What affects us affects cats
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 period of time, from failure to success, Jacqueline learned to love a cat who they adopted from a local rescue …
An artificial intelligence (AI) controlled cat door (cat flap) could be manufactured to distinguish between an owner’s cat bringing in a mouse and a cat without a mouse in the mouth. This would be very helpful to a lot of cat owners whose cats are prolific hunters because it is unpleasant for a lot …
What do you do when your cat brings in a live mouse? It seems to me that there are several options. And the options depend upon how things pan out and whether you fear or like mice. I like them. My cat will bring a mouse in and he won’t kill it immediately which …
What the question is asking is how the cat’s owner can stop his or her cat behaving naturally. It is not possible to do that if mice are available. It is not even kind to stop a cat acting naturally. Hunting is at the center of a domestic cats psyche. And it pleases a …
In working this out we are looking at simply maths (math) but there is a practical side to this. In practice you can’t rely on simple maths because there will be other factors like where are the cats and mice and how keen are the cats to kill the mice? Are they all domestic …
There are two theories why cats bring home live mice or dead mice or birds or someone’s underwear from next door. Desmond Morris asserts that when cats bring home freshly caught prey, often a live mouse, they view their human caretaker as part of their family and on this occasion they treat their human …
Job Description: cats required with a history of frequent and successful mouse hunting at the Houses of Parliament, Central London. This is a genuine working role. You will not be deemed to be a “pet” as pets are forbidden in the mother of all Parliaments on the shores of the Thames. One Member of …
This scientific research into the effect of a chemical in cat urine on mice has me baffled. The researchers in Moscow (AN Severtov Institute of Ecology and Evolution) found that when very young mice were exposed to a chemical in cat urine (I don’t know what chemical) they are less likely to avoid the …
