What affects us affects cats
This is all over Twitter and some people believed it. I use the past tense because I would doubt if anyone believes it now. Was it ever believable? Apparently yes. Even Lord Sugar in the UK asked if it was a joke. He shared the fake news on social media that 500 lions had …
No, cats do not fear death. The reason is straightforward. Cats are not self-aware by which I mean self-conscious. Some people will dispute that statement. I’ll proceed though. As they are not self-aware when they are in pain or discomfort due to a chronic illness which is killing them or a sudden trauma and …
Yes, cats care about closed doors as they get in the way of their day-to-day acitivities without any perceived rhyme or reason. The problem is that cats don’t really understand doors. They are a human invention designed to compartmentalise places. Instinctively domestic cats don’t see the world as compartmentalised. When they are closed, doors …
No, snow leopards don’t live in Antartica. They live thousands of miles from Antarctica as the map below shows you. Think of the high plains of the Plateau of Tibet and the cold mountains of Mongolia. These are the sort of places where they live. These are wide open, vast areas where humans are …
The Quora.com question in full: ‘We are holding onto a cat for a friend who is in jail for a couple of months, we don’t know how long he is in for, will his cat remember who he is when he takes her back?’ My answer in full: YES! I’d better add some more …
I’d say that these pictures together are unique on the internet. Firstly it is very rare to see two pictures of a cat when they are a kitten and at the end of their life. To that you can add the age of this cat: 32 years. This is one of the oldest domestic …
From a medical standpoint this is a story about domestic cat head shaking. It is instructional. It is also a story about the brilliant work carried out by this famous animal rescue centre. A lot of people ask, ‘Why is my cat shaking her head?’ It is a common health problem. This is a …
You can’t ask if Ragdoll cats are destructive as it is unwise to generalise too much particularly as this character trait is unusual. The question presupposes that all the cats of a single cat breed have exactly the same character trait; in this instance destructiveness. That’s not right. You can ask if an individual …
