What affects us affects cats
by Michael (London, UK) Proactive, bold cat F1 Savannah FOCUS – photo by Michael Broad A lot of people, including so called experts and scientists, don’t think that there is such a thing as cat personality types. A lot of vets until fairly recently didn’t even think cats felt pain so they declawed them …
by Finn Frode (Copenhagen, Denmark) Packing Soon my wife and I will be moving – and so will our two cats. We’ve started packing down the apartment and the cats of course watch with great interest. Problem is they know something is happening, but not what and why – and this clearly makes them …
Introduction: [go straight to behavior during heat] This page applies to domestic cats. Wild cats behave similarly but there are species to species variations. Although the queen goes through four phases in her estrous (estrus) cycle, it is during, ‘heat’ that she is in the estrus period. The other phases are called ‘anestrus’, ‘proestrus’ …
by Michael (London, UK) Sadly the word “cat-house” is slang for a house of prostitution, a brothel. This adds a complication to the work of writing about cat house designs. For instance people search for the “Nevada Cat House”! I thought this might refer to a really nice, architecturally designed detached house in the …
We have all seen a cat eating grass. My lady cat does it all the time and she is invariably sick (on the carpet!) afterwards. This is in common with many cats. It should be noted that only a small amount of grass is eaten. Full-time indoor cats sometimes eat houseplants as a substitute. …
Update: This page was written years ago. It has value but things have moved on a bit since then. Please use the search custom search facility to find other articles on cat emotions. [weaver_search width=300] Discussing cat emotions is very difficult because we simply do not know for sure what emotions cats feel. When …
It is not uncommon to read about a cat falling from a building. Not so long ago there was a story about Nicole Ritchie’s cat that fell ten stories from a balcony and suffered, it seems, no more than broken leg (or less than that). Cat’s do have nine lives. This is a still …
The cat tree is probably the most important piece of cat kit other than the litter box. “Climbing, scratching and jumping are second nature to cats – like breathing” – Dr Jon of PetPlace.com. Of course, he is correct. First time cat adopters should be very aware of this, accept it and accommodate it …
