A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS AND OPINION – INTERNET SOCIAL MEDIA: TikTok is a very fast growing online social media business having acquired over 1 billion monthly users in 3 years. It is owned by a Chinese business: ByteDance. It seems to me that its target is young people who want to make short, comedic videos with the …
The term ‘dilute’ refers to the weakening of the colours of a cat’s coat as if watered down. The colours are paler. Cat breeders can deliberately create this colour by selective breeding of pedigree cats. When the cat coat’s color is diluted it is due to the presence of two mutant recessive d alleles …
This cat photograph reminds me of a rugger scrum of press paparazzi surrounding a human starlet of the 1960s. The difference is that the 35mm film cameras have been replaced by smartphones and the celebrity is a domestic cat. I believe the cat is a Norwegian Forest Cat. Paparazzi are independent photographers who take …
No, the Bombay Cat is not hypoallergenic because no cat breed is despite what you might read on the Internet. There is nothing to suggest that the Bombay Cat is hypoallergenic. If it were it would mean that breeders had successfully eliminated or reduced the presence of the allergen in the Bombay cat’s saliva …
It is everywhere. Despite the many inspiring cat stories that emerge from the internet daily, if there is one topic which tends to dominate the news media with respect to cats and kittens it is cruelty perpetrated against these vulnerable companion animals. Today, as for all days, I did a quick search using Bing …
