What affects us affects cats
Breathtaking right? from r/cats Note: The above is an embedded image from the Reddit.com website. It may stop working over time. If that has happened I apologise but I have no control over it. And I won’t know about it unless someone tells me. Here is the same picture sharpened up a bit. The …
Ivory is a 10 year old, white, domestic shorthaired cat with odd-eye colour. Her right eye is gold coloured and her left eye is yellow-green coloured. Her owner, Gabriela Carvalho, 28, a nursing student, adopted Ivory from the same rescue centre that she adopted her former cat from, whose name was Luna. Luna died …
The two main reasons why cats can jump so high is because most of their muscles consist of fast-twitch fatiguing cells. They give the cat its speed and these muscles allow them to jump several times their own length in a single bound but they use up all the energy in an instant. The …
Yes, it is normal for a cat’s whiskers to shed. In fact, I see them occasionally around my home. We are told that they shed less frequently than the hair strands that make up a cat’s coat. A cat’s whiskers shed as part of the normal growth and recycling process. If a cat is …
Well, domestic cats must feel the cold, common sense tells us that because domestic cats like warmth and they seek out warmth such as laps and boiler rooms. That said domestic cats allowed outside might spend quite a long time outside in near freezing conditions when, for example, watching for mice in a area …
Yes, domestic cats do vary in intelligence. The same must apply to the wild cats. I can say with confidence, however, that domestic cats vary in intelligence based upon tests carried out on dogs. I know that is not what you want to hear but we are reliant on dog studies sometimes to extrapolate …
Cat whiskers are made of keratin. It’s the same material which makes calluses, hooves, claws, horns, feathers, nails, hair and scales. So it is the same substance that makes a cat’s fur coat only the individual hair strands of cat whiskers are much thicker and their roots are three times deeper than standard cat …
The title comes from a Google search, which prompts Google to throw up suggested search terms. This is one of them. It implies that a cat owner can feel their cat’s kittens in her belly. The slightly worrying aspect of this is that veterinarians advise that, “Palpitating the queen’s abdomen requires experience and gentleness, …
