What affects us affects cats
NEWS/OPINION-TURKEY: The story is that a street cat, a calico cat in fact, carried her sick kitten into an Istanbul hospital for treatment. It was a demonstration of incredible motherly instincts, on the face of it. The cat dropped her kitten in front of medics in one of the treatment rooms, we are told. …
You may have heard of cute Lulu. She is a tabby rescue cat who likes to bring her owner’s slippers to her every morning. She collects them from wherever they have been left the day before. Lulu’s owner managed to catch the behaviour on video and it looks awfully cute. The Dodo say that …
The question is a search term on Google i.e. not my wording, and is two questions rolled into one which I have reformulated: Which domestic cat has given birth to the largest litter of kittens? Which domestic cat was the most prolific in terms of giving birth to kittens? Both are listed in Guinness …
A cute video (partly speeded up) of a beautiful and slightly overweight grey, classic tabby cat protecing their toddler friend and companion. The cat seems to intervene, for example, to stop the toddler falling off a bedside chest of drawers. There is definitely something going on. Perhaps the cat is a female and her …
Young kittens of domestic cats become capable of taking adult food at about 30 to 32 days after birth. Their mother may continue suckling but she becomes gradually less amenable which usually leads to a completely weaned young cat at about the age of 2-months-of-age (wild cats take longer and are weaned at about …
During the first three weeks of kittens’ lives their mother licks them extensively. The first and obvious reason is because it keeps their coat in good condition. Secondly, it also removes ectoparasites (parasites living on the outside the host’s body) such as fleas from the coat. There is a real risk of fleas being …
Nothing much to say here except that it looks like this cute kitten is copying her mother’s yawn and if so why? Rather than following her mother’s behaviour it may be that she has been encouraged to yawn when watching her mother. Yawns are contagious as humans know. I prefer the first assessment. I …
The videos is called ‘Caring is sharing’ – very apt. This cat has firmly decided that the plush toy is a real creature. It must be imprinting. The cat treats the toy as her kitten. It seems that the plush toy was placed with the cat while she was nursing kittens and developed a …
