Cat Breed Selector
This is a cat breed selector in the form of a slide show. That might sound strange but it works well because you can control the way the slide show works by clicking on...
Tagged: adoption
“Here is 12-year-old Hermes who has lived in the shelter for six years. The lady started crying in joy when I said I wanted him.”
“Here is 12-year-old Hermes who has lived in the shelter for six years. The lady started crying in joy when I said I wanted him”. The words are those of a Reddit user (username:...
My advice to shelter cats on how to get adopted
The idea for this post is a photo and text from a Reddit user who said that she had been dumped by her partner. She went to a shelter and adopted the first cat...
Feline Temperament Profile (FTP) test to evaluate shelter cats before adoption
The Feline Temperament Profile (FTP) test has been around for quite a long time. Its purpose is to evaluate the temperament, personality and character of shelter cats before adoption. FTP rates cats on aggressiveness,...
Kittens: bold and friendly compared to timid and less friendly
Kittens who inherit a personality which is bold or confident are more likely to be perceived as friendly. Relatively bold kittens are more likely to interact with new objects and occurrences. This gives the...
Do you think that stray, unwanted cats follow people because they’ve chosen them to live with?
It is a photograph of a black cat sleeping on a couch on the Reddit.com website. The photographer said: “I found him outside the gym, kept following me, what should I name him?” It’s...
Rescue cat with phallus marking on his face is called Dick
A sweet, almost completely white, rescue cat has a black marking down the middle of his face in the shape of a phallus. This prevented him being adopted at a rescue centre. Eventually a...
42% of people adopt companion animals as a “starter child”
SURVEY – COMMENT: A survey commissioned by a pet food manufacturer, I and love and you, conducted by OnePoll produced some extraordinary information. Perhaps the most outstanding is the information in the title to...
Why some cats are better for your children than others
There are two major aspects to children interacting with domestic cats which have a bearing upon the safety of the child. The first is whether the child has been trained to interact with a...
Unbelievable: UK households buy 3.2 million animals in lockdown
Online news media reports that a £500m investor plans to cash in on the cats and dogs boom. What boom? The coronavirus cat and dog boom. It’s bizarre and frankly disturbing if it takes...
Taiwanese town where tourists abandon and steal cats on a whim
NEWS AND COMMENT: Taiwan’s ‘cat village’ is the town of Houtong in the north. It is referred to as a ‘cat village’ because there are hundreds of cats while the population of humans is...
What cats are better, male or female?
Google is asked by Internet users to answer the question in the title. The fact of the matter is that the question shouldn’t be asked in the first place. This is because neither the...
Domestic cat with longest neck
Olivia, who was living at Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control at the time the photograph was taken, has the longest neck of a domestic cat that I have seen. I’m sure that...
Cats Protection report that black cats are no longer being ‘left on the shelf’
Some good news for people who love cats, all kinds, no matter what their colour. We know that normally black cats have a harder time attracting the attentions of an adopter visiting a rescue...
Combined cat café and hotel allows guests to live with cats before adopting
This is a cool cat café in Japan. What I really like about their operation is that they combine a cat café and a small hotel which allows guests to spend time alone with...
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