A Michael Broad Blog
The strange and exotic big cat hybrids such as the tigon and liger, which fascinate many people, may be creating unforeseen emotional issues in their female parent. Until this article I have only discussed the appearance of hybrid big cats such as the tigon (male tiger x female lion) and liger (male lion x …
Nothing much to say here except that it looks like this cute kitten is copying her mother’s yawn and if so why? Rather than following her mother’s behaviour it may be that she has been encouraged to yawn when watching her mother. Yawns are contagious as humans know. I prefer the first assessment. I …
Grandpa Mason as he was affectionately known, was a geriatric former feral cat with terminal kidney disease. He was not so keen on people but he loved kittens. He lived at Tiny Kittens a rescue group in Langley, Vancouver, Canada and was the oldest feral cat that they’d seen. The short video of Grandpa …
Do male cats recognise their own kittens? I am referring to domestic cats because I’m sure the question is about domestic cats. It’s impossible to find a clean and direct answer to the question and therefore it is a good question. I think, however, that I have found the answer indirectly. Let us first …
I don’t need words for this one. It is all in the video. It’s nice to see this grumpy, geriatric male feral cat warm up emotionally when he found himself around some orphaned domestic kittens. Both get a lot out of the relationship. Grumpy grandpa soften and became excited to play with the kittens …
Thinking about it, there are probably at least three reasons why a female cat looks after the kittens of another female. We see this on the Internet quite often. Accidental The first reason is that it could be accidental that one female cat looks after the kittens of another female cat. It may be …
Mother moves her kittens to a new nest. Why? It usually happens when the kittens are between 30 and 40 days old. We have all see it; mother picks up each kitten by the scruff of their necks and purposefully carries them off to a fresh location. In the video she takes them to …
Paris Zarcilla is a filmmaker living in East London. One day he found a cat under his bed. She had just given birth to a litter of kittens. It’s changed Paris’s life and his Twitter feed! Paris is completely enamoured by becoming an overnight father. He has no idea where the cat came from …
