What affects us affects cats
Wear ear plugs…Can a cat’s voice be too loud for their human caretaker, even when the caretaker is a good one? A person who shouldn’t really keep a cat might find a lot of things about a cat that are unacceptable. But when a a good cat caretaker becomes a bit desperate about their …
There is not much on the subject of cognitive dysfunction in cats. We have to rely on common sense. Humans live much longer than they used to. This brings some problems to humankind, usually of the financial kind. The domestic cat lives much longer than the feral cat and substantially longer than most wild …
by Michael Older cats need a little attention from us as they are more likely to become ill. And an old cat’s behaviour is more likely to lead to neglect from us. This is because they are quieter, less demanding and out of the way more. This is a thumbnail. Please click the image …
by Michael My late, great lady cat at aged 19 Quite frequently we are called upon to judge the age of other people. A lot of money is spent by people trying to disguise their age. It invariably fails! This is because cosmetic surgery is always apparent to the observer if not to the …
Ahhh…gotta have a little snooze…Photo by Ted Abbott (Flickr) We are living longer and so are our cats. This is due to improvements in the control of infectious diseases and diet. In the USA this is also due to the gradual increase in the number of full-time indoor cats, which seems to be the …
by Finn Frode (Copenhagen, Denmark) Snehvide – white as snow and black as ebony All children should at least once during their childhood experience the fun and joy of raising a kitten. That’s probably one of the reasons that the shelter kittens have less problems finding new homes than the grown ups. Allow me …
Changes in Older Cats – Contents: Introduction Physical changes Functional changes Behavioral changes Introduction I live with an old cat. Her name is Binnie, or Lushty (my girlfriend’s name) or Judds (don’t ask how she got that one). She is 18 years old, estimated…because I found her as a young cat on the …
21 year old bookstore cat. Cat dementia? Perhaps. Photo by terriem under a creative commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Introduction It has been decided that there is such a thing as cat dementia. This doesn’t surprise me. Why shouldn’t there be? Cats have brains. They have bodies with organs that are similar if not, on …
