What affects us affects cats
The rabies vaccine is obligatory in most US states as I understand it and this vaccine can be bracketed into two types, namely a non-adjuvanted vaccine and a vaccine which contains an adjuvant. The difference can be quite important to the point where it is worth asking your veterinarian, or the vaccine clinic, if …
A seven-year-old girls birthday party turned from being a happy celebration to one of loss when her pet cat disappeared in the back of a bouncy castle van following her party on September 9. Thanks to a microchip, the little girl recently got her cat back and her mom videoed the heartwarming reunion. Alice …
The Albany, Oregon Fire Department answered the call for a feline in distress Wednesday afternoon. It was, as the department called it on Twitter, the “classic cat in the tree rescue.” Krista Sheldon is one of their newest firefighters and was the one to climb the ladder to rescue the kitty and reunite it …
Do cats pick up on human emotions? Yes, certainly if it is the cat’s guardian (owner) who is interacting with the cat. This is because domestic cats learn, in their interactions with their owners, their body language including specifically their facial expressions. Of course human facial expressions and general body language are an outward …
This video is not hugely significant in the grand scheme of domestic cat life on the planet but it is interesting to see a blind domestic cat using his nose to track down food. He scans from left to right as if he is a blind person using a blind person’s white cane. Blind …
This is a nice little video of a domestic cat chasing a laser pointer light on a white wall. Laser pointers ‘activate’ (if that is the right word) domestic cats. They activate the hunt/chase instinct. In Jackson Galaxy cat language they are engine cranks to get the domestic cat’s hunting mechanism started. He’s referring …
This is a story about an ugly stray cat who taught a woman how to be beautiful, to love and be compassionate. Residents had named the cat Ugly. Everyone in the apartment complex knew him because he was the resident tomcat. As he had spent his life outside it showed in his appearance. He …
Feral cat lover Heather Patterson runs For the Love of Ferals, a small organization who along with another group, Forgotten Ferals. Together they work hard to help cats in the Kingston, Ontario area. Right now Heather is worried because, despite the availability of city funding set aside for TNVR, there may not be enough …
