What affects us affects cats
The result of my research indicates to me that there is a tendency for domestic cats to change their behaviour and become more loving or clingy towards the woman who is their owner when that woman is pregnant. That’s the general trend that I get in my research from reading all of the forum …
The answer to this question is actually straightforward but the first point to make is that domestic cats do not find all smelly stuff interesting (pretty obvious I know). So the question is actually poorly formulated. Indeed, cats recoil from a lot of smelly objects. These are often household chemicals of some sort, perhaps …
A lot has been written about the domestic cat’s dependence on scent. They depend upon it in so many aspects of their lives. It is crucially important to them. They love the scent of their human guardians. The bedroom is a “scent soaker” according to Jackson Galaxy. He means that the bedroom is dripping …
I guess we are discussing domestic cats. I ask because the title was created by Google based on real searches. In my opinion it is not a great idea to try and diagnose a domestic cat’s health from the warmth and dryness of their nose leather. It is a rather vague way to do …
This is a classic example of a domestic cat using her vomeronasal organ (‘VNO’ also called the Jacobson’s organ) to smell and analyse the odours coming off her owner’s foot. She also licks the foot for taste. The face that the cat pulls gives us the impression that she is unimpressed but in fact …
Why do cats taste the air? This is a question asked on the Internet and it is slightly misleading because although it looks like cats sometimes taste the air they are actually smelling an odour in a very accurate way. When cats look like they are tasting the air they are, in fact, inhaling …
This video is not hugely significant in the grand scheme of domestic cat life on the planet but it is interesting to see a blind domestic cat using his nose to track down food. He scans from left to right as if he is a blind person using a blind person’s white cane. Blind …
We know about feline facial pheromones which are facial secretions. The chemical components of these pheromones have been analysed. They are almost entirely made up of ‘acids’ interestingly. There are five facial pheromones. Chemical components of the feline facial secretions: F1 – Oleic acid, caproic acid, trimethylamine, 5-aminovaleric acid, n-butyric acid, a-methylbutyric acid F2 …
