An alternative version of the question is, “Why does my cat bite me when I get out of the shower?” The same reason is behind both aspects of feline behaviour. For me, it is all to do with scent. The scent or body odour of the person asking the questions. When a cat guardian …
The question is specific, do cats feel time passing? Do they reflect on it? We have to start with whether they have a sense of time. Domestic cat’s sense of time Do cats have a sense of time like humans? I will make a bold statement and argue that they do and that the …
As a cat guardian you can’t underestimate the importance of scent (aka body odour) to the domestic cat. It seems that their world revolves around smell. It is at least the equal of sight to our cats. Cats use scent as a tool to confirm the identity of humans i.e. whether they know the …
Mochi is the cat in the video. He has just experienced the feeling of a minor earthquake were are told in the Twitter feed. He looks frozen to the spot. His owner certainly thinks that he is scared and frozen. I’ll have to try and comment. Yes, I agree he felt the earthquake and …
Meghan Markle is 38 weeks pregnant at the date of this short post. That comes from a pregnancy expert on the parents.com website. There is a well-known domestic cat whose name is Phoenix who is able to make predictions! Phoenix predicted that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s baby will be a girl. The …
Do cats pick up on human emotions? Yes, certainly if it is the cat’s guardian (owner) who is interacting with the cat. This is because domestic cats learn, in their interactions with their owners, their body language including specifically their facial expressions. Of course human facial expressions and general body language are an outward …
This video is not hugely significant in the grand scheme of domestic cat life on the planet but it is interesting to see a blind domestic cat using his nose to track down food. He scans from left to right as if he is a blind person using a blind person’s white cane. Blind …
This cat looks really cool beating the ball in cup trick every time. There is only one way he achieves this. It’s a combination of training and the domestic cats super hearing. You’ll see the owner bounce the ball before he does the trick. This makes a sound. It keys the cat’s sense of …
