A Michael Broad Blog
“The dramatic decrease in value of domestic cats over a 1000 years feeds cat abuse” – Michael Several statutes (laws made by government) specifically mentioned domestic cats showing how valuable they were for their mice catching skills. One Welsh statute of the tenth century stated: “The price of a cat is fourpence. Her qualities …
An artificial intelligence (AI) controlled cat door (cat flap) could be manufactured to distinguish between an owner’s cat bringing in a mouse and a cat without a mouse in the mouth. This would be very helpful to a lot of cat owners whose cats are prolific hunters because it is unpleasant for a lot …
The Holy Grail of playing with your cat is to achieve the situation in which your cat growls when she catches the ‘prey’ (a cat tease) telling you that her ‘raw cat’ has been activated. What Jackson Galaxy advocates is to mimic as accurately as possible how prey would react in the presence of …
Cat owners see this under their bed. What do I mean? Well, this is what I found under my bed this morning. You can tell that it is under my bed because of the dust! It is a strange looking object. However it wouldn’t be if you had known that last night at about …
Because of renovations to the Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) mice are more visible. They have been disturbed. They have come out of their burrows and behind the walls and are now clambering over desks and munching on MPs’ cheese sandwiches. Some members of Parliament are becoming jealous of the resident moggies at …
The UK Parliament has thrown away a good opportunity to raise the profile of MPs and cats. The British Parliament (Palace of Westminster), described as “the mother of all parliaments”, has rejected the idea of adopting one, or perhaps, two rescue cats as mousers to keep down and control the rodent population within the …
The old rhyme goes: Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock Only in our case the mouse did not run down. Kitty, one of the cats our late mother had at the time, brought home a live mouse, he evaded the …
Another slice of Siberian cat life, this time from the Far East. The cat’s name is “Syoma”. He is an all-white cat with copper eyes and a dense short double coat. His work is to keep the rodent population down around the houses at the entrance to the Kronotsky Nature Reserve on the Kamchatka …
