What affects us affects cats
This is a cute video from China (we are told it is China). I know China is in the news at the moment in a bad way (coronavirus) but this video is interesting and I have described it as cute. Three dogs and a cat are sleeping together in a what appears to be …
This picture of a cat comes from the Reddit.com website, which is always a good source of the unusual. It is a site which gathers up stories of fringe human behaviour, both good and bad and where some clever people make irrelevant wisecrack comments. The cat is a Turkish Van type cat with an …
To be more precise the question should refer to domestic cats and how they pick a favourite spot in the home for a while and then choose a different one for no apparent reason because, on the face of it, it’s no better or worse. The tendency to do this varies between cats and …
A recent YouGov poll has found that companion animal guardians (a.k.a. pet owners) are almost split down the middle with 51% living with a dog or dogs and 47% cohabiting with a cat or cats. An interesting finding of the poll is perhaps unsurprising when you think about it. We know that wild dogs …
I find this disturbing. It is a report which has surfaced from under the radar. And it looks genuine. I say that because we have to be cautious as there’s a lot of unknowns and some scaremongering during these strange times. You may have read about it yourself. A female cat owner in Liege, …
Clearly this applies to anyone but this is directed at cat owners buying online during the pandemic. I buy cat food from Amazon for instance and during Covid-19 it is almost the defacto norm to buy online. Millions of people are receiving millions of packages from Amazon and other delivery companies. Many cat guardians …
NEWS AND OPINION: The Times newspaper reports (March 27) that Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney has said that there are animal viruses in nature i.e. in wild animal species, which are well adapted to infect humans (zoonotic pathogens). Further, viruses similar to those that cause Covid-19 have been discovered in pangolins seized …
Although there are some positive consequences in respect of animal welfare in our new world under the Covid-19 virus, there is another negative aspect of this viral crisis; it is claimed that feral cat numbers will ‘explode’ because TNR will dry up due to social isolation rules and because veterinary clinics have stopped carrying …
