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Mike Tyson being interviewed on a podcast

Mike Tyson on insights into living with tigers and mountain lions

In a videoed podcast, Mike Tyson – puffing away on a spliff and clearly high to a certain extent – discussed what it was like to live with three tigers and then a mountain lion. His interviewers were also on cannabis. He doesn’t like talking about himself because it makes him feel uneasy. And he …

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Stress and irritability can lead to more cat scratches

Why do cats scratch some owners more than others?

I’d like to focus on one aspect of cat caregiving and a vital one. There is no doubt that a small percentage of cat owners are scratched by their cat not infrequently while other cat owners are hardly ever scratched. We don’t have percentages as there is no data on this. Socialised and healthy My …

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Marking the area of inflammation from a cat bite

Cat bites signs of infection – including a possible infection from a scratch

Before I talk about cat bites signs of infection, I would like to put cat bites into perspective. A cat that is adequately socialised (raised to behave reasonably in relation to other animals and people) and is decently treated will not normally bite you aggressively. They may bite instinctively in play because, for a domestic …

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Ted the Akita who killed two men with a bite to both

Mouth bacteria? This dog’s mouth bacteria were far more devastating than any cat’s

The domestic cat is disappointingly known sometimes as an animal with dangerous mouth bacteria. Humans have mouth bacteria too which is probably as dangerous as the bacteria found in the mouths of cats but we never mention human mouth bacteria. By contrast cats get a bad reputation because when they bite somebody it’s a bit …

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