Although the boundary between acting on instinct and acting on what you’ve been taught is often blurred, with respect to domestic cats, a study by Professor Kuo Zing Yang in the 1920s and the 1930s, published in The Journal of … please continue reading
Yes, a cat would attack a rabbit under the right circumstances and if the individual cat concerned likes to attack rabbits. It looks as if there are a lot of internet surfers (young people, I sense) who look after a … please continue reading
Yes, domestic cats should be fed small meals often. This mimics free-living cats. Free-living cats are opportunistic predators of small prey such as mice. They typically have frequent small meals throughout the day. They spend a large part of the … please continue reading
It is in the DNA of domestic cats to go out at night to hunt, to be inquisitive, to do what evolution has programmed them to do. It is part of their being and their character. Domestic cats are crepuscular … please continue reading
It is very difficult to assess if domestic cat predation of birds makes a difference to population sizes of the various species in the long term. I’ve said it before that some scientists are frankly biased and their studies are … please continue reading
There is a lot of talk and action in Australia about how to control domestic cats; to essentially restrict ownership and the movement of cats. The objective: to reduce the cat’s negative impact on wildlife numbers. Depite a lack of … please continue reading
By Anonymous I blame myself. I’d cleaned out the hamster’s cage and I hadn’t noticed that the catch was not fastened properly. When I saw the cage again about 4 hours later there was no hamster in it. The cage … please continue reading
Domestic cats eat bugs because insects are one of the prey items that they hunt. They are on the agenda, part of a domestic cat’s list of creatures to hunt. Obviously insects are down the list of prey items to … please continue reading
Cats hunt when they have food given to them by us because ‘few of today’s pet cats are more than a small number of generations away from feral cats that have had to live on their own resources, and for … please continue reading
There are two theories why cats bring home live mice or dead mice or birds or someone’s underwear from next door. Desmond Morris asserts that when cats bring home freshly caught prey, often a live mouse, they view their human … please continue reading
