What affects us affects cats
Cats and dogs drink in very different ways. I don’t want to sound biased but cats employ a far more sophisticated technique based upon fancy physics. Whereas dogs use their tongues to ladle the liquid into their mouths by scooping it up, cats use the physics of inertia to overcome the pull of gravity …
Yes, cats’ eyes are more sensitive to light than those of humans. This is why they shine in the dark because of a reflective layer behind the retina which is called the tapetum lucidum – translation: “bright tapestry”. Humans do not have this layer and it allows the cat to capture light more effectively. …
We know how mobile the visible part of the cat’s ear is. They have over 30 muscles to move their ear flaps (pinnae). They often listen to sounds behind them without turning their head towards the sound. It’s impressive and it looks as if they don’t care about you when you are talking to …
Sphynx cats tend to throw up some strange photographs. One I published years ago showed the webbed feet of cats. The hairless cat’s lack of fur reveals more clearly the domestic cat’s anatomy to us. We see things we would not normally see. In this instance we see a lot of loose skin attached …
Sphynx cats don’t sweat perspiration except from the pawpads just like any other domestic cat with fur.
You can work out the real reason why domestic cats purr by observing when they do it. There was a time when people believed that the purr simply meant that their cat was contented. But there’s more to it than that. Thanks to the repeated observation of domestic cat behaviour we know that cats …
My research and my own thoughts have brought me to the conclusion that there are two reasons why cat pupils are slits rather than circular apertures. It comes down to evolution and survival as is always the case with respect to anatomical features. Depth of field The first reason is spelled-out in great detail …
This is a chart showing milestones in a kitten’s development before and after birth over the first weeks. It is based on John Bradshaw’s Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed. If you click on it you go to my Flickr photostream where you can use it, if you want to, by grabbing Flickr’s code …
