Although it’s normally dogs, cats are equally at risk of dying of heat stroke in the back of a car in warm or hot weather because their owner forgot they were there or were careless enough to be unaware of the dangers. In the UK, the RSPCA said that in 2021 they had 8,300 emergency …
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ORA is a Chinese marque of electric car and plug-in hybrid owned by Great Wall Motors. They are based in Baoding, China and started operating in 2018. In addition to the two vehicles named in the title they have other vehicles with names incorporating the word “cat”. For example: the ORA Black Cat, ORA White …
Chinese car manufacturer creates funky retro EVs called Punk Cat and Ballet Cat Read More »
It is said that airbags deploy with such force that they can damage a dog cage. I presume that means a metal one. What about the soft cat carriers which are popular? It seems certain that an airbag could seriously harm a cat in one of those in an accident when the cat is on …
Like people, domestic cats can get used to pretty well anything. It’s just about experiencing it and finding that it is not harmful to them. Indeed it can be pleasant. It’s about desensitising a cat who doesn’t like getting into the car. And many cats are uncomfortable with car travel. It’s a bit like socialising …
This is a nice picture of a cat in a car in America on a hot day. The nice bit about the picture is that the man used a computer screen in the car to tell the world outside that the air conditioning was on and the temperature was a nice 71 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool …
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I say “good” because I think she made the right decision. Of course I do. In fact she did make the right decision because the only thing that was damaged in this reported accident by the New York Post is the car, although it does look like a very nice car! The lady, Dilma Pazmino, …
Tesla, the high profile electric car manufacturer created by Elon Musk, looks set to introduce a ‘dog mode’. You can expand that to ‘pet mode’ in my view and therefore include cats. ‘Pet mode’ will enable drivers to leave their pets inside their Tesla car in hot weather even when the windows are shut. This …
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These are personal accounts by two unrelated women both of whom have seen kittens thrown from moving vehicles during kitten season in Michigan state, USA. Their first hand experiences recounted in their own words paint a clear but horrific picture of callousness and wanton insensitivity towards vulnerable animals. Marielle Wilson Marielle said she was terrified. …
This is a doctor (a GP), Linda Smith, living in the country in England who lives near a main road (Stanghow Road near New Skelton) where cars can legally travel at 60 mph. She has lost four cats in four years on the road. She wants the council (Redcar and Cleveland Council) to reduces to …
The motor vehicle, invented by humankind in the late 1800s is a hellishly dangerous invention for the domestic cat. There are so many ways that a domestic cat can be hurt by an automobile. A cat can be trapped in the engine compartment or most commonly killed on the road and in the story below, …
When Man Invented the Car He Did the Domestic Cat a Great Disservice Read More »
This page concerns the UK but to a lesser extent it would also apply to the USA. A study looked at the factors which may predispose cats to being involved in road traffic accidents (RTA). The number of cats in the study was 115. The study compared these 115 cats with a control group of …
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This is a UK cat cruelty story, which adds a variation to the “throw-the-cat-out-of-a-moving-car method of feline abandonment. We all know the classic method: place kitten in a cardboard box drive down road, usually, a road on which there is fast moving traffic throw box with kitten inside out of the passenger seat window ignore …
A new way to abandon a cat and be cruel at the same time Read More »
I explore ways to keep cats of cars. However, I’ll state at the outset that I don’t see a need to keep cats off cars because: a cat has never climbed onto my car, and even if they did I wouldn’t mind. Cars aren’t that important to me… …..but I do understand that in colder …
Since Michael has been on a roll with how cats can be injured or killed by cars, I decided to approach the subject once again from our cat Sealy’s perspective. By this I mean cats can die under the hood in warm weather too. Many areas of the U.S. get hot in the summer. And …
It does not matter if you are a puma in Florida, a Geoffory’s cat in La Pampa province, Argentina or a domestic cat in London, England; cars kill them all the time. Perhaps traffic is the best example of how human population growth and consequential growth in human activity bears down on the cat, wild …
