What affects us affects cats
Mass and rapid evacuations by residents caught up in the massive, raging California fires resulted in companion animals being left behind. The residents fled without their pets. It reminds me of the floods. It must have been rapid and terrifying. These are thumbnails. Please click on them for larger images. In some ways the …
NO. I’ll keep this short and hopefully sweet. Leopards are a different species of wild cat to jaguars. They are not the same although they look very similar. The jaguar is larger than the leopard and lives in Mexico, Central and South America (a few in the US perhaps) while the leopard has the …
The answer will be a personal one because we can’t rely on science. I believe cats don’t understand death. They don’t fear death and are impervious to its ramifications. This is a question asked through Google search. Unsurprisingly Google fails to provide an answer and instead lists articles on cats grieving. This is not …
This is an interesting question. Cat owners will have to rely on their own experiences and their knowledge of cat behaviour to answer it because you won’t find the answer in books. The answer is in human body language and how cat’s observe it. Cats do understand the tone of our voice, its general …
An Italian animal advocacy group recently helped an Italian librarian win the right from her employer to use two of her sick days to stay home to care for her 12-year-old dog. The librarian had no family or outside help to care for her dog Cucciola, who was found abandoned in a park in …
Personally, I have never seen any indication from my cats that they like music but perhaps this is because I play human music (rarely). I’ll admit to being sceptical. I don’t believe cats do like music despite the plethora of cat music products available. I’ve never bought cat music because I don’t believe in …
By Kathy Note: the drug concerned, Buprenorphine, is an extra label drug for use by vets on dogs and cats, therefore this post is relevant to cat caretakers. Extra label drugs can only be used by vets on animals if there is not an alternative drug that is labeled for that species. The client …
Because at the end of the day they are domesticated North African wildcats and these wild cats primarily live of small mammals such as rodents including mice. The domestic cat has inherited that trait from the wild cat even though first domestication took place around 9,500 years ago. It is as simple as that.
