What affects us affects cats
This looks like a cat smile. Cats don’t really smile or if they do it is amazingly subtle. In fact the whole topic of cats smiling is deeply philosophical! Do they smile at all or it is a quirk of their anatomy? Do cats feel ebulliently happy enough to smile? I don’t know. I …
I think this is a new way to interpret the name of the Ragdoll cat. They act like ragdolls (the toy) when getting through tiny spaces. In this remarkable video on Twitter you see a Ragdoll cat pushing his way under a sofa but the gap he has to go through is 7 cm …
Here are some interesting facts about feline hyperthyroidism. What interests me particularly is the increased risk of developing the condition due to exposure to certain chemicals and the fact that full-time indoor cats are at increased risk. I have always felt that there are too many odourless yet poisonous chemicals inside the home in …
Remarkably, it’s quite difficult to find out from a really good source information about the size of a domestic cat’s brain. Internet users have to rely on a website that closed in 2007 (serendip.com) but the information looks good so I will repeat it here. Wikipedia relied upon the information, incidentally. The best book …
Yes, the mountain lion aka puma and cougar is slightly bigger than the wolf on average but it is hard to make a clean comparison because the weight and size of the mountain lion varies a lot of its range . So the mountain lions in the middle of its distribution (Brazil for instance) …
A cat’s tail is made of bone (caudal vertebrae), ligaments, tendons, cartilage, muscle, skin and hair. A typical cat has between twenty-one and twenty-three caudal vertebrae which are extension of the spine. Exceptionally a cat with a full tail may have as few as eighteen or as many as twenty-eight of these bones. They …
Noisy breathing in domestic cats indicates an obstructed airway. The airway that I’m referring to is the passage through the nose (or mouth), the back of the mouth, down the trachea (windpipe) and into the bronchail tubes of the lungs. If there is an obstruction in this airway breathing might be noisy and the …
No, cats do not stay in heat after they get pregnant. The more technical word for “heat” is oestrus (estrus in America) which is the period of sexual receptivity. During oestrus the queen (unspayed female cat) seeks out males and allows mating. Mating is necessary for ovulation to occur in the female cat. This …
