What affects us affects cats
Note that this is a public pet cemetery. Private ones are fairly common. Until recently Spain’s reputation for animal rights was poor. They like their hunting in Spain too. Times change. The Iberian lynx has bounced back due to great conservation. Spain just opened its first public pet cemetery! It officially opened on June …
There are 2 reasons why it is not uncommon for cat owners to feel more distress and emotional hurt when their cat passes over the rainbow bridge than when relatives die including parents or a husband or wife. This is not a universal formula but I think it will be true on many occasions. …
A cat has no concept of its own death and so it cannot anticipate it, no matter how ill it feels. – Dr Desmond Morris If an old domestic cat left to their own devices falls ill, they don’t think that they are dying. They feel pain and discomfort and what it means …
I think that this is what is described as an existential question. The simple answer is that we (humans) don’t know if cats know that they are going to die one day. However, my gut feeling is that cats don’t know that they are going to die because they are not self-aware. Another similar …
Maryland, USA: Yes, by children. What happened to their upbringing? Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) have reported an example of cat abuse which is disturbing. All cat abuse is disturbing but when kids do it is is worse in my view. ACR and a passerby saved the lives of two kittens and their mother. The …
This is tender photograph. Rose Gauthier took a selfie with her just deceased cat in her arms lying on her chest. She’s in tears and the comments flooded in. It is an eye-catching photograph. It stopped me in my tracks because I have never seen one like it before. I have seen hundreds of …
