Liz picked out a story of the birth, in November 2012 of two jaguar cubs in Milwaukee Zoo. This was a particularly good event because the father is a wild jaguar that was captured in Central America and placed in the Belize Zoo before being shipped to Milwaukee. It is a rare event and …
Trying to take out a patent on a cat breed is interesting and very strange at the same time. I have never heard of it before. What are Patents? Think of devices and machines and not animals for a start off. Apple, the world’s biggest company, have been doing battle with Samsung over claims …
Does your cat come to you when you call her? Do you want to have that ability as part of your cat caretaking duties? I’d like to know if you have trained your cat and if so, how. In this post I explore the possibility of training your cat to come to you when …
The domestic animal control regulations of the state of Victoria, Australia, although well intentioned can have some distressing consequences. They need refining or their application needs refining. The State of Victoria, Australia has some pretty advanced law concerned with the keeping of domestic cats and dogs. The law has been around since 1994. I …
These are all Flickr pictures. They are direct from the photographer’s Flickr pages, which should please both the photographer and Flickr. The liger is a hybrid. The mother is a tiger and the father a lion. This is Hercules. The person is his trainer, I believe. The mating was apparently accidental. He is the …
by Jessica Rayne (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Is it possible that there’s a breed of cat crossed between a Maine Coon and a Bengal?!? I find both breeds gorgeous! What I mean by a breed of cat crossed between a Maine-coon and a Bengal, is a Maine-coon with fur the normal length for its breed, …
by Michael (London, UK) Look, to be honest, I just don’t get this idea of keeping cats off counters. But, I respect the views of others so I would really like to understand why people like Laurel Wilson (Fairfield, USA) uses some fancy if not irritating methods to keep cats off counters. She strings …
