A Michael Broad Blog
The reason why people don’t want animals to be able to communicate using language is because if it is decided that animals can do this it presents huge ethical problems. It’ll open up the door to a greater awareness that animals, including farm animals, have emotional, mental lives and the ability to communicate with …
How does your cat tell you that she is hungry? Or how does your cat confirm that she would like some food? For a while I wasn’t sure with my cat whether he was hungry or not which led to some wastage. The problem may have arisen partly because he’s a very good hunter …
Megan Walendzinski on Quora.com asks: Can cats learn words? This is an interesting question and I’ll try and answer it in this short post. There is no doubt that domestic cat cannot learn the spoken or written words of, let’s say, the English language. They can’t read English. But domestic cats can learn the …
Many people still misunderstand the domestic cat. Many people are distanced from cat behaviour. They do not look after a cat and have not had the opportunity to observe a domestic cat by living with him for a long time. Even cat owners sometimes fail to understand their cat properly through being unobservant and …
Your pets learn to read each other’s different signals, says an animal expert. The question in the title is probably meant to refer to domestic cats and dogs primarily, as shown in the photo. And initially, it did get me thinking for a short while until I realised that the answer must be a …
Finding creative ways to communicate directly with our cats is essential. It is the most important way in which we can deepen the bonds between us. So the other day when read an article written by Dr. Linda Bender, DVM, I was fascinated by the way she is thinking outside the traditional box to …
Do you get into serious conversations with your cats? If so, do you ever suspect that they actually do understand what you are saying to them? I realize that some of our readers may think that these two questions I posed are completely preposterous. Nonetheless I was prompted to ask my fellow cat lovers …
An American veterinarian, Dr Weitzman, claims to have decoded the feline language (come on Dr. we know already 😉 ). Gary Weitzman believes that each cat has more than a dozen vocalisations, each of which maintains a fixed meaning for the individual cat. He set out his theories in a book called How to …
