What affects us affects cats
In a study conducted at Lincoln University, UK it was found that: ‘most cats used the visual cue to learn the location of the food’ (by ‘cats’ she means the domestic cat – felis silvestris catus). The participating cats had a choice: use your nose or your sight and 4 out 6 used their …
On the Mirror.co.uk website they quote Facebook, “Content about animal cruelty is against our terms and will be removed once reported to us.” Is that enough and when should they be removed? They don’t appear to be sticking to their word. Such content is still being posted. The general mood is that it is …
The story of Bart, AKA Markie, who returned from the dead after being buried, has taken a new turn (see Zombie Cat posts). There have been questions brought up about the validity of the GoFundMe page set up to raise money to first pay for Bart’s medical care, then to cover the cost of …
I guess they had no choice but to plead guilty in the hope that they would receive a lenient sentence. This concerns the Ashtabula couple, Kaine Fowler and Melissa M. Candela, who posted a video on Facebook of them balling up cats and tossing them between themselves for entertainment, in an apartment where they …
Banksy is the famous and elusive graffiti artist whose works are very valuable and yet he creates them on walls in public places where almost anyone can steal them. He has created works around Gaza City to highlight the plight of the Palestinians who are waiting for pledges to be honored worth billions of …
There’s a nice story in the online media about a Swedish cat who will be aged 30 this spring. Her name is Missan. She lives in southern Sweden. Her caretaker, Åsa Wickberg, says she found her as a kitten in 1985. She contacted Guinness World Records because she had read an article about another …
This is great news for anti-declaw advocates. The Lakewood Animal Hospital has been declawing cats for many years but have decided to stop. The news comes from veterinarian Tara Hudye. She believes that a growing number of vets are deciding that the declawing of cats is unhealthy to cats as it leads to behavioural …
At one time during the Black Death, an epidemic that lasted from 1347 to 1353 and which returned several times including the great plague of London of 1665, it was thought that cats caused it. During the winter of 1348 and the following summer the Black Death killed a quarter of England’s population and …
