What affects us affects cats
A retired police detective inspector in the UK, Colin Butcher, who has dealt with many thefts believes that about 50% of cats have a second home they frequent regularly. He said that he’s heard of four people believing that they own the same cat. How many cat owners inadvertently share ownership? We are talking …
Intro At heart this is a cat story which is played out across the planet daily. A domestic cat belonging to one home owner is fed by another home owner down the street. It happens all the time and people normally accept it because they accept that domestic cats wander and don’t understand the …
According to the Wikipedia numbers it is cat roadkill Armageddon in America. But accuracy is a problem and the question has to be limited to countries like the USA or the UK because accurate data is hard to come by and even for these countries there is quite a lot of guesswork because you …
There are several reasons why cats are popular in Russia. In fact a survey reported on the Enjoy Russian Language School tells me that in proportion to the country’s overall population more Russians (59%) have a cat at home than any other country. One reason is to do with the historical culture. In Russia …
The vast majority of Singaporeans live in public housing managed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). These are flats owned by the government and leased for 99 years. Wikipedia reports that 78.7% of resident Singaporeans live in HDB homes. Lawrence Wong, the Minister for National Development has declared that when balancing the rights …
There was a time – and it lasted for thousands of years – when people believed in a hierarchal order of animals. A lot of people still believe it, which can encourage animal abuse, but they are living in the past. In the 19th century domestic cats were below dogs and horses in this …
Neurotic people who own cats come out badly in a studyA about the personality of cat owners and how it affects the well-being of their cats. The immediate observation by this study is that cat ‘ownership’ parallels the parent-child relationship. Where a mother of a child is neurotic there is a real link between …
Can cats be left alone during the day? This is a question that people are asking Google. You have to answer it in a common sense way because I don’t think you’ll find studies on it. I can also rely on personal experience. The first points to make are (1) domestic cats have become …
