A recent YouGov poll has found that companion animal guardians (a.k.a. pet owners) are almost split down the middle with 51% living with a dog or dogs and 47% cohabiting with a cat or cats. An interesting finding of the … Continue reading →
There’s a picture in The Times newspaper today March 5, 2020 which I have taken the liberty of publishing on my website because it is interesting and it is unsurprising. It was taken by Ali Aboukhalil and distributed by Media … Continue reading →
One of the pleasures of our relationship with the domestic cat is their innocence and I use that word in the best possible sense. Unlike people they don’t hold grudges and they don’t play mind games. My cat was a … Continue reading →
A study published in August 2017 on the sciencedirect.com website comes to the conclusion that the domestic cat, in a choice between eating food and interacting with humans, prefers the latter. I’ll have to presume that the human has to … Continue reading →
Have you noticed how patient domestic cats can be? It is one of their great strengths. It is manifested in many ways, two of which I’ll mention. Domestic cats have various ways of hunting prey just like their wild counterparts. … Continue reading →
It can be argued that, in the 21st century, people demand too much from domestic cats. It is only recently, say within the past 10-20 years that people in general have altered their expectations of how domestic cats should behave. … Continue reading →
There are two reasons why cats sit on a person’s lap: warmth and contact with the person. The latter is a desire to be close to their human caretaker and companion. That’s perfectly normal. And we know that domestic cats … Continue reading →
This is an impromptu test of canine and feline intelligence or perhaps it is not. It seems to have some significance. Perhaps it is more to do with personality type. There are three companion animals. The first one to decide … Continue reading →
It may be natural for a domestic cat to be fearful of visitors because visitors enter the cat’s home range and may intrude on the most ‘intimate’ parts of their home range (the room where they feel most comfortable). They … Continue reading →
It is going to sound a bit weird to state this but it does affect the quality of life of the domestic cats. Let’s think about it. We, humans, have a range of interests and therefore a range of things … Continue reading →
