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The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) is a small carnivorous mammal that is often valued by humans for its companionship. The cat is intelligent and can be trained to obey simple commands. Individual cats have also been known to learn to manipulate simple mechanisms. Many people characterize cats as 'solitary' animals. However, cats are actually highly social. The sort of social relationship cats have with their human keepers is hard to map onto more generalized wild cat behavior, but it is certain that the cat thinks of the human differently than it does other cats . This can be seen in the difference in body and vocal language it uses with the human . Some have suggested that, psychologically, the human keeper of a cat is a sort of surrogate for the cat's mother, and that adult domestic cats live forever in a kind of suspended kittenhood. Domestic cats, especially young kittens, are known for their love of string play……so come and join with us to play with them…………….Shiva