What have you learnt over the years from your cat and about cat caretaking?

Above: Gabriel moving warily in the garden. It’s true, the older you get the wiser you get and the more you don’t get wound up or bothered about things. You learn to live in the present and you learn to maximise your short life. I agree with Jeremy Clarkson on this when he says …

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Cat photos: one enormous Maine Coon and one strange black-and-white coat

This is another very impressively large Maine Coon cat. I don’t know his name. I don’t know where the photograph was taken either. Perhaps someone can help? What you can see from the photograph is that his face is about the same size as the face of his human guardian (including the fur!), which …

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Police officer puts an injured cat in barbed wire out of his misery with a hammer

Freddy a cat killed by a police officer with a hammer

This is a cat story from the United States, specifically Greater Lewis County in Washington.  Freddy was an outdoor cat.  He was trapped in barbed wire on top of a fence (the barbed wire was illegal, I believe). Freddy’s caretaker was Karen Thorson. We don’t know why a police officer arrived at the scene …

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Are full frame cameras better?

Full frame camera

Full frame cameras are not necessarily better than cameras with a smaller sensor although on a like-for-like basis they are if the camera suits you. For people who aren’t sure, ‘full frame cameras’ are cameras which have a full frame sensor, which is the same size as the negative on 35mm film – the …

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New federal act prohibiting crush videos deemed to be constitutional and effective

This is the rather tortuous saga of attempts to create a law in the USA which prohibits the making of crush videos for distribution and profit.  Anyone and everyone knows instinctively and without question that crush videos are an horrendously perverted example of human behavior which must be stopped. The original law of 1999 …

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