When a lot of people feel that they have to cut bits off a cat to modify them it is one sign of the failure of cat domestication. It is a lack of acceptance. In two of the five cases … Continue reading →
However, the ‘active ingredients’ in respect of smell for marking purposes are a couple of unusual amino acids namely felinine and isovalthene which create the pungent smell and which degrade providing information about the presence of other cats.
Continue reading →The question in the title is probably meant to mean: do cats see objects under ultraviolet light only? For humans, ultraviolet light is beyond the visible spectrum and so we can’t see it. However, fundamentally, the anatomy of the cat’s … Continue reading →
Cats must have binocular vision because they have two eyes working in unison to create one image in the brain. Cats have the most highly developed binocular vision of all the carnivores – Fiona Sunquist writing Wild Cats of the … Continue reading →
Cats cannot see infrared light because it is not part of the visible spectrum. In this way cats are identical to humans except there MAY be a difference in that it is said that cats might be able to see … Continue reading →
The fur coat of a cat is made up of between 3-30 million hair strands. The calculation is difficult to make accurately in my view. Each hair strand is made mostly of keratin. This is the same tough protein which … Continue reading →
Rosie and Poppy live with Sarah Jenkins who lives in the US. Sarah is a teacher and she decided to share her quality photos of her Sphynx odd-eyed cats on social media because someone said that they looked ‘weird’. Weird … Continue reading →
A picture of a beautiful cat with eyes the colour and texture of the sun. Domestic eyes can be stunning. … Continue reading →
The mirror test is when you look in the mirror and recognise yourself. You are self-aware. Cats can’t do it. Some people are saying these videos prove that cats are self-aware. I don’t see it that way myself. As I … Continue reading →
Domestic cats (and all wild cats bar the cheetah) are known for their retractable claws. All the experts say it online but I disagree with them. To describe the claws as retractile or retractable misleads the way the tendons and … Continue reading →
