What affects us affects cats
This article is about the personality of the Chartreux cat. The reason why I am writing this is because Gloria visited the Chartreux Owner page and agreed with the author that the Chartreux has a particularly good personality (“They are simply the best”). I thought I would check that out. A brief background first …
A study found that mice which were made to fear a certain smell could pass that particular fear to their offspring in their DNA and their offspring could do likewise¹. This is about animals and humans being hardwired to fear something without ever having experienced that fear or its cause before. It is all …
By Dave Payne I adopted Miles Davis, Cool Cat, when he was 6 weeks old (he’s now 8). It’s funny because when I originally adopted him, I asked the lady if he was a short-hair cat because I didn’t really want a huge, furry cat. She said yes, but as the years went by, …
This is a cat from the Van region of Turkey. I don’t know his/her gender so I’ll refer to the cat as she. She is all white with odd-eye colour which is not unusual. She has been described as a Turkish Van but I don’t think we can say that just because she comes …
This is rare. Singapura cats are rare. A cat calling the police is rare. The latter is even rarer than the former. It may be unique. The Singapura is the world’s smallest non-miniature cat and it is a pedigree, “purebred” cat. It is meant to have come from the drains of Singapore but Sarah …
From Marion Campbell… I own 2 cats, 1 female and 1 male (from the same litter). They are 3 yrs old and have got on well, now when the female cat comes near me the male gets on top of her and starts biting her around the back of neck and then wrestle to …
This a nice feel good cat photo. It is time for a bit of “feel good”. Sarah Hartwell recommended it! It is not uncommon for interspecies mothering to take place: dogs raising leopards (see also dog saves kittens), cats raising rabbits, cats raising dogs and in this instance a cat nursing a squirrel. As …
If 100% of the domestic cats in North America were spayed and neutered at all times, within a generation there would be no domestic cats on the continent. They’d only be feral and stray cats. I think that is an interesting thought (note: in practice there would be pedigree cats left as breeders are …
