What affects us affects cats
The execution nearly always takes place under my bed in the dead of the night. Until that moment I can hear the screams of a mouse at a distance as he vainly tries to fight off and escape my cat’s attentions. When he brings mice into the house my cat makes a special noise. …
Nature programmed the cat to hold onto prey tightly. This is amply demonstrated in this cute little video. Have you seen a kitten so determined to not let go of prey? We have to believe that this kitten believes that this toy is prey. All cat toys are prey and they retain interest in …
With rats infesting the Buckingham Palace kitchens it is time for the Queens to adopt three capable cats from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to deter them and not to put down poisons.
You’ll see this quite often. If a domestic cat takes her food out of her food bowl and takes it somewhere else, even a short distance, it is the behaviour of an inherited, wild cat trait to take food to a safe place to protect it. And if she talks while eating it could …
It’s four in the morning and I have just saved a mouse from a certain but slow death at the hands of my cat’s hunting skills. The mouse was hiding between two walking boots. I could hear the squeaks. This was an easy mouse rescue. I took the mouse outside and released him. My …
Let’s think of a brave new world, a considerable time in the future, when people have control over the creation of random bred cats (moggies) and when they might be bred by licensed breeders who focus exclusively on their cats’ character and primarily a total disinterest in hunting. Under these circumstances, perhaps 200 years …
For a while, experts were baffled by these mysterious, wriggling critters which you can see in this woman’s hand. The video has gone viral and there’s lots of speculation about what we are looking at. The current theory is that a family cat (or perhaps a feral cat?) ate a moth except for the …
Compared with feral felines, are domestic cats more or less nocturnally active? This is a question asked by a person on Quora.com. It seems to presume that feral cats are nocturnal. I wouldn’t presume that necessarily. Feral cats will behave much like domestic cats and domestic cats are not entirely nocturnal. Much domestic cat …
