A Michael Broad Blog
Why do cats like to torture mice? People sometimes criticise the domestic cat for torturing their prey, usually mice. They do this by pouncing and pausing and when the mouse is disabled through injury and trauma the cat throws it in the air and toys with it until dead. It is unpleasant to see …
We can count of the domestic cat to provide an amusing expression from time to time. There are millions of videos based on this characteristic. Here we have a cute cat who slowly raises himself up meerkat-style to his maximum height to peer at a snake on a box inside what appears to be …
Warning: This is a bit unpleasant but educational. Adults and kids alike should be acquainted with these parasites if they have an outdoor family cat. This is a picture of a warble – a grub that is at the botfly larval stage – being pulled gently out from under the skin of a kitten. Botfly (also …
This is a list of cat breeds in alphabetical order with the date they were created and the place of origin. You will see variations on this information on the internet. This also applies to this site because the origins of cat breeds are not always crystal clear. Desmond Morris’s book Cat World lists …
What does felis catus mean? I’ll try and break this Latin phrase down to its components and provide translations on the way. An alternative to felis catus is felis silvestris catus (the trinomial name). They are both Latin versions of the English ‘domestic cat’. There is some repetition below but I have retained it …
Domestic cat body odour is very pleasant. No one can deny it, even trolls and people who dislike cats. This is because cats are fastidiously clean. Let’s not argue about that. Damn it, there is an army of obsessed cat sniffers in China because their cats smell so nice. If a cat’s body odour …
This is a cute Hello Kitty train. It is very unusual, perhaps unheard of, to conceive of the idea of styling and entire train on a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. It looks as though the only people who’d want to use it are pre-adolescent school girls with pink satchels. It’s …
This is a happy ending rescue story about a Georgetown, Kentucky resident named Mark and how he was miraculously in the right place at the right time to rescue five sick and elderly cats. The June 25 Facebook post on Annie and Mark’s wall read “Mark took a wrong turn on his way to …
