Infographic on “I have an elderly female cat and want a kitten. What should I do?”

Compatible cats?

The infographic answers the question in the title and a subsidiary question on whether an older female cat might like to mother a new kitten introduced into the home. The source for the infographic is myself and Jackson Galaxy. The question comes from Quora.com and is the kind of question sometimes asked by caregivers. …

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Great-grandchildren of mums stressed before giving birth are also stressed

A mother stressed before giving birth passes that anxiety down the generations

This is a Royal Society Open Science study which should interest everyone including breeders of cats. I have to get cats into the article! But seriously it is information which should concern cat and dog breeders as well as humans. It is important I feel. In my opinion, the finding of the research is …

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Fighting cats are a danger to themselves and others. Example.

Fighting cats are a danger to themselves and others

When domestic, stray or feral cats – usually males – fight over territory there is blind fury. The fighting can be horrendously aggressive and they often fight with complete abandonment of concern for personal injury to themselves which means they can fall off roofs for example. Fights can take place on flat roofs because …

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Try feeding your cat outside to encourage eating (infographic)

Gabs eating outside

For cat caregivers who allow their cat to go outside unsupervised – which still happens in the West despite a trend for keeping cats indoors – I have found that placing a bowl of wet food outside encourages reluctant feline feeders to eat because they feel that they have discovered a deceased prey animal …

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Cats are aloof? They grieve for their friends. Infographic.

Cats are aloof? They grieve for their friends.

I have compressed the results of a research project by Prof. Jennifer Vonk and Brittany Greene entitled: Is companion animal loss cat-astrophic? Responses of domestic cats to the loss of another companion animal, into an infographic in order try and get Google to recognise its existence as Google’s catastrophic algorithm changes four months ago …

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