smell the faint smell of a huge trash can in the room. You may be thinking that you can learn to do yoga with your cat at home by watching free yoga videos on YouTube, so why spend the money? I came here not because the usual yoga classes are full, but because this experience is special and can be shared with friends as a fun story. People who hear it may ask you, "Do cats come back to do yoga with you?" Each one-and-a-half-hour class includes 30 minutes of bonding with the cat, 45 minutes of yoga, and 15 minutes of new love. Farewell cat people. However, people who like cats should know that they sleep 12 to 16 hours a day, so it is very likely that you will encounter cats taking a nap when you come to Meow Parlour. But we can get close to them when they are preparing to sleep with their paws in their hands, and whisper to them gently: "You are so cute! I really want to take you home. Oh my god, look at your paws, they are so cute." Such words affect their sleepiness. ?

Do yoga with cats

Not only in cat cafes, but also in some animal shelters, cat yoga seems to be more convenient. Yoga for cats in Illinois, USA Classroom Yoga at Connie's has partnered with Homeward Bound, a local zero-culling animal shelter, to hold a special yoga class where several adult cats waiting for adoption can move freely in the class. ? The existence of a cat is a kind of healing in itself. According to Scientist magazine, cats’ purring also has the effect of stimulating growth and healing of bones and muscles; people who have cats as companions are also less likely to suffer from heart disease than the average person. 40%. ? Jeanette Skaluba, a shelter volunteer who initiated this event, said that many people think that animal shelters are depressing places, so few people take the initiative to visit; by bringing cats to yoga classes, people can have the opportunity to spend time with them. Interacting outside of the shelter gives the cats a chance to show their faces and personalities, and allows everyone to imagine what the cats might look like at home. ? On the other hand, the photos of yoga cats are also very attractive. At the end of 2009, American photographer Dan Boris and his wife had a sudden idea and took a group of "yoga cats" and made the photos into a calendar. This set of yoga cat calendars is popular in Europe and America. ?

Yoga Cat

Boris’s wife was a yoga instructor before, but this time her students became lively cats. During the filming process, she coaxed the little animals to assume movements and postures that were as close to yoga as possible. After Boris took the real images, he then used computer software to process them for several hours before finally completing them. Boris said that after photographing cats, he had an unprecedented respect for their flexibility. ? Of course, some people will say, my cat doesn’t like to move, how can I train it to get up and exercise? We can use the game method. It is very difficult to define the scope of the game. In fact, the game just refers to a form of entertainment. Cats often incorporate some daily activities into the game, such as hunting, fighting, escaping, and even cruel behavior. Hunting behavior contains game elements, and kittens often play the roles of hunter and prey to learn hunting skills. Don’t be in a hurry when training. Start with the simplest things, such as walking or walking. Then slowly transition to some difficult and technical moves. Guide the cat to do exercises, and don’t do it for three days and stop three times. Once you start training, you should start with the most basic and dumbest. As the cat’s experience increases and its bones become more solid and stable, you can then teach it some yoga movements. I believe it will learn it soon.

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