What affects us affects cats
You would think that the answer is obvious and that you would say that indoor cats are healthier than indoor/outdoor cats. It’s more subtle than that. This is a big subject but perhaps it is useful to divide the health problems into two categories (1) trauma (2) everything else including parasitic infections, infectious diseases, …
Miska is described as a badass cat, the baddest cat in the US but she’s just a standard free-roaming, tabby, indoor/outdoor cat who happens to live in Bellevue, Washington, USA, where there are extensive animal laws/regulations governing cat and dog ownership under Bellevue Municipal Code Title 8. For example, cats have to be licensed. …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The story comes from Kirchseeon, Upper Bavaria, Germany. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a minor story in terms of the amount of animal abuse that is meted out to companion animals on the planet. However, I thought it would be useful to dig around a bit on a German …
NEWS AND VIEWS: BIRKDALE, UK: A cat owner has lost four of her cats at a stroke to deliberate poisoning by antifreeze. It is also believed that the cats were poisoned in their back garden after food was thrown into it. Arwen Davies, 45, of Birkdale, is, of course, devastated and she’s convinced they …
The answer to the question is not straightforward because you have to factor in health and welfare as well as happiness.
What I love about this contraption, the invention of a wife and constructed by her husband, is that it was boldly conceived without overanalysing how it might look. And don’t get me wrong, it looks great. The focus was on the welfare of their cats and they love it. This cat owner realises the …
This is another useful ‘map’ showing the movements of a domestic cat fitted with a GPS transmitter. I don’t know where it is. It’s clearly a suburb and the houses are detached and they appear to be single story (bungalows). There is therefore quite a lot of space so it’s possibly the US. That’s …
If your domestic cat is an indoor/outdoor cat it is nice to have an idea as to how far he or she roams. You want to keep tabs on where she is, at least roughly. Well, normally domestic cats don’t travel that far from their home. Many lost cats have been found a hundred …
