Talking to cats, high voice or natural voice?

by George (Cumberland, MD USA) Cassie having a conversation with me. Some cat owners will talk to their pets in their natural human voice. Others talk to cats using a high falsetto range. Which is better? My opinion is we should address cats in the auditory range most closely similar to their own. Cat’s …

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Socializing Feral Cats

by Sheryl (Virginia, USA.) I love feral cats. My first feral was “Josie,” a tiny kitten, so young she crawled. My daughter found her on the campus of a local college and brought her home. I fed Josie kitten formula through a syringe. She bonded with me quickly but was skittish around others, men …

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Solutions To Cat Overpopulation

Feral Cat – photo by in-the-woods [Gary] under Creative Commons License No need for solutions to cat overpopulation as there is no problem. There is underpopulation, in fact. The argument goes that animal rights extremists (ARs) are misrepresenting the true situation. ARs say that the high number of cat and dogs in shelters indicates …

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Stories of Tiger Hunting

Stories of tiger hunting

Here are some stories of tiger hunting from the past; from a time when it was considered “normal” to hunt tigers for the fun of it. They are extracts from books in the public domain and courtesy of Google – thanks Google. I find these stories both fascinating and very disturbing. When looking back …

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Shelter Workers, PTSD, and Compassion Fatigue

by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Good morning readers…..When I began doing research on those involved in animal euthanasia, whether at the hands of a shelter worker, to those of us simply reading the descriptions of what took place, something went off in my head. I know it’s horrible for those of us who read about …

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