The image (a screenshot from a video) tells you all you need to know about the difficulties that some domestic and stray cats can have in confronting a rat. That’s why I think this is particularly relevant to a website about cats. A lot of people think that barn cats and domestic cats can …
No, I’m not referring to domestic cats would like to open refrigerator doors and creep inside to either ‘steal’ the food for have a snooze, I’m referring to a special race of domestic cat living in sub-zero temperatures in industrial-sized refrigerator plants at the turn of the 20th century (late 1800s to early 1900s). …
Who said (me!) that domestic cats are not very good at catching and killing rats? This video fatally undermines the statement but it is about individual cats’ temperaments and this one is full of courage. As you can see, the cat hears a rat under the hard standing in which there is a small …
No, it is not because it is entirely normal if the pair have been raised together. We should not be surprised when a domestic cat and a domestic rat get along so well because humans and cats get along well for the same reason: cats are socialised to humans (and vice versa). In the …
The emir of Potiskum, Yobe State, Nigeria, whose name is Alhaji Bubaram Ibn Wuriwa Bauya, wants the citizens of Potiskum to adopt a domestic cat or cats to keep rats at bay. Infected Mastomys rats contaminate food and household items with urine or faeces. This transmits the disease to people, which is endemic in …
Someone speculated that the cat was protecting the pet rat but I don’t see that. I see a rat being friends with a cat and a dog wanting to play with the cat. The rat is just a bystander. He’s in the way. It is quite an interesting threesome nonetheless. The same rules apply: …
All over the Internet, at the moment, there is the result of a study on the predation of rats by feral cats which took place in New York City, USA. Misconception The conclusion of the study is that feral cats have little interest in attacking and killing rats. Therefore, the public has a misconception …
by Michael (London, UK) I love it when different species of animal get on really well. And I am talking about species of animal rather than the human animal. It is a glimpse of how it could be for us in getting along with people of other nations and beliefs! There are a lot …
