What affects us affects cats
This is a happy update on the two kittens rescued from a bamboo field in Pickens County, South Carolina. The story of their Christmas Eve rescue was posted on PoC December 26. Although these two aren’t quite ready for their forever home at this time, I do have good news to share. Please read …
People ask if cats can get lost in snow or the dark or in the rain or woods. They hardly ever get lost under these conditions but they can get lost in storms. I guess it has to be a strong storm though. The storms we have in the UK are never strong enough …
This is a very strange and frankly shocking photo of a grey and white domestic cat stuck in an up-and-over garage door as if he has been crushed and is lifeless. Only he was not killed but escaped with bruising. Up-and-over garage doors can be dangerous to cats it appears. A cat sits on …
In a sense the domestic cat does get a winter coat because he/she sheds fur in the late spring because there is more light and in the fall (autumn) as the days grow shorter, the coat thickens up for winter. This cycle applies much more to cats who spend time outdoors. The greater the …
The deceased’s executors made a mistake. They forgot about the deceased’s cat. This should be a reminder that the executor1 of a Will should read it carefully and if provision for the deceased’s cat is not mentioned in the Will they should at least check the home of the deceased and look for his/her …
This is a very rare example of a cat stuck up a tree who dies after six days and is then taken away by a vulture. That is what the people who were involved in the rescue believe happened. All the rescues sadly failed. It is said that this was a young cat. All …
Here are some great camera trap photographs of the snow leopard. This is God’s country, in the high plains and mountains of Mongolia, Pakistan and China where this magnificent wild cat lives silently, unassumingly and beautifully in harmony with this cold, forbidding landscape. You get a real sense of what it is like up …
The American polydactyl cat is an American cat with more than the usual number of toes. It is not a cat breed (in my view) although it is spoken of as such in the articles that I have read on the Internet. The problem with the phrase or name “American Polydactyl” is that it …
