6 signs your cat might be lonely. Discussion.
This is a commentary on Dr. Sarah Wooten’s thoughts on lonely domestic cats and how they tell us that they are lonely (see video at base of article). How many domestic cats are lonely...
Tagged: cat aggression
Does a multi-cat lifestyle lead to more negative human-cat interactions?
The question in the title asked whether cats living in multi-cat homes tend to have more negative interactions with their owner compared to single cats living in the home with their owner. I can...
12 domestic cat tail-signals in an INFOGRAPHIC
I hope this two pages of an infographic helps in understanding domestic cat tail body language/signalling. It can be quite subtle. There is one cat breed, a rare one, with a curled-over tail called...
Cats are naturally aggressive. Discuss.
The title sounds too negative. It almost sounds as if it was written by a cat hater. But no, the words come from the world’s most prolific and best-known veterinarian/author in one of the...
Do cats chase foxes?
Do cats of the domestic kind chase foxes? Yes and no, but often yes and Larry the Cat at Number 10 Downing Street, the office of the UK’s Prime Minister, sets a good example...
10 friendliest cat breeds towards humans
Here is a list of the 10 friendliest cat breeds towards humans. You have to be careful when you make a statement like that. A lot of websites do make this statement but it...
Can a domestic cat kill a human?
As the word at the beginning of the question is “can” I can discuss it theoretically. Theoretically a domestic cat could kill a human directly (physically) under very exceptional and infinitesimally rare circumstances but...
11 types of domestic cat aggression and how to resolve them
This is an outline of 11 different types of domestic cat aggression that you might be confronted with and how to resolve them. They concern both aggression towards other cats and human caregivers. Intercat...
Cat bites signs of infection – including a possible infection from a scratch
Before I talk about cat bites signs of infection, I would like to put cat bites into perspective. A cat that is adequately socialised (raised to behave reasonably in relation to other animals and...
63% of declawed cats have bone fragments in their toes. Go figure how that feels.
A study first published May 23, 2017, entitled Pain and adverse behaviour in declawed cats, definitively concluded that 63% of the declawed cats in the study had bone fragments remaining in their toes. The...
Sweet white cat dominates the dogs on her trips around London
This sweet and beautiful all-white cat dominates and terrorises the dogs that she meets on her trips around London with her human caregiver Trevor Nelson. She does it with her aggression. Who said that...
Minority of unfriendly shelter cats become more friendly during their stay at the shelter
In general terms, a study concluded that 80% of shelter cats were classified as friendly or very friendly on the first assessment while those that were not became more friendly over time. Shelter cats...
Defensive, hissing domestic cat slaps down attacking cobra (video)
Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it....
Why do domestic cats fight?
The question in the title should be extended to feral and stray cats and the answer is the same in any case. Territory The root cause of the majority of domestic cats fighting is...
Woman hospitalized after savage attack by Bengal cat causing deep wounds
Sheffield, UK-news and views: Barbara Neal claims that her neighbour’s Bengal cat attacked her savagely without provocation (see my comment at base of page, she did provoke the cat without realising it). She says...
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