What affects us affects cats
My cat Gabriel is a fast and surgically efficient eater of prey. I watched him do it. He brought in another mouse. He must have found a nest of them and virtually wiped them out of existence. This time he brought the mouse into the living room. It was dead. He immediately ate it. …
The funniest cat pictures are the ones which are based on truths about domestic cat behaviour. They reveal something about cat behaviour. Here is a nice selection of a dozen pics. I have added a short commentary on how I see the truth behind the picture. Insects are one of the prey items of …
Every so often we see a cat news story about a “kleptomaniac cat”. There is one doing the rounds at the moment. It concerns a policeman’s cat, ironically, who has been dubbed a cat burglar. Tigger “steals” everything and anything such as trash, toys and even a bag of marijuana. Other cats have stolen …
I’ll keep this fairly short because I am not too sure how relevant it is to the cat/bird debate. There are two facts that relate to it which might interest some people. It concerns America because it concerns the coyote. The coyote is an effective predator of outside cats. It is a reason why …
Are UK cat owners really in denial about the level of killings by their cat? This is the conclusion of a recent study. It discovered that 60% of owners disagreed that domestic cats were harming wildlife while 13% strongly disagreed. I am surprised that the cat owning participants disagreed because often they won’t know …
Overview: Cats treat cat toys as prey. This is what makes them play. The more a toy looks and behaves like real prey the less bored a cat will become. Toys that gradually disintegrate (die) are more likely to motivate a cat to persist and therefore become less bored….. Domestic cats are renowned for …
Proof if it were needed that cats are amazingly athletic and natural acrobats (get the pun!). One little danger here is that bats are the main source of rabies in the USA so was it wise to expect or hope that his cat would catch this bat? Whatever, the cat took very little time …
The way jaguars fish may shed some light on why domestic cats mess around with water. Jaguars feed on a wide range of prey including fish. Turtles are an important part of their diet. The jaguar’s fishing method has been discussed and it seems that there have been disputes over it. Indians sharing the …
