A Michael Broad Blog
After I have used my bath towel following a shower, my cat, Gabriel, loves the smell of it. He loves to roll around in it and is pleased to be covered by it. From my understanding of the domestic cat, the reason is because my scent is embedded into the fabric of the towel. …
The Daily Mail newspaper states that this black-and-white cat attacks the flute playing woman because he hates the music. The journalist says that the cat is enraged by the music and meows menacingly. The flute player is brave, the journalist states, and carries on playing. This is a battle between an angry cat and …
There is a long history of animals reacting to impending natural disasters. In 373 BC, in an ancient Greek city called Helike, a strange event was recorded: “All the mice and martens and snakes and centipedes and beetles left in a body,” wrote the Roman Claudius Aelianus. The event went unexplained until “after the …
I remember Jo Singer writing about her finicky felines; a good article featuring her Oriental Shorthair cats. I am sure many cat caretakers have the experience of their cat being difficult with new food even if it is better than the existing food. There is a different perspective on this well known feline attribute and …
Cats sitting inside circles on the ground is about an innate desire to feel secure within boundaries. This is a mini-phenomenon or at least the newspapers are calling it a phenomenon – but it is not as far as I am concerned. They say that you can trap a cat in a circle marked …
It would be a huge understatement for me to say that when it comes to feline behavioral issues, my husband Marty and I often don’t see eye-to-eye. As an example, the other day I was becoming extremely frustrated with Dr. Hush Puppy’s finicky feeding behavior. In fact, it was driving me straight up the …
American Ringtail Cat – how does this tail wag? Why do cats wag their tail? When my girl cat wants to go out I open the door for her (she is too fat to get through the cat flap!). If its horrible outside she waits and looks. In fact she almost always waits and …
