What affects us affects cats
I’m going to be politically correct. I’m going to write about animals generally which I think I’m allowed to do on a cat website. You may be watching the Olympics. You may like horses. I don’t particularly like horses but I was very impressed with Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin riding her horse Valegro. This is …
Lisa Keefe appears to me to be a very good cat guardian/caretaker. She looks after her crossbreed Bengal cat whose name is Bobby. Bobby liked to sleep in the washing machine. Lisa knew it and checked. On this occasion she had taken him out of the washing machine before turning the machine on. But …
Brynnan Grimes was a new student at a school in Virginia, USA. She was pleased to find out that she could attend an anatomy class but then quickly discovered that she had to skin and cut up a cat. So strongly did she object to this that she left the school, started a petition …
The phrase “sounds like a cat being strangled” or “sounding like a cat being strangled”, or variants of it, is unpleasant to cat lovers. I am not a politically correct person. However I do see the potential problems that can arise out of the use of phrases such as this one. In my opinion, …
Accidents happen. Yes they do. They are bound to because we are frail humans struggling with life. We are not robots. We are imperfect. But, do some cat owners cover up their sloppy attitude towards cat guardianship by telling themselves that “accidents happen”? When we say accidents happen we are absolving ourselves of error. …
DAP, a US company based in Baltimore, make a range of tradesman’s products, at least twenty-five of which are potentially toxic to cats because they contain ethylene glycol. You may remember that ethylene glycol is the reason why car anti-freeze kills cats. One of the dangers of using products such as sealants and adhesives …
In the UK, the pet owning community is petitioning Parliament to debate the reduction in the number of firework displays throughout the year to a maximum of four and the maximum permitted noise level of fireworks on public sale to be reduced from 120 dB (equivalent to a jet aircraft taking off at hundred …
This is a big question. It is a complicated question. Mistakes with cat caretaking are more likely to occur under certain circumstances. Mistakes are also likely to occur within specific areas of cat caretaking. Obviously, mistakes are also more likely to occur if the cat owner lacks sufficient knowledge in cat caretaking which must …
