You may remember reports from Cyprus a little while ago about 300,000 cats on that island being killed by a new strain of feline coronavirus called FCoV-23. The numbers were …
Senior scientist calls for an import ban to stop cat coronavirus in the UK Read More »
The Science Daily website has an article which infers that elderly people who have unknowingly been infected with the Toxoplasma gondii protozoan tend to be frailer in old age than …
Does an asymptomatic toxoplasmosis infection cause elderly people to become frailer? Read More »
A domestic cat’s personality influences how keen they are to go hunting and it will also affect how effective they are and therefore how many prey animals they kill and/or …
Domestic cat personality influences opportunity, desire and effectiveness of predation Read More »
Anyone who writes about cats has an obligation to remind readers that the world population of the cheetah has declined catastrophically since the 1900s when there were an estimated 100,000 …
World cheetah population is about 6% of what it was in 1900 Read More »
A recent study has once again looked at the concerning situation regarding the extinction of the Scottish wildcat which is actually a European wildcat living in Scotland. About 15 years …
Criminals should take note of this research. The advice is that criminals should not live with a cat because DNA testing on cat hairs might lead to a cat owning …
Criminals shouldn’t live with a cat or dog as their hairs might link them to a crime Read More »
Well, this is a bit of a shocker: Nathan Winograd says this about the animal shelter ‘industry’ in the US in commenting about an animal control officer who stole a …
US animal shelter ‘industry’ accused of endemic uncaring attitude and corruption Read More »
The unfortunate and unpleasant phrase used in government and business ‘dead cat strategy’ needs to be discarded and never used again. Currently, in the UK, there is an enquiry into …
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