What affects us affects cats
By Elisa Black-Taylor Michael wrote about the mystery Detroit cat recently. He said it was probably a first generation Savannah cat. Marc said this: If this cat showed up at mine I’d feed it and try to protect it from getting shot or euthanised having been trapped. Well, the inevitable has happened…… Residents of …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Nafas was only a year old when he was found last October, curled up under a car on a busy street in Tehran. A good Samaritan rescued the filthy cat, who had an infected mass and was very emaciated. X-rays showed the cat had been living on pebbles and sticks to …
Jozef is 12 years old today but we will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow as it hasn’t been a very good day for him. We have been out fund raising for Cats Protection so he and Walter had to stay in, they were not happy boyz. Poor Jo’s birthday started with a furball and …
Joan Johnson from the South Bucks branch of the RSPCA, “the leading UK animal welfare charity”, says we should not feed feral cats despite the temptation to help. How, then are people who care about feral cats going to be able to successfully manage feral cat colonies? I would have thought that feeding feral …
Introduction We are in Northern (Turkish) Cyprus (see map for location) today to have a look at some of Harvey Harrison’s 37 cats. Yes, he cares for 37 cats. That puts him in the top rank of cat carekers. No wonder he knows a lot about cats, especially Turkish Angoras. Dee, in Florida, sounds …
Dr Overall1 says, “I think we’ve got an epidemic of understimulated cats whose intellectual needs aren’t being met”. She believes that not enough people recognise the intelligence in cats. For her, the most important need for a cat is the intellectual one. Temple Grandin in “Animals Make Us Human” writes that “cats are genetically …
A video showing the cheetah (world’s fastest land animal) in slo mo compared to the world’s fastest dog, the greyhound. The cheetah wins hands-down of course. Although this is not a race. The cheetah is designed for speed not endurance. Perhaps the greyhound has greater endurance. In terms of speed and endurance the most …
There is no hard evidence to support the stories that a cat’s character can be determined by coat colour. Likewise there is nothing to support the idea that black cats are unlucky or, rarely, lucky. People like to stereotype animals and people of a certain colour. Is the “black cat syndrome” an extension of …
