Remembering Pfc Hammer, a tabby cat who improved the lives of soldiers in the Iraq war

Staff Sgt Bousfield and Pfc Hammer

Pfc (Private first class) Hammer was a tabby kitten born at the US military’s base for the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He had two siblings but they ran away never to be seen again while Hammer stayed and became a working cat by keeping the mice population down in the …

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The feral cat is a permanent reminder that humans have broken their contract with the domestic cat

Elephant in the room - our broken promise to the cat

It is the elephant in the room. The elephant has been there for centuries and only a small number of people want to see it and deal with it truthfully. People often address the feral cat problem as a cat problem, a nuisance which originates in cat behaviour but this is fundamentally incorrect. The …

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Traumatic road accident domesticates wild feral cat

Sweet looking feral cat

I was told the vague but interesting story of a genuinely wild feral cat who was involved in a traffic accident. He suffered a bruised spine and broken legs. He was paralysed for a while but remarkably he recovered under the care of a cat loving volunteer to whom he became attached. His personality …

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Utah kitten is home safe after taking a 15 hour ride underneath his owner’s car

cat takes a ride

This is the happy ending story of a Payson, Utah kitten who ran out of the house one morning and ended up taking a road trip that spanned 15 hours while underneath his owner’s car. Milo took a very long ride (screenshot)Jessica Mosher spent the day searching for Milo, even posting to a lost …

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Do snow leopards live in the Arctic?

No, snow leopards do not live in the Arctic. In fact no cat of any species lives in the Arctic. The climate is just too unsuited and so is the terrain. This majestic large wild cat species lives in Central Asia which is thousands of miles south of the Arctic. That said the habitat …

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