What affects us affects cats
Greg Krueger loves trails and cats. He is also a good craftsman. The end result is a home which is full of trails for cats and they’re all high up. This, then, is a beautiful environment for domestic cats. Cats like to move vertically. They like to be high up looking down and of …
The things mentioned in the title are potential sources of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and a study in Taiwan found that high concentrations of these particles ‘was significantly associated with respiratory disease in cats, suggesting potentially harmful effects of indoor air pollutants on feline patients’. The classic image of a cat enjoying the …
April 22 is Earth Day. It is useful to think from time to time about how we can help protect the environment and reduce our cat’s carbon footprint. There is no doubt in my mind that people are waking up to the environmental damage caused by human consumption particularly with respect to the air …
Boredom in cats is perhaps a more serious problem than people think. Obviously, the problem of boredom in cats is potentially more prevalent for full-time indoor cats. A lot has been written about enriching a cat’s environment. This counteracts boredom. However, I’m fairly confident that very few people optimally enrich their cat’s environment if …
The headline caught my eye which is why I have reused it. What does it mean? How can a family who own five cats live in a litter box? It is actually not as difficult as one might imagine but I am not referring to an actual normal sized litter box that you buy …
The idea for this post comes from Dr Karen Becker. I have slightly unconventional views on this subject. I don’t feel it is hard to keep my home clean because I share it with my cat. Perhaps it is because I am used to it or I don’t see the dirt! Actually, the latter …
This is a short post which reminds us that some but not all feline behavioural problems presented to veterinarians at their clinics are due to what can be described as “compromised welfare”. Compromised welfare means that the cat’s owner is not providing optimum welfare towards his/her cat. Here are some examples. The best-known example …
Good for Jackson Galaxy. I wonder how the manufacturers react when the world’s best know cat behaviorist and expert denounces dry cat food in public in Singapore. Jackson was in Singapore promoting the sixth series of his television show, My Cat From Hell, on Animal Planet. Of course, he’s right about dry cat food but …
