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Picture of a tortoiseshell cat with a tooth protruding into the opening of their nostril

May 11, 2023 by Michael Broad

To almost everyone except veterinarians, this is a very unusual cat photograph. It shows the closed mouth and the nose of a tortoiseshell cat with a tooth protruding from the upper jaw into the opening of the right nostril. And if you look to the right of the picture there appears to be two …

Cats have no fear of death which is an enormous advantage over us

April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 by Michael Broad

A cat has no concept of its own death and so it cannot anticipate it, no matter how ill it feels. – Dr Desmond Morris If an old domestic cat left to their own devices falls ill, they don’t think that they are dying. They feel pain and discomfort and what it means …