What affects us affects cats
There are so many different ways to name a cat. In this post I am more interested in the process of naming a cat than the name itself although they are closely related. For instance, I tend to name cats on gut feel and sound. The name reflects the character and appearance of the …
My Shrimpster is an unassuming red tabby. Rescued at five weeks, he had both upper and lower respiratory infections so severe, eyes glued shut, that he was left blind in his left eye and unable to “meow” until he was three yrs old. He looks up at me, eyes wide, opening his freckled mouth …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra Reading another PoC article about cats and goldfish prompted me to look out some old photos of our cats Walter and Jozef with the 3 goldfish we had until a few years ago. Walter was a very hyperactive kitten and needed a lot of amusing. Jozef did his best to …
After a brutal winter of endless confinement and mild depression what does a big black domestic cat do in London, England when the first warm days arrive? This is what mine did. It’s a simple, but I hope, subtle, basic movie, which I think conveys something of the pleasures that a cat derives from …
What was a Canada lynx doing in England, UK, roaming around Devon attacking companion animals? It is probably going to be impossible to answer that question because it all happened 110 years ago! That, in itself, is interesting because at the time people didn’t know what the cat was. However, it was shot – …
By Elisa Black-Taylor This a cute little story I came across of a brave rescue which took place last week in Toledo, Ohio, where a cat saved his dog companion. Sammy the cat and Izzy the terrier are friends, and Sammy allows Izzy to chase him. Of course, Sammy always has higher ground to …
Someone seriously asked this question and the answers were serious too. One of the answers was to not feed your cats goldfish bought from Wal-Mart because the goldfish may have been supplied by China, in which case they could be full of melamine or some other toxic substance. Buy them somewhere else, he said. This …
People who don’t like cats criticise the species for being nasty and mean because they play with their prey, which is usually a mouse. Harrison Weir, the founder of the cat fancy, calls this “The Cat as a Tormentor”. He quotes Shakespeare, in his poem “The Rape of Lucrece”, saying: “Yet foul night-waking cat, …
