What affects us affects cats
Have you ever been involved in a family feud over the keeping of a domestic cat? It might not be a family feud. It could just be a simmering argument leading to the formation of a grudge. Sometimes people do hold strong opinions about domestic cats. Some people love them while others hate them. …
I’m not sure whether this is sensible or political correctness gone mad, or simply mad, but a journalist on the Washington Post has decided to speak to her cats and refer to them in a gender neutral way to encourage her to do the same thing towards humans. It’s a rather hard concept to …
“She was in a hoarding situation where she was left confined to a dog crate for most of her life. Luckily she has been rescued from that horrible life!” – Furry Nation Salvation. “Meet ‘Love Bug’. It is easy to see how she got her name. She is a 3-5 year-old female cat who …
The domestic cat’s slow blink is well known. There are many webpages about it. The general gist of these pages is that the cat’s slow blink is a sign of love towards their human companion. It is a sign that their cat is content. The domestic cat’s blink has even been described as a …
This is the story of Betty, a sweet 2-year-old kitty rescued along with her sister Veronica from Chester Animal Control when they were less than a month old by Susan Schreck, founder of Saving Southern Kitties. Susan is well known in the Carolina cat community. Her rescues these days come mostly from Greenville County …
This must be the worst case of animosity between neighbours when one of them feeds cats outside and the other dislikes it. This happens quite a lot in America as far as I can tell. There is nothing like feeding stray cats for creating neighbour disputes and anger. It is something which polarises communities …
Wagga Wagga City Council animal shelter is in Australia. Judging by volunteer whistle-blowers, one of whom kept a diary, it is, in my judgement, the worst animal shelter in the world with evidence indicating that there was and probably still is extensive animal cruelty, poor record-keeping, numerous unaccounted dogs and cats by which I …
I was looking for safe and natural home treatments for the notorious cat flea (my cat does not have fleas 🙂 ). I thought about herbs. Herbs after all are plants from the natural world. They aren’t manufactured in the laboratory therefore one would think that they would be less toxic. My initial research …
