What affects us affects cats
These are the ideas of the well-known Jackson Galaxy (JG) on this tricky subject. I am sure a lot of cat guardians struggle with this problem; how to sleep through the night without being woken by their cat. JG says that domestic cats are not nocturnal. He’s right. Domestic cats are mainly crepuscular – …
Bobcats are primarily crepuscular. In other words they are most active in the few hours before and after sunset and sunrise. This form of activity does not apply to all bobcats all the time. There are exceptions. Some studies have found that bobcats are primarily nocturnal. Other reports have stated that they may be …
The South Essex Wildlife Hospital have presented, online, a grisly photograph of birds killed, it is implied, by domestic cats. The photograph is published on this page. What they say, and the photograph that they have published, has sparked off, yet again, that intractable and unsolvable debate about (a) how much wildlife (particularly birds) …
I can’t remember the last time I really had a good night’s sleep. It seems that the older I get, the more that sleep eludes me. To make matters even worse, there are those times – as a result of my sleep deprivation – that my usual even-tempered demeanor can, without warning, turn me …
Cats like to wake us up in the morning for breakfast. I suppose a cat wakes up earlier than us; it seems that way anyway. It is probably because they are crepuscular and like to be active at dawn and dusk. So your cat wants to wake you up at about 4 am. How …
Photo by Tscherno (Flickr) The answer is no but their ability to see colour is limited. The cat’s retina is made up of two types of light sensitive cells; rods and cones. The rods enable the cat to see black, white and shades of grey. The cones provide the color vision. There are many …
