What affects us affects cats
A domestic cat with no reproductive organs (a world first?) has popped up. This charming cat who looks female has been described as ‘gender neutral’ but reproductive organs are not the sole measure of gender. True or false? The Telegraph have a headline about a “gender-neutral” cat born with “no sexual organs”. I don’t …
Here are 9 facts about feline ‘freckles’ aka lentigo. Lentigo can infrequently cause alarm in cat owners. One asked on social media: “What is this all over my cat’s nose and mouth? And are there any possible treatments?”. They were referring to their ginger cat above. The words come from a Reddit.com user, and …
Here are 17 facts about the microbiota resident on the skin of domestic cats. It might surprise people to know that there is a multitude of microorganisms including bacteria and fungi on a cat’s skin called ‘skin microbiota’ creating a ‘skin microbiome’. It is similar to the way that cats and humans have a …
I can think of 6 reasons for cat food rejection or to put it another way your cat rejects the food you give him, and you believe that he is a finicky eater. And sometimes a pain in the rear end. And wasteful of the money that you plough into cat food which can …
This is the full social media question: “My boy cat just got neutered, and his sister, who he normally cuddles with, is hissing and growling at him? What’s going on?” I have seen this kind of question quite a lot on social media. This form of feline behavior can be a bit disturbing for …
A social media user presents four pictures of four different kittens. They were found with a stripey mum. The person asks whether all of the kittens could be hers. The photographs are below courtesy: u/s-dai. The answer is yes because kittens in the same letter can have different fathers. The process is called superfecundation. …
Fever coat can affect cats, rabbits and dogs as I understand it. It is also called “stress coat”. It should not be confused with “powder coat” (possibly due to the caramel gene). It is an abnormality in the coat of a new-born kitten in which the tips of the hair strands lack pigmentation and …
Where Do Clouded Leopards Live? The clouded Leopard is about the size of a small leopard but, in my opinion, it’s tail relative to its overall size is perhaps the longest of all the felids except for perhaps the snow leopard’s (see below). Fiona Sunquist in her book Wild Cats of the World modestly …
