What affects us affects cats
We know about feline facial pheromones which are facial secretions. The chemical components of these pheromones have been analysed. They are almost entirely made up of ‘acids’ interestingly. There are five facial pheromones. Chemical components of the feline facial secretions: F1 – Oleic acid, caproic acid, trimethylamine, 5-aminovaleric acid, n-butyric acid, a-methylbutyric acid F2 …
A $500 reward is being offered for information leading to the asshole who shot a cat with an arrow in Montcalm County, Michigan. Wayland the cat was left to die of his injury and was rescued earlier this week. Wayland is currently in the care of the Humane Society of Mid Michigan located in …
Fljótsdalshérað is a municipality located in eastern Iceland. It is the largest municipality in the country by area. The biggest town in the municipality is Egilsstaðir, with a population of 2,300. They’ve recently made the news (and not in a good way) when the decision was made to set traps and kill wild (feral) …
A cat frozen to a highway guardrail is recovering this weekend, thanks to an upstate New York woman who acted quickly about a Facebook post. Joyanna Lathrop came across a plea for help after someone spotted a ginger cat they thought to be sleeping and rushed to the scene near the I-81/690 interchange. Joyanna …
The Holy Grail of playing with your cat is to achieve the situation in which your cat growls when she catches the ‘prey’ (a cat tease) telling you that her ‘raw cat’ has been activated. What Jackson Galaxy advocates is to mimic as accurately as possible how prey would react in the presence of …
I was going to chose the title: ‘Cat rats on his best mate” but it may have caused confusion because cats are meant to hunt rats. This is a bit of what people in the entertainment business call ‘light ent’ – light entertainment. Nothing serious and mildly amusing. The question is how was the …
Do cats know when they are doing something wrong? I am referring to domestic cats. This is a philosophical question and as I am not a philosopher I’ll employ common sense as I see it. The first point to make is that the question refers to “doing something wrong”. This in fact means that …
This is the height of human barbarity against a zoo animal. It’s about as low as humankind can get in their relationship with animals when they hack off the claws of a young lioness at a Palestinian zoo (Rafa Zoo, Gaza). The reason? So visitors can play with the lion without being scratched. It …
