A Michael Broad Blog
This is a cat portrait on Flickr that I bumped into while surfing the internet. I was struck, as I am sure you will be, with these amazing eyes. They protrude a little too far to be normal which makes me question the photograph’s authenticity. If it is photo-editing it is bloody good photo-editing. …
This is a photograph of a cat which is the result of a mating between a serval and a caracal. They are called Caravals, as I understand it. This is a young cat but the coat is very distinctly different to both the caracal and the serval and as expected it is somewhere in …
This is a stupendous F1 Savannah kitten with a gorgeous spotted coat. All Savannah cats have spotted coats, inherited from the serval but this is a high contrast example in gray which looks amazing. The kitten’s expression is sweet and his body is plump and patently in excellent health. The video also indicates that …
Sometimes domestic cats pester their owners for food. They then become picky and don’t eat it. The request for food can be quite distinct as can the rejection of it when it is served up. The reason for this must be because of a conditioned response. It is the pairing of a situation or …
Joplin, Missouri, USA: This is clearly an educated person. Initially I thought that it was hard to tell if the person was man or woman but it appears to be established that this is a woman (in her 60s?). The online newspapers say that it’s a woman who was walking around the area with …
Yes, it is said that cats hear three times more than we do because they can hear sound with frequencies which are three times higher than humans. Cats can hear frequencies from 40Hz to 85,000 Hz (Dr Morris says it is up to an astonishing 100,000 Hz). Humans in their prime can hear sounds …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Shirley Gear-Evans, 65, a widow of Adber, near Sherborne in Dorset, UK, said that she can’t have another cat because her neighbour admittedly drowned her cat, Ruby, in a water butt. Her neighbour is Richard Giles, 69, a gardener. He claimed that Shirley’s cat kept on digging up his vegetables. Mr …
In this article I explain why cats are not being weird in this video compilation. This is a video on YouTube called “Cats Being Weird-Compilation”. It’s always intrigued me how people regard natural, instinctive cat behaviour as weird because there is always a reason behind it and it is a good reason from the …
