How to help your cat lose weight

Fat cat dreams of tuna soup

A lot has been written on how to help your cat lose weight. You can overcomplicate it or you can keep it simple. I believe in the simple approach because there’s two ways any living creature can lose weight: you can burn more energy i.e. calories and/or you can ingest less calories. To put …

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Great find in Egypt of cat mummies. How did the cats die?

At the date of this post, Egyptian egyptologists are ecstatic at the recent discovery of a cache of 75 wooden and bronze statues and five lion cub mummies at the Saqqara necropolis near the famous Giza pyramids in Cairo. They were found at the foot of the Bastet Temple where cats were worshipped in …

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Domestic cats of more neurotic owners may be more likely to be overweight (and more)

Neurotic cat owners are less good?

Neurotic people who own cats come out badly in a studyA about the personality of cat owners and how it affects the well-being of their cats. The immediate observation by this study is that cat ‘ownership’ parallels the parent-child relationship. Where a mother of a child is neurotic there is a real link between …

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USA: new federal law criminalizing an intentional act of animal crushing

Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act — the PACT Act

Behind this new federal Act which has been passed by the Senate and which President Trump is expected to sign into law, there is a rather tortuous backstory which is highly confusing. I’m not sure I want to go into the legal complexities of this but let’s just say that there have been earlier …

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City in Florida stops funding TNR program with ‘holes in it’

Pretty and well fed feral cats

Port Orange, Florida: The mayor says that city funded TNR in Port Orange, which started in 2012, is not working while those involved in it say it is and neighbouring TNR programs in Deltona and Daytona Beach are successful and chugging along. “We’re spending a lot of money with a program that has some …

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Warning sign in front garden tells drivers to slow down as cat might cross the road

Warning sign to car drivers to slow down as cat crossing the road

“Warning Cats Crossing Please Drive Slowly” I approve of the actions of Anne Lowe, who put up a nice clear sign in her front garden, which you can see in the photograph above. It’s a warning to drivers to slow down because her cat might be crossing the road. I think vehicle speed is …

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Can cats sense when something is wrong?

Cat looking in a concerned way.

Can cats sense when something is wrong? I’ll refer to my personal experiences and those of Jackson Galaxy to answer the question. When something is wrong in our world it affects us emotionally which usually results in our body language reflecting how we feel. Cats can pick up on our emotions through various ways …

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