What affects us affects cats
This change in the law is very welcome and necessary. The ban covers the private ownership of exotic animals and potentially dangerous animals. Quite frankly it is about time. I am tired of seeing wealthy Arabs in expensive cars cruising down the high street with a cheetah or other large but ‘tamed’ wild cat …
A woman crawls into a small, wet, dirty drain opening in the gutter of a road and rescues a kitten who had fallen into the drainage system or she had been put there, we don’t know. How did a kitten get into a road drain? These are the actions of a gutsy woman. And …
A new study concluded that there are 1.92 million feral cats in Australia or 1 per 4 square kilometres. Some Australian experts and doom-mongers had estimated 20 million. They were wrong. The researchers analysed 100 studies to come to their conclusion. There are two interesting observations. There are an estimated 50 million feral cats …
This cute video proves that cats cannot see themselves in a mirror. They see another cat. Does this mean that cats are unable to be self aware? This cute Siamese type cat (probably a Balinese) has great fun looking at his reflection in the large mirror but he is not seeing himself in my …
A lynx point Siamese cat has tabby markings within the usually pointing. The extremities of a Siamese cat are darker than the other areas. This is called ‘pointing’. The pointing colour varies and is nearly always a solid colour such as ‘seal’ (very dark brown) or ‘blue’ (a light bluish-grey). But with the lynx …
Cat owners no longer need to concern themselves about buying low magnesium cat food. The idea behind low magnesium cat food came about because at one time pet food manufacturers believed that magnesium in the “ash” of cat food was causing the formation of struvite crystals in a cat’s urine; a urinary tract health …
There are some really nice photos of Marlon Brando and a white cat. In one picture there is a dark coloured cat. It looks like he was the cat’s guardian although it would seem unlikely that his lifestyle was suited to cat ownership. The photos were taken at his home in the 1950s I …
It seems fair to suggest that tigers use facial markings to recognize each other combined with their body scent (odor). In other words, they use appearance and smell to identify neighbors and relatives. This is how humans recognise each other and, in fact, humans use the tiger’s coat pattern to recognise individual tigers. Tiger …
