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Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science and an autism advocate. Born on August 29, 1947, she has made significant contributions to the understanding of autism and animal welfare through her groundbreaking research. Grandin's innovative designs, such as the 'hug box,' have improved livestock handling practices. She is also an author and speaker, sharing her experiences and insights on autism and animal welfare with the world.

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Famous Temple Grandin Quotes

“Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.”

Book:Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.”

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“here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.”

Way Want Doe Certain Social Dog Please Cat Hyper Cat And Dog

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“You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.”

People Thinking Cat Train Trusted Just Friends

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“Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called "Clicker Magic". There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.”

Done Motivation Courses Magic Dog Scene Training Cat Train Video Agility

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“I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.”

Ifs Two Next Cat Boxes Mess Simplest

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“Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put a thin piece of plastic down under a litter box and the cat walks on it and starts to slip, they don't like that. Any animal doesn't like an unstable floor.”

Ifs Different Certain Walks Animal Pieces Cat Boxes Slips Plastic Unstable

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“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.”

People Kind Sometimes Asks Strange Periods Cat Boxes Ask Me

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“Some cats don't like different types of kitty litter. So might try different types of kitty litter sometimes that works. You know, they don't like one type that sticks to the paws and they don't like it.”

Knows Trying Different Sometimes Might Type Cat Sticks Paws Kitties Kitty Litter

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“It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Littles Different Might Bits Little Bit Cat Strain Slippery Paws Kitties Kitty Litter

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“I want to make sure to fix these obvious things - like keeping the box CLEAN! Another thing that might affect this [cats going outside the litter box] is if you put the litter box in a laundry room where people are walking by there all the time, the cat might feel kinda too exposed. When you gotta poop, you know, it takes a little longer. You want a little more privacy.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Littles Might Rooms Walking Cat Clean Obvious Boxes Privacy Exposed Laundry Poop Obvious Things

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“Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.”

Thinking Want Hands Doors Cat Boxes Basements

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“A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.”

Different Social Stuff Animal Dog Please Cat Praise Hyper

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“A cat you train with clicker training and what you've got to do is pair the click with a food reward. And he's doing the stuff because you get a food reward. Once you can do it all after a lot training with no food reward.”

Stuff Training Cat Train Rewards Pairs Clicks

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“The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.”

Social Can Do Dog Training Cat Rewards You Can Do It

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“You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.”

Mean Age Young Cat Young Age

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“You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.”

Want Needs Cat Kitten Barns Tamed

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“Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.”

Knows Way Want Kind Littles Problem Might Kids Three Bits Hurt Animal Know How Study Dog Little Bit Cat Ears Communicate Instant It Hurts Buddy Sensory Autistic Three Ways Best Buddies

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“Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.”

Ifs Giving Wells Mean Has Beens Sides Animal Quality Groups Cat Lays Shelter Housing Stressed Stressed Out Quality Time

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“If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.”

Ifs Knows Littles Cat Bottom Chests Relaxed Kitties

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“I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.”

Thinking Knows Looks Littles Body Eye Animal Dog Picks Cat Ears Horse Tense Posture Communicators Good Behavior

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