A cat’s sense of smell is far better than ours. Cats rely heavily on their sense of smell. The part of the brain called the olfactory bulbs are an important reason why a cat has such an excellent sense of smell. Relative to their size, cats have smaller olfactory bulbs than dogs but substantially larger …
Willow, a classic, brown tabby cat, warned her owner, Annemarie Cotton that she had breast cancer. Cotton is convinced that her tabby cat saved her life. “My cancer was caught in time thanks to Willow drawing my attention to my breast.” Here’s the story in some detail. Annemarie Cotton said: “Willow had always liked to …
It seems to me that there is a natural conflict of preference between the domestic cat and his human caretaker with respect to the pervading scent or smell in the air in the home. Are some of our homes too sterile from the standpoint of cat smells to be ideal places for the cat to …
People search for information about cats being aggressive after they have been anesthetised at a veterinary clinic and return home. The question is: does the anaesthetic change the cat’s personality from calm to aggressive or is something else happening such as “Feline Non-Recognition Aggression”? Something else is happening in my opinion, although anaesthetics can harm …
In general, cat owners tend to assume that cats will get along in multi-cat households. There is an assumption that, at the end of the day, all will be well and sometimes not a lot of consideration is given to the possibility of a disharmonious group of cats. This can happen despite the domestic having …
Fundamentally cats and people like the same things. Here’s a little snippet of information which tells us that we are like cats in many ways. We know that cats rub themselves against us and objects in our home to deposit scent on those objects to make the place more friendly. When they rub against us …
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This video shows the beautiful snow leopard beautifully, in the wild, on top of a high ridge in the Upper Spiti landscape in Himashal Pradesh, India. The wonderfully fit looking and athletic snow leopards that you see in the video are a mother and her two cubs who are grown up. You can see them …
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Whether a cat likes or dislikes a person is partly based on the person’s scent (body odour). I have had this idea for some time. I have no science to back it up because there is none. We know how sensitive cats are to scent. Cats almost use their noses like we use our eyes. …
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