What affects us affects cats
It’s interesting to compare the percentage of homeless cats and dogs against the total population of these animals in various countries. It tells us about the quality of pet caretaking in those countries. And on this page, I also present added information as provided by the State of Pet Homelessness Index for which I …
Katherine M. Rogers in her book “Cat” informs me that the domestic cat’s habit of constantly licking themselves “is repellent to orthodox Hindus, who consider saliva unclean”. Westerners like the fact that domestic cats keep themselves clean. They smell nice, sort of nutty. Westerners like to bury their head into their cat’s fur or …
Yes, is the answer. The Amur tiger a.k.a. the Siberian tiger lives in Russia’s far eastern region. Although they were much more widespread in days gone by, there’s been a bounce back in population numbers thanks to President Putin championing its conservation in approving tougher punishments in 2013 for the poaching, illegal trade, transportation …
I’m looking at two sets of data in this article. The first one that I refer to comes from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. They commenced a TNR program to manage the population of about 69 unowned urban cats on their campus. The programme proved successful. Obviously, this pleases me. …
This is a much-discussed topic but it is also a complicated topic. Only fairly recently have scientists successfully grappled with understanding the science behind the anatomy of the domestic cat’s eye. In my opinion, there are three reasons why cats’ eyes contract to a vertical slit. First reason The first reason is to do …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The image below is from a pilot messaging system which tells us that the passenger in seat 13A was breastfeeding a CAT! And they would not put their cat back in the carrier when requested. A lot of US airlines allow pets in the cabin provided they are in carriers and …
Arguably autism is a false human construct and no-one has it. Call autistic kids something else if you want to label them because they behave differently to most others. If that’s true domestic cats don’t and can’t have it 😕 . You could label autistic kids poor communicators or anti-social instead. Autism certainly does …
Emma Chamberlain currently lives with 2 cats: Declan and Frankie (Nov 2021). It doesn’t surprise me that people want to know how many cats live with Emma Chamberlain because she’s a bit of a star on the Internet. Maybe she’s a big star on the Internet but I’ll let you decide that. The first …
