What affects us affects cats
Yes, domestic cats are related to tigers. They are also related to all the other wild cat species including lions and leopards et cetera. These days genetic material from the various wild cat species can be analysed using a range of molecular tests to figure out how closely related species are to one another. …
By Anonymous I blame myself. I’d cleaned out the hamster’s cage and I hadn’t noticed that the catch was not fastened properly. When I saw the cage again about 4 hours later there was no hamster in it. The cage was on its side and bits had fallen out of it. My cat is …
Joe Fonseca spent 20 years feeding the feral cats who gathered in the parking lot outside of his office. But when Joe decided to retire, things quickly went downhill: until he came up with a plan. Now his cats are safe and loved, and Joe is giving back to the rescue who made it …
On reddit.com a person who calls himself ‘Prankishbear’ asked “Is it normal to have the urge to hurt my cat?” He says that he likes his cat. There are quite a lot of people on the internet asking a question similar to this one. Another man on Yahoo asks, “Why do i have these …
This super, plump classic tabby cat wandered into the pet store and homed in on the catnip shelf were he enjoyed himself to the amusement of spectators, one of whom videoed him. Pages on catnip on PoC
The guiding principle of cat ownership is to allow your cat to perform as much of his natural behaviour as possible. This guideline applies to vertebrate animals in general. It applies to the owners as well 😉 . Reference to this guideline can be made when making decisions about cat welfare. This guideline underpins …
PETA claims that misguided no-kill animal shelter policies contribute, indirectly and directly, to animal cruelty. How is that? The argument is that when shelters have policies and rules which makes it harder for cat owners to surrender their cat then they encourage these owners to abandon their companion animal or give them away which …
Visitors to the Internet do ask whether Abyssinian cats are friendly. The question implies that all the cats of one breed can be friendly as if it is automatically inherited into all Abyssinian cats as part of their DNA. I don’t think this is a good concept. Firstly, cat breeders, although they do their …
