What affects us affects cats
What do you think? I’ll be kind and say this is not as bad as the title portrays and I don’t won’t to be a grumpy old man today if I can help it so I’ll just say this animated gif shows a slightly (very?) disrespectful attitude towards a cat. However, this cat appears …
Would you buy this product? I am not pocking this product! “Pocking” means criticising products and people on PoC. There are many cat products on Amazon. It is possible – if care and skepticism are exercised – to get some good insights into cat behavior, and more importantly human behavior in relation to cats, …
Here is a picture of a cat that looks sad. Is (s)he sad? Are we interpreting a cat’s expressions correctly? The face is actually more “concerned-and-sad” than plain sad. I’ll tell you why I think we are encouraged to make that interpretation from looking at this kitten’s cute face. I am not saying this …
The genes that a kitten inherits from his father determines how friendly the kitten becomes1. So, I am told. I set about checking if there was agreement amongst experts on this. The mother’s genes also have an affect on the kitten’s personality but the effect is not as strong. This seems strange. But is …
I like this. It is fun and I am sure it is useful in placing rescue cats with suitable new homes. ASPCA runs a “Meet Your Match program”, which entails placing rescued cats at shelters into categories based on their personality – “feline-ality”. This helps matching cat to person and home. It is an …
This is an extract from an email I received from a PoC visitor: My new cat is hiding from me. Since I brought her home a few days ago she has hidden under my sofa almost all the time. I have to feed her by putting really nice food down beside the sofa. She …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Why doesn’t my cat Coral meow? I ask myself that question every night as Coral jumps into my lap for some quality petting time. I’d like to tell her story, and then I hope some of you may have some answers for my non-vocal cat. Coral has been with us for …
If you let your cat go outside through a cat flap at his pleasure, you are allowing yourself to enter a world of shared cat ownership. It is a cat-human relationship that is somewhere between Morocco and the United States of America and it does present an added aspect to our responsibilities towards our …
