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If you are a cat guardian and have a domestic cat companion you will know what snow leopard cubs do for fun. Snow leopard kittens and young adults play with each other and objects in exactly the same way that domestic cat’s do. Play is centred around hunting in one form or another but …
The average length of the domestic cat’s tail is 10 inches or 25 centimetres. It is essential to specify the cat species because they vary enormously in length depending on the species. I am assuming that the question relates to domestic cats. I think that you’ll find some variations to the answer on the …
Of course cats’s tails vary in length depending on the size of the cat and some cat breeds are not meant to have conventional tails while some wild cat species have exceptional tails. However, you can generalise about the length of cats’ tails which is what the title to this articles seeks to do. …
Cute video. The adult cat is looking up at a person who is encouraging the cat to believe that she is going to receive someting nice which is why she wags her tail side to side. That’s my interpretation and a bit of a guess. It does not really matter though because the fun …
In a previous post, some time ago, I explained why snow leopards have very long tails and this answer is along similar lines. Mel and Fiona Sunquist in their book Wild Cats Of The World describe the leopard’s tail as: “The long, thin tail is about 60 to 75 percent of the head and …
Why do cats chase their tails? The answer is obvious but I’ll answer the question because someone’s asked it. They chase their tails to play. It is just another version of play hunting. All cat games are based on the same feline trait and all cat toys rely on this behavior. Aware it is …
Cats owners want to know what their domestic cat’s tail movements and positions mean. I thought I had done a page on this but apparently not so here it is. There are also two large links to cat tail types and an article about cat tail anatomy. The tail is a ‘balancing organ‘. It …
Cat tails are quite complicated anatomically. There are a lot of moving parts. There are many variants of the cat tail. The tail is a very useful and important part of the cat’s anatomy.
