What affects us affects cats
There are 600 people in a queue that snakes around the corner of a street in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals. They are all waiting in line for that magical moment when they get to hold, be close to and, yes OMG, to be photographed with Grumpy Cat. …
This is a bit different. I have compared the texture and pattern of a cat coat with the texture and pattern of the fabric on furniture. There is no reason for doing it, except, to me, it makes a nice photograph. The featured cat is a first filial (F1) Savannah cat called Focus and …
I went on an internet quest for sounds that cats hate and came up with very little. This does not surprise me as I don’t believe that there is a comprehensive list of sounds that cats, in general, hate. However, I know what sounds my cats have disliked. I also refer to the sounds …
The humble, yet extremely useful, cardboard box proves that the essence of the cat resides in all cats; wild to domestic. They like to sit inside them. It makes them feel comfortable. That has to be reason for the domestic cats attraction to the cardboard box. Often, small boxes are preferred; boxes that the …
Some cats don’t climb down trees because they don’t want to. Some may be anxious about climbing down. It is possible that a few are not sure about doing it. I’ll discuss the last reason, first. The Cat Has Not Learned To Do It The idea that cats who get stuck up trees don’t …
All cats should be treated equally, including cats that suffer from congenital anomalies (disorders or deformities). If a pedigree cat has a congenital facial deformity that makes him or her ugly she is probably killed at birth, or chucked out, if she is a moggie. If a cat is deformed and, by chance, the …
Don’t do DIY declawing. Don’t even begin to dream about it. Declawing is bad enough when carried out by a vet. Even they screw up, which compounds the immorality of such an unjustifiable process. However, it appears that one idiot, Eric Felipe Gaskin, living in the District of Columbia was so driven to declaw his …
We don’t often discuss the topic of declawing cats in Canada. The operation of declawing a cat is widely known to be an American concept. Yet, there is a lot of it in Canada, too. I wonder if Canada got the idea from America? Let’s give Camille Cox a big pat on the back. …
