What affects us affects cats
Here are 10 basic rules to help you to become a better cat owner (caregiver). They start with a desire to better understand the domestic cat and through understanding you can provide for their needs more successfully. Learn about the domestic cat’s anatomical attributes The first rule is to spend a little bit of …
Are you aware that thermal receipts contain bisphenol A? Thermal receipts are the ones you get at supermarkets in the UK and in the USA, an estimated 93 percent of paper receipts are printed on thermal paper and are therefore coated with bisphenol A (or Bisphenol S). Environmental issues too We also have to …
There is a story from Cornwall, UK, online this morning which reminds me of the difficulties of dealing with a neighbour’s cat who likes to come into your home and eat your cat’s food and then calmly leave as if they are attending a hotel buffet. The story on the website Cornwall Live portrays …
Domestic cats are not born to love people and their default position with respect to other cats is to be suspicious of them. This is the nature of a solitary animal. I wonder, though, if this is entirely true after approximately 10,000 years of cat domestication. Perhaps the ability for domestic cats to love …
UK Parliament: Did you know that there is an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cats (APGOCATS)? I didn’t until this morning. It is a group of Parliamentarians – Members of Parliament, Peers and associated organisations – whose objective to further cat welfare. APGOCATS “seeks to support discussion and debate about what the public, politicians and …
With ‘optimistic enthusiasm’ is the way Dr Bradshaw describes how dogs make contact with other dogs. We know this is because their wild forebears were highly sociable wolves. The ancestors of domestic cats were ‘solitary and territorial’. The result for modern day domestic cats is that the ‘default’ mentality for them is that they …
Today is sunny. I lay down on the grass in my backyard for a while, chilling out doing nothing. My cat was in the backyard nosing around and I knew that if I lay down he’d enjoy it. And he did. He was ecstatic. He was all over me. I thought I’d mention it …
During the Covid-19 pandemic should be wash our cat’s paws as we wash our hands to help stop the spread of the virus?
