By Sarah Hartwell When cats are bred for appearance, disease-causing genes risk being overlooked until the gene becomes sufficiently widespread that numerous cases of the genetic ailment appear in that breed. There are a number of factors involved: THE FOUNDER EFFECT: if one or more of the foundation cats has a genetic problem, this …
Here are thirteen snippets of information on cat behavior. They are transfers from a blog that I decided to delete. It’s about housekeeping! They were written some time ago and similar topics have since been written about. Unintentionally, the blog had been dormant for quite a while but I did not want to throw …
Being, older, wiser, bigger provides feral cats with an edge in survival. I guess it is the same for humans. Here are some feral cat facts gleaned from a series of scientific studies listed on the first two pages of a Google Scholar search for “feral cat”. Google Scholar lists thousands of scientific studies …
This page is for kids. It is deliberately very easy to read. The main points are in the picture. This is a normal looking cat with flat ears. That is about it except for the health problems. You can read about the health problems here – the page is written for parents, sorry. Note: …
Tuxedo cats are not expected to have blue eyes. They are usually yellow. That is my opinion. I will no doubt be corrected by someone wiser than me. Tuxedo cats are bicolor cats (two colours – black and white). Tuxedo cats are mainly black with white patches to varying degrees on the chin, chest, …
There are at least eight hairless cat breeds that I know of but there are actually more than that. You will hardly see or know about some of them because they are rare. I am listing eight of them here with a picture that shows six of the eight so you know what they …
Most kids know about punishment. I do. I was punished when I was a kid. I was punished when I was naughty. I knew I had been naughty. I also knew that I was being punished because I had been naughty. Sometimes the punishment was hard. I was hit with a cane or a …
This is a page on cats that have a wild cat in their family history. It is written for children and people who like to read plain English and see great pictures of cats.
Kids like wild cat hybrids. It is like having a wild cat as a friend. Wild cat hybrids are like big domestic cats with a wild look. What are they? The word “hybrid” means a cat that has parents that are two different types of cat. For a wild cat hybrid it means the father, grandpa or great-grandpa (and so on) is a wild cat and the mother is a domestic cat or a hybrid cat. Basically, there is a wild cat in the family somewhere and he has had kittens.
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