What affects us affects cats
This is a list of quotes from vets, scientists and specialists on one topic: Declawing often leads to litter box aversion. The quotes come from the Save Our Paws website. “In some cases, when declawed cats use the litterbox after surgery, their feet are so tender they associate their new pain with the box… permanently, …
More than half of US cats and dogs are overweight. Here is an “infographic” (poster) from Petsafe on this important subject. PoC search result for the word “obese”. The link shows a list of articles related to cat obesity.
Do kleptocats tells us something about cat behaviour and the instinctive drives within our domestic cats? Dusty is an American kleptocat and Norris is an English kleptocat. Norris lives in Bristol, England. He is a two year old tabby. He roams the Bristol suburb, Bedminster, where he lives and “steals” anything and everything from …
Hot weather can result in uncool cats. In the UK, when the weather is genuinely summery we are pleased but one downside for cat lovers is that their cat is more likely to go walkabout and not come back. There has been a 13% increase in lost cats in the UK for the months …
Instagram is meant to be a website where people share photos with ease. It is an extension of Facebook where you share words (and photos). Coming, as I have, from a different generation to modern man but still being relatively young in mind, I think there is too much of what I would call …
Sir Ernest Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a famous polar explorer. He led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He failed to become the first to reach the south pole. That honour went to Amundsen a Norwegian who used dogs in 1911. Shackleton was knighted for getting to within 112 miles of …
Please click on the audio player immediately below (click the little triangle at the left of the bar below these words) and listen to my explanation for why Grumpy Cat – aka Tardar Sauce – has the facial expression that she has. This is an alternative file type if the player fails: If the …
Black pumas are melanistic pumas (aka: cougars, mountain lions). They are also called black panthers. Melanistic leopards and jaguars are also called black panthers. Jordan Carlton Schaul of the University of Alaska says that black jaguarundis are also referred to as black panthers. I have never heard of that before. I think he is …
