What affects us affects cats
The debate over the number of birds killed by cats has grown stronger over the past few decades, especially since the internet came into play. Information once found only in magazines or periodicals can now be read with the click of a mouse, and anyone out there with a computer can either read up …
This is a cats versus bananas contest. The bananas win. It seems to me that domestic cats aren’t very good at distinguishing between living and non-living objects using their eyesight based in this well produced, amusing video. I enjoyed it. The cats don’t know whether the banana or banana skin is dangerous. They …
Cats do genuinely play with prey. They are not torturing it. Neither are they are protecting themselves and trying to stun their prey. They are simply enjoying playing with the mouse or whatever the prey item happens to be. The general feeling is – and experts endorse this – that domestic cats appear to …
A rare camera trap video of an African golden cat hunting and attacking a small monkey on the ground in a Ugandan park. This is a rare bit of vide footage of the highly elusive African golden cat, a small-medium sized wild cat species, hunting red colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, Uganda. The …
My cat loves the laser pointer and can’t get enough of it which has made me reassess how good this cat toy is. Yep, it’s Gabriel again and he is fascinated by a newly discovered laser pointer (I was given it as a present over Christmas). He is so fascinated by it I think …
Perhaps, the jury is out on the reason why hunting domestic cats sometimes bring half-alive prey back to their caretaker/owner’s home. If we are to find the answer in wild cat behavior, the scenario of our family home and an outdoor/indoor, wandering cat is only replicated in one instance, namely when the wild cat …
Almost all domestic cats rake their toys (their “prey”) with their hind feet. They grab the toy with in their forelegs and paws and bite it while simultaneously raking the toy with their hind claws. The addition of raking with hind claws doesn’t occur every time but frequently. It is something that cats do …
Thirty-four percent of British gardeners hate cats. The same percentage of gardeners hate aphids (plant lice). This is one of the findings, and an unsurprising one, from a survey conducted by the BBC Gardeners World Magazine. I say it is unsurprising because gardeners hate anything that they believe will spoil the appearance of their …
