Cat Behavior / cat domestication / Cat History / character / Feral Cats / friends / future of cat domestication / Human to cat relationship / predation / predatory behaviour
September 21, 2023
Many cat owners might say that their domestic cat companion is an excellent pet. I’m going to say something which is almost heretical and something which sounds anti-cat as if said by a cat...
cat aggression / Cat Behavior / cat emotions / Cat Products / home range / Human to cat relationship / multicat households / scent marking / scratching posts / stress / territory and home range
September 5, 2023
I think this is quite a complicated question and I’ll try and tell you why. I’m mainly thinking of the full-time indoor cat scenario where there might be half a dozen cats living in...
cat aggression / Cat Behavior / cat tease - playing / Human to cat relationship / kitten play / play / play / redirected aggression
September 5, 2023
This looks a bit strange – very strange perhaps – but effective. The idea comes from Rebecca Watson in her book The Cat Expert. I like the idea if you have a problem with...
Cat Aggression / cat aggression / Cat Behavior / human behavior / territory and home range / violence and aggression
August 14, 2023
We think of cats as territorial and of male cats aggressively fighting each over their territory but humans are infinitely worse. The infographic summarises the situation at 2023. But you can look back in...
anxiety / Cat Behavior / home alone / human behavior / leaving cat alone / sadness / seeking attention / separation anxiety / unhappy cat
May 28, 2023
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...
beautiful personality / cat aggression / Cat Behavior / cat body language / cat personality / cat relationships in multi-cat house / cats don't get along / conflict / cooperative behaviors / friendliness / multicat households / tail position communication
April 4, 2023
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...
cat aggression / Cat Anatomy / Cat Behavior / cat body language / cat emotions / friendliness / greeting behavior / indecision / spraying / tail
March 31, 2023
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...
November 29, 2022
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...
October 13, 2022
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...
August 18, 2022
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...
July 25, 2022
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...
April 21, 2022
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...
March 31, 2022
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...
March 20, 2022
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...
December 26, 2021
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...
