The Red List should be called “Red Lost”, they are so hopeless. At last, the experts have decided that the so-called ‘authoritative’ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is behind the curve in assessing how endangered iconic species are to extinction. The “Red List” is a vitally important organisation in conservation. It is they …
NEWS AND COMMENT-SUMATRA: The cat’s name was Tayo. The name means “he who brings joy”. A Sumatran man living in Medan, Sumatra was known to eat domestic cats and he was also known to sell cat meat. His name is Rafeles Simanjuntak. Sonia Rizkika lived with Tayo. She adopted him from a rescue center. …
The phrase “pee on things” is very general. It could mean urinating in the usual way, outside of the litter box or it could mean spraying as a “calling card”. The way the title is framed I believe that people want to know why female cats spray urine so I’ll deal with that first. …
Maryam lives in the Gaza Strip as far as I can tell and she is a cat lady. She looks after stray cats and I guess she also rescues them. She might operate TNR as well. She has a Twitter following and on her Twitter page she has tweeted that one of our favourite …
Most cat studies show that small mammals, mainly rodents, rabbits or hares are the dominant prey of domestic cats. That conclusion comes from a study conducted in 1988 by BM Fitzgerald called “The diet of domestic cats and the impact on prey populations as published in The domestic cat: The biology of its behaviour. …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a strange news story coming out of India. There are several articles in Indian online newspapers talking about the Kerala High Court making an order which directs that all six municipal corporations in the state take steps to register/licence pet dogs. The first problem with this story is that …
