What affects us affects cats
By Elisa Black-Taylor Attention social petworkers! Petworking is an internet activity where pet owners pretend to be their pet and make other pet friends online. The idea has been around for many years now and there are several online sites that cater to dogs, cats, horses and other pets. I’d like to explain a …
I love cats with babies. It is innocence with innocence. It is instinctive behavior with instinctive behavior. It is raw. It is not controlled, messed up adult human stuff. But there are pitfalls. It shows up the differences between the two species: felis silvestris catus and homo sapiens. This is a page of selected cats …
By Elisa Black-Taylor October 16 is National Feral Cat Day. In honor of this special holiday, I’d like to tell you about our cat Renny. Renny came to us as a six week old kitten back in July of 2011. He was one of the few we didn’t lose to the panleuk outbreak. We …
This is another cat picture gallery of some of the best cat pictures in the public domain¹. One of them is not of a cat as it happens. It is a picture of a sign posted up by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Sounds boring but when you read it you’ll see that …
An Abyssinian cat picture gallery of ten carefully selected pictures to show blue and ruddy coats, the ticked coat and a bit of Abyssinian cat history. They are a mixture of professionally taken photos of show cats by Helmi Flick and some by Flickr photographers. There are also two drawings! One of the pictures is …
This is a giveaway for one free 11 inch by 14 inch canvas print from Printcopia – the price on their website is $59.08 (USD) at the date of this post. It has to be a North American person (USA or Canada) because the company only ship to people in the continental United States …
I don’t think a website about cats can avoid writing about the hazards of traffic on the roads. Normally we refer to it as one of the dangers confronting an indoor/outdoor cat. Being hit by a car is probably the single biggest danger to the domestic cat in the world after being “euthanised” at …
When you buy your next cashmere jumper please ask whether it is Certified Wildlife Friendly™. It is sure to produce a blank, bemused response! However, if it is and you buy it, you will be helping the beautiful and endangered Andean cat at the same time if the cashmere was sourced from northern Patagonia …
