Do you sometimes yell at your cat or dog?
If you have sometimes yelled at your cat or dog I wouldn’t blame you. Perhaps you are very stressed. It is very easy to be stressed nowadays. The world is very stressful! There’s all...
Category: human stress
Example of heartless pet owner at vet’s clinic and kind assistant’s response
Intro: This is a comment from a visitor to PoC on the page about the relatively high suicide rate of people working in animal rescue. It is poignant and worthy of being re-published as...
Time to rethink gifting: 16 billion is wasted on unwanted gifts each year
There are a lot of blog posts out there this Christmas season that are bringing attention to how we aren’t gifting as we should. Click here for an article that goes into a lot...
Kitten Therapy is Cute, Adorable and Highly Effective (Video)
We know it and you’ve quite possibly seen it but here it is in case you haven’t. Before I go on, the video seems to be a Tidy Cats creation and you may know...
Puppies de-stress exam students
Puppies are being used to cut the stress that students are under during exam time but it could be cats or indeed any animal. Interacting with puppies in “puppy rooms” is far more healthy...
Does Our Anxiety Affect Our Cat’s Behaviour and Health?
You often see it: people discussing how their cat feeds off their mood. Â There seems to be some sort of extrasensory perception such that a domestic cat can sense our mood and pick it...
Thames Floods Feb 2014 (think of the cats)
Just a quick note about the Thames flooding. Here are a couple of snapshots taken yesterday evening of the Thames about a 15 minutes walk from where I live. They were taken with an...
Are cats more beneficial to our health than dogs?
By Jo Singer Those of us who live with felines are already keenly aware of the health benefits we get from sharing our homes and hearts with companion cats. Backing up this statement is...
Owning a Cat is Good for Your Health – Especially for Seniors
By Everett Malone There are more more than 95 million “owned” cats (cats as pets) in the US, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Cat owners have long felt that feline...
The Silent Moments With Your Cat
The intimacy that silence brings is the trademark of the best moments with my cat. He is lying across my legs. I stroke him and whisper gently to him, little loving sounds. He knows...
Stress in humans affects quality of cat caretaking
A person who is stressed for any reason that is unconnected to cats, is going to find it harder to be a good cat caretaker. That is my assessment. I am referring to a...
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