What affects us affects cats
I’m going to be politically correct. I’m going to write about animals generally which I think I’m allowed to do on a cat website. You may be watching the Olympics. You may like horses. I don’t particularly like horses but I was very impressed with Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin riding her horse Valegro. This is …
Dr Ben Allen, a wildlife researcher and an expert on dingoes, living in Australia has provoked uproar by urging Australia to consider exporting its wild dogs as meat to Asian countries including China to feed their diners! When are Australia going to get their act together? What are they going to start behaving in …
You’ll see this kitten rescue in the video. I believe that it’s a fake. I think the lady wanted to make a bit of money so she decided to make a kitten rescue video which she could sell to the local news media. Perhaps I am being very cynical but to me it looks …
Carson Springs Wildlife Conservation Foundation have some Geoffroy’s cats at their sanctuary. They’re based in Florida. They are a not-for-profit organisation. They are dependent upon donations. They are described by Big Cat Rescue as a “pseudo-sanctuary” which in their view exploits exotic cats by taking them off site to be handled by the public. …
Sometimes, female cats eat one or more of their offspring if they are sick or carry a genetic defect. Eva made this comment recently and it got me thinking: A cat gave birth near the woods of my house. I began talking with her and gave her food and told her she could bring …
Male lions and male domestic cats share one behaviour that is rare amongst the family of cats. In both species of cat, several males may take turns mating with a female in heat. You would have thought that the males would start fighting over the female but fights are apparently quite rare. An older …
A group of firefighters have once again come to the rescue of a helpless kitten. This is a story with a happy ending that brings to mind “it takes a village” as to how the kitten was finally saved. It happened when a call came in to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue in …
We now know, thanks largely to the Internet, that when the domestic cat falls she always lands on her feet. We also know that cats have a self righting mechanism which operates very quickly. And thirdly, we also know that when a cat falls a considerable distance he extends his limbs outward, assuming the …
