What affects us affects cats
How fast can a cat accelerate? I am going to refer to domestic cats because that’s what the questioner is asking about. By now, I would expect most people to know that domestic cats can run at a maximum speed for short bursts of about 30 mph. This is 48 km/h. See the G-force …
Why do some cats love dogs but hate other cats? Essentially, the answer is to do with the territorial nature of the domestic cat inherited as it is from it’s wild ancestor. Despite domestic cats being far more sociable nowadays, after about 10,000 years of domestication, they are still essentially independent minded, solitary and …
I’m referring to domestic cats and why they don’t cry tears as an emotional response. I believe that that is what the question is about. And, sadly, I have to report that we don’t know the answer! We don’t even know for sure why humans cry tears of emotion, either in sadness or joy. …
Elisa has written about the planned attempt to exterminate feral cats on the Dudley Peninsular on Kangaroo Island which my research tells me is in the Australian state of South Australia (link to article). The authorities of that state have set up automatic traps which dispense a poisonous gel onto feral cats. They say …
CBC reports that Lincoln County Humane Society has nothing but empty cages at it shelter on Fourth Avenue in St Catherines. They say that usually the shelter is close to capacity or overcapacity. The executive director Kevin Strooband agreed that it was “a monumental day”. However, he did remind us that a lot of …
The world has learned that Karl Lagerfeld died yesterday aged 85. He died of pancreatic cancer and was taken to hospital in Paris on Monday night and died in the morning. He was unmarried and childless. His partner Jacques de Bascher died in 1989 aged 38. Update, the next day, It is rumoured that …
Plans to forbid cat ownership by forbidding cat ownership in the Southland seaside community of Omaui was covered in this PoC article last week. An ordinance would not only require any cats to be spayed/neutered, but it would also prevent a new cat from coming into the family once a cat died. Residents told the …
The Kangaroo Island Feral Cat Eradication Program has been launched on the Dudley Peninsula. Read on, because this is the cold and calculated killing of feral cats under the management of the Natural Resources Management board in an attempt to eradicate feral cats by 2030. The 18-month program, dubbed Felixer vs Felis, will use ‘grooming …
