The original reason for the domestication of cats was to protect food supplies from rodents. Although this is no longer required of the majority of cats, hunting remains a permanent part of their lives. As regards motivation, along with the urge to procreate and to defend their patch, the hunting instinct is one of the most distinctive behavioural patterns in cats. The desire to hunt is not governed by hormones and therefore does not diminish after neutering.
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Being strictly carnivorous, in the wild cats feed on the flesh of the prey they have killed and on the vegetable content of its stomach. The importance of hunting even to a cat that is fed becomes easy to understand once we take a closer look at its anatomy and sensory organs.
Even if cats that are fed hunt less than those who have to hunt to survive, the feeling of being full and well fed does not cause a cat to give up hunting altogether. It finds the activity itself so exciting and rewarding that it continues to hunt even when it has no need to.
This is why a well-fed cat will often kill its prey and leave it. When living with a cat, we have to accept this trait as one of its primary needs and should on no account prevent it. Cats engage in three to ten hours a day of typical hunting behaviour (locating prey, lying in wait, pouncing, killing), and this should be borne in mind when keeping domestic cats.
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Hunting play","text":"Hunting play","acceptedAnswer":"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Answer","text":"When a cat is playing, it can clearly be seen tossing into the air any toys that are lying around or rolling them back and forth along the ground. It also deliberately stows them away under a box etc. and then later \u2013 even a few days later \u2013 comes back and waits patiently in front of the box, fishing at this hiding place with its paw. Likewise, feral cats will return again and again to familiar mouse holes and sit in front of them. It would therefore seem that these are more than just innocuous games \u2013 the cat is engaging in hunting behaviour."}Playing with its prey
One theory is that a cat does this to protect itself from the sharp incisors of its prey. However, some researchers see it as stemming from the pent-up hunting instinct of domesticated cats. The latter explanation is supported by the fact that such behaviour is not found in wild cats or feral cats, with the sole exception of mothers bringing their young living prey in order to train them as hunters.
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Licking fabric","text":"Licking fabric","acceptedAnswer":"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Answer","text":"Over and over again, we see cats pulling strands out of a frayed toy (be careful with such toys \u2013 swallowing the fringes can be life-threatening for a cat!) or busily licking other playthings made of fabric. Both activities are part and parcel of the animal\u2019s natural hunting behaviour. Before a cat can get at a bird\u2019s flesh, there are feathers to be torn out. It also uses its sharp tongue to tear away some of its prey\u2018s skin."}The above examples demonstrate clearly that even an indoor cat that is not constantly confronted with stimuli prompting it to pursue and catch prey has within it the hunting instinct and the desire to act on it.
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A decade ago, the distinction of choosing hunting stock or a competition stock would have been rather straightforward. On one side you had a small sleek stock with a classic design and two sling studs. On the other, you had beefy stocks with adjustable cheekpieces, length of pull, vertical grips, and wide forearms. Like anything in life, the division was never black and white because the stocks were an amalgam of designs taken from hunting, competition, and military influences. Today, the riches in materials such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, aluminum, and other composites offer shooters a greater variety of stocks that blur the lines between categories, hunting stocks now incorporate some competition features and competition stocks are light enough to be used for hunting.
Regardless of the great variations in design, the classic hunting stock is still the underpinning blueprint of a hunting stock. The classic hunting stock design is characterized by a straight comb from the flute to the heel, a swept back pistol grip, a slim rounded forearm, and two sling studs. The straight comb keeps the eyeline close to the bore for the low riding optical sights and is in line with the recoil forces.
Typically, hunting stocks were designed to fit the average human body. They have fixed length of pull, fixed pistol grip angle, have top feed magazines, and sling studs. For shooters that were larger or smaller than average, they had to adapt to the rifle.
Over the years, stock makers have modified the comb, drop of the heel, length of pull, angle of the pistol grip to make a rifle shoulder smoothly, acquire game quickly, and handle recoil more efficiently. The classic design and its iterations are still popular and effective and can be found in most hunting rifle lines from Weatherby to Mossberg.
Competition stocks are made from fiberglass, carbon fiber, aluminum, composites and a hybrid of these materials. What distinguishes them from a hunting stock is that they are more robustly built, allow the shooter to finetune the fit through adjustable buttstock components, have multiple attachment points for accessories, use vertical pistol grips, have a wide, flat forend, and use box magazines.
By using a partial chassis, the stocks provide a rigid platform where it is most important for the ultimate accuracy and consistency. These stocks all have adjustable buttstock components, a few M-LOK slots on the forend, and use a box magazine.
Hunters are also influencing chassis manufacturers whose bread and butter have been competition stocks. They are designing lighter stocks with limited features yet maintaining their innovations for a hunting platform.
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