What affects us affects cats
People ask, ‘why do animals in the circus get abused?’ – so I’m going to try and answer the question in this post. I accept that we all have our own points of view. The first point to make is that not all animals in circuses get abused. However, you can successfully argue that …
The answer is both Yes and No. Yes, when a Manx cat has no tail or a short tail this is how he/she was born and there is no change throughout the cat’s life. No, because not all Manx cats are born without a tail. Such is the variety of tail length that breeders …
I feel that America is chipping away at declawing. It is happening bit by bit. It is a slow process. It’s bound to be slow because it took years for this objectionable operation to become part of the culture of America. But it fits in very uncomfortably in American society as a very substantial …
Petition signatures are needed to seek the maximum sentence for the animal-abusing North Carolina couple who abandoned 16 cats in November, 2016. This PoC article will bring you up to date as to what happened to the cats, and this article tells of the arrest of Terry Beasley and Tamara Perezlazaro. The petition will …
There is a video. Los Angeles authorities are searching for a woman caught on camera dragging a cat by a ‘lead’ (a cord) along the sidewalk. What do you think? She must be suffering from mental health problems. The cat was taken from her and rescued eventually but she tasered a woman who intervened! …
No, Siamese cats are not less allergenic or hypoallergenic. Siamese cats are like any other domestic cat. They produce the allergen in their saliva which is deposited on their fur and which results in dander flying around the room containing the Fel D1 allergen which makes allergic people react in various ways from itchiness …
This concerns a study on cats carried out by Japanese scientists on ‘incidental memory’. Incidental memory concerns the sort of information that is not deliberately stored in the brain; there is no deliberate attempt to memorise information. In brief, an event occurs and the memory is created and later automatically retrieved when perhaps making …
The first breeder of the well publicised Werewolf cat (Lykoi breed) negligently let the foundation male Lykoi cat die of hypothermia while in her care. This is only one aspect of the unseemly story of the origins of this intriguing new breed of purebred cat. Sarah Hartwell of Messybeast.com has gathered together information on …
