What affects us affects cats
The most recent update on San Francisco Fire Station 49 cat Edna tells us even the San Francisco Fire Department Commissioner is fighting to get Edna back to the only home she’s ever known. Edna’s heartbreaking move has been covered in several articles for PoC. Links can be found following this update. She’s definitely …
Experts say one in three cats will go missing. Microchipping will give a missing cat a 2,000 percent higher chance at being returned to the owner. In the case of Abby, it took 13 years for the lost cat to be reunited with her owner. Abby ended up in the care of Augusta Animal …
The question must refer to a multi-cat household in which there are cats of various sizes. The question is: Do the bigger cats bully the smaller cats? That’s my interpretation of the question in round terms. The reference to the Maine Coon breed is not strictly relevant. In all the reading that I have …
Do cats have to be trained to use the litter box, or is it natural for them? In general terms it is natural for them but they may need encouragement and guidance. The answer, it seems to me, depends upon many factors including (a) whether the cat is an indoor/outdoor cat and has historically …
You may know that domestic cats have been and still are used to train doctors to insert intubation tubes into babies. It is part of their paediatric medicine training. I suppose, domestic cats have a similar anatomy to babies in this respect and it is a 20-year-old tradition. According to PETA up to 15 …
I love the cute yet ferocious determination of this little kitten as she goes mountaineering up her owner’s right leg in the kitchen. There is nothing to say except that this is not unusual as we all know to our cost. In fact it is commonplace for young cats and it sort of …
What types of things confuse cats? I am referring to domestic cats. I am sure that you can think of quite a few things that confuse your cat but the following things come to my mind fairly quickly. Domestic cats are confused by doors. If a house does not have a cat flap (cat …
Compared with feral felines, are domestic cats more or less nocturnally active? This is a question asked by a person on Quora.com. It seems to presume that feral cats are nocturnal. I wouldn’t presume that necessarily. Feral cats will behave much like domestic cats and domestic cats are not entirely nocturnal. Much domestic cat …
