Alex Sliwa is the go-to man on the hunting activities of this highly successful, small wild cat species. We are told that pretty well everything we know about this cat species comes from Alex Sliwa and his detailed observations. I’m picking out some of the salient points as I see them. We know, that …
We are so used to seeing our domestic cats in our homes, fitting in with the human lifestyle, it might be useful to remind ourselves what a male domestic cat would do if given complete freedom. If they lived without compromise. And I do believe that domestic cats compromise because they are shoehorned into …
Here are 12 facts about the digitigrade foot posture of cats. Yes, most cat owners realise that their cats walk on their toes but if you were unsure, now you know 😃. There are three categories of foot posture (item 8 below). When cats walk, they have a direct register cat gait – the …
Here are 18 facts about the hunting technique and behaviour of the ocelot. I start with some background information to set the scene and the facts are presented in bullet fashion. The ocelot, throughout a large part of its territory (home range), shares its territory with the jaguar, puma, margay, jaguarundi and oncilla. The …
Technically yes, all domestic cats are hunters but it is quite clear that many domestic cats really don’t have an urge to hunt as one might expect although they might be curious about the presence of a mouse in the home. I, myself, have lived with a female cat who only caught one mouse …
Domestic and stray cats can be reverential towards rats nowadays. What I mean is they back off and are fundamentally, at least, slightly frightened of rats and what they might do to them in terms of injuries. The first video we see appears to show a domestic cat batting a rat over the head …
“How to entertain a cat?” is a question that we wouldn’t need to ask in a better world for domestic cats as they don’t need entertaining normally. They only need entertaining when then can’t entertain themselves. And cats entertain themselves through their natural behavior of hunting and stalking. If we take that prospect away …
The Fierce Black-footed cat – is it? Yes, it definitely is. I was casually reading the March/April 2010 edition of the Feline Conservation Federation magazine and happened upon the article of Robert Johnson about tracking the Black-footed cat. Yes, this article has been checked and republished 12 years later. He was speaking to Beryl …
