What affects us affects cats
The most likely reason why a cat leaves an apparently good home is because she could not establish an area or territory where she could feel at ease because there were challenges from other cats. Domestic cats still need to have a home range of some sort. When a cat leaves an owner’s home …
People ask about britches on a cat. The use of language concerned with Western clothes and applying it to the appearance of cats is quite common amongst cat breeders. Personally, I don’t like it. The ‘ruff’ is another term. I think the word ‘britches’ when applied to a cat is actually slightly misleading. The …
In 2010 a UK betting business, Paddy Power, made a distasteful television advert which shows blindfolded footballers playing football. One of them viciously kicks a black-and-white who had wandered onto the playing field. The cat ends up in a tree. It’s done very flippantly and as joke. However, in light of the well-known criminal …
A neighbor’s dog falls in love with the cat next door. He sits at the railings… Dear Neighbor – This is going to seem ridiculous, but I thought you should know that my dog (who loves next door at….with me) is madly in love with your cat….and has been for probably 6 months! …
Can you trust your neighbour to look after your cat when you are away? This story will tell you that you cannot. That does not mean that you have to totally write off the idea of your neighbour taking up cat caretaking duties while you are away but it might put you off. A …
Today, Booker is a happy cat. It even took some medication (I guess tranquillisers) to make him happy which is sad. But the overriding ‘treatment’ was, and still is, tons of love and gentle care from a really good woman, Julia. This cat story is really about rehabilitation and the two extremes of cat …
Scott Dye who loves cats has paid the adoption fees for five other people adopting from the Second Chance Companions rescue center in SW Washington and the Portland Metro area and the fees were for difficult to rehome cats such as elderly black cats or cats with disabilities. He got the idea from stories …
Cooperative hunting by bobcats seems to be rare. A courting pair of bobcats were tracked hunting together. They were tracked through snow. They visited several spruce plantations where there were snowshoe hares. In each place: “the cats moved through the plantation about 10 to 15 meters apart and appeared to alternate stopping as the …
