A Michael Broad Blog
Do kleptocats tells us something about cat behaviour and the instinctive drives within our domestic cats? Dusty is an American kleptocat and Norris is an English kleptocat. Norris lives in Bristol, England. He is a two year old tabby. He roams the Bristol suburb, Bedminster, where he lives and “steals” anything and everything from …
Once again a newspaper has misreported a study on cat predation that is misleading in itself. It is double trouble and unfair on the domestic cat. I have to at least report this, briefly. This time it is the Times newspaper of June 29th 2013. The article was written by Toom Whipple and Oliver …
People who don’t like cats criticise the species for being nasty and mean because they play with their prey, which is usually a mouse. Harrison Weir, the founder of the cat fancy, calls this “The Cat as a Tormentor”. He quotes Shakespeare, in his poem “The Rape of Lucrece”, saying: “Yet foul night-waking cat, …
Surplus killing is where an animal kills prey that is not immediately used as food. Surplus killing is something that upsets some people and it is used by farmers as a reason to kill wild cats that attack livestock. It does look like crazed, wanton and unjustified killing for the fun of it. Surplus …
Wild Logic, Instinctive Killing, Instinctive Caring by Michael This is a video that Dorothy found for me. It shows what I have referred to a wild logic. The leopard instinctively kills prey to survive and in this case the leopard attacks a Baboon, which is also a foe. The leopard is young and inexperienced. …
by Michael (London) Reproduced under creative commons copyright Sean Dreilinger Domestic cat hunting is rarely on my cat’s agenda. This is for three reasons. First she is overweight. Second she is old. Third there’s not much to hunt around here. In the sterilized world of clean suburban living the rodent population is reduced. When …
I have only today heard about the cat bib. It shows you how big the internet is. The “cat bib” is a device that stops the domestic cat catching birds and other species of animal, and killing them. It is a triangular shaped piece of soft, washable material that hangs from the cat’s collar. …
