Cat Behavior / hunting / hunting birds / predatory behaviour
September 22, 2023
There is a lot of talk nowadays about the killing of small mammals, marsupials and reptiles plus birds by unsupervised domestic cats outdoors, stray cats and feral cats. This topic highlights the biggest negative...
British Shorthair / Cat Behavior / cat personality / character / dominance / energy level / friendliness / hunting / hunting birds / Persian cat / predatory behaviour / Ragdoll Cat
March 12, 2023
In general, cat owners don’t like the fact that their domestic cat companions hunt. Clearly, I’m referring to cats allowed outside. A lot of cat owners also want their cats to go outside so...
October 11, 2021
Why do domestic cats eat the heads of mice that they catch? The answer is simple: it’s nutritious food. The domestic cat does not differentiate between different parts of the body except for one...
May 26, 2021
It is said that Australia’s out-of-control mouse plague could last for up to 2 years unless the government takes urgent action in giving farmers free poison which is an anticoagulant. The mice die of...
May 23, 2021
Professor Benjamin Hart from the University of California’s School of Veterinary Medicine claims that mice produce lactones which act like catnip on domestic cats and, in doing so, it acts as a defence against...
May 18, 2021
Because of eons of gradually refining evolution, the domestic cat is at the pinnacle of her predatory skills. She is one of the world’s finest predators, top of their food chain, highly efficient and...
May 15, 2021
NEWS AND COMMENT: what is shocking about this story is that it tells us about a plague of mice in New South Wales which is making people miserable without a mention of the world’s...
February 1, 2021
A good source tells me that the two most effective deworming medications are (1) praziquantel + pyrantel and (2) fenbendazole. These drugs are effective in treating ascarids, hookworms and tapeworms. They are effective broad...
September 23, 2020
Here is a photograph by Jak Wonderly of 232 animals that were injured by cats during 2019 and which could not be saved by a non-profit wildlife hospital based in San Raphael, California, USA:...
June 3, 2020
Domestic cats much prefer mice to birds no matter what source of information you refer to (including personal obesrvations by the cat owning public). In order to assess what, at a fundamental level, domestic...
March 13, 2020
Like many cat owners, I expect others to rescue mice from the jaws of their cat. I expect them to catch a mouse as it runs around the living room and hides behind curtains...
March 11, 2020
The Times newspaper informs me that more than 300,000 acres of German farmland have been stripped of their grass and the landscape reduced to a lunar vision by a plague of mice. It is...
March 8, 2020
The question implicitly refers to domestic cats. Cat guardians probably know the answer through their experience of seeing their cats bring mice into their home and release them. If alive and able mice sometimes...
October 31, 2019
I think you can break the question down into two separate questions. In my experience, cat owners and people in general are far more concerned about domestic cats preying on birds than they are...
October 19, 2019
This is a story about a woman, Jacqueline Lamb Jackson, who was desperate to get rid of mice in her home and who eventually turned to a domestic cat which proved successful. Over this...
