What affects us affects cats
Cats are at risk of getting stung around the head and paws by poisonous insects because cats are curious. Normally, the sting will cause swelling and irritation. It can be dealt with fairly comfortably by the owner or perhaps a vet. Rarely a cat might be hypersensitive to insect stings such as a bee …
This is about a way to get people who sell cats to be more responsible and more concerned about cat welfare. People who sell cats are usually hobby breeders (selling purebred, pedigree cats from home) and pet shop owners who sell random bred cats in the high street (shopping malls). On the basis that …
We should be aware of what our cat gets up to when alone at home. The video below is a tough one to watch. There is no violence, just nothing but transparent loneliness and obvious separation anxiety. Heartbreaking. I was reading about a British, Channel 4 television program1. It concluded that an estimated one …
After we all here on PoC enjoyed seeing Kays Hill ginger cats and then black cats and sharing photos of our own and others we know, Leanne has sent the photos of these beautiful tortoiseshell cats and kittens for us to share. The colour patterns of torties (calicos in the USA) are brindled or …
In the USA you can buy a cat food product called a “premix”. You add it to raw fresh meat or cooked meat, perhaps minced beef, and voilà, you have a a diet that is much closer to a cat’s natural diet than manufactured cat food. It would certainly be a huge advance on …
By Elisa Black-Taylor This is an amazing story of cat survival, detailing an August 5 accident involving a couple who had restored an aft-house schooner and their two cats, who did a fine job proving that the domestic cat can swim very well in open sea well called upon to do so. On August …
By Elisa Black-Taylor A Mesa, Arizona serial catnapper (cat thief) was sentenced August 14 for catnapping a cat named Biscuit, although he admitted to Judge Lue Sang he’d catnapped between 30-40 cats in his neighborhood. Andrew Scott Graham received a light sentence, including 36 months unsupervised probation, a fine, a mental health evaluation and …
First Lost Cat I was just chatting to two people at the apartment complex where I have bought an apartment. One was a nice middle-aged lady. I just bumped into her on the way to the flat. I said, “Hi, I’m Michael. I just bought flat 2”. She said, “have you seen a LaPerm …
