What affects us affects cats
You might know this. The classic way of working out the human equivalent age of cats and dogs used to be to multiply their age by seven. That method is too crude by modern standards. It is far better to bracket the various ages of felines and canines and work out the human equivalent …
Staff from the Harris County Animal Cruelty Task Force have rescued three cats and 15 dogs from a home in the Pecan Park neighbourhood of Houston, Texas, USA after a neighbour reported the matter to them. “Such sad eyes. You are loved and life will be better from here on out. Donation has been …
This reminds of African wild dogs hunting down prey. It has all the flavor of that only it takes place in a home and they are all domestic animals. I don’t know whether it is a good or bad thing. Na..I do know – it’s not a good to allow this to happen if …
We don’t have the name of the animal shelter except that it is a “humane group” in the state of Louisiana. It appears that they were sending live animals to the LSU Veterinary School for testing and ultimately euthanasia but on their books they were recording these animals as “live outcomes”. In other words …
For cats it is the pleading purr and for dogs it is the puppy dog eyes but I’d argue that both are rooted in the same process: selective breeding for an attribute which pleases the human and therefore enhances survival. There is a difference though. Dogs are far more often selectively breed by breeders …
The stereotyping of men with cats as less masculine than men with dogs reflects the shallow, rather ignorant, mentality of many people, mainly other men.
It’s been reported on WHIOTV7 that the Montgomery Animal Resource Center will stop ‘providing general shelter and care for cats’. They say that the reason is that cats do badly at the shelter because of limited space for cats. They say that housing them there is detrimental to their well-being and that a large …
For me there is one major reason why cats are preferable to dogs: noise. Dogs bark and I don’t like noise and neighbours don’t like it either. Oh and they bite sometimes and a dog bite is damned dangerous. Ah..so do cats! So no real difference there. There are many other reasons and here …
