I have to be tough on the way the question has been asked in the title. Firstly, all cats do not look the same. There are some cats which have been bred to extreme which I mention below. Secondly, dogs do have a wider range of appearances but they are all brothers under the …
I’m not saying that dogs are better than cats. It depends on the person and their circumstances but here are seven reasons why they are. I like cats and dogs. I have recalled these reasons spantaneously as they are fairly obvious. If you can add or subtract reasons please do so in a comment. …
Yes, it is estimated that there are more dogs than cats in the world as at 2020. In fact there are more dogs by a factor of two (100% more). The word “estimated” is important because nobody is actually counting. We are of course referring to domestic dogs and domestic cats and their feral …
No, dogs do not hear better than cats. In fact the hearing of dogs is marginally less good than the hearing of cats. There is some variability in the information that I have gleaned from my research. The biggest difference between cat and dog hearing is that cats can pick up sounds of a …
With ‘optimistic enthusiasm’ is the way Dr Bradshaw describes how dogs make contact with other dogs. We know this is because their wild forebears were highly sociable wolves. The ancestors of domestic cats were ‘solitary and territorial’. The result for modern day domestic cats is that the ‘default’ mentality for them is that they …
A recent YouGov poll has found that companion animal guardians (a.k.a. pet owners) are almost split down the middle with 51% living with a dog or dogs and 47% cohabiting with a cat or cats. An interesting finding of the poll is perhaps unsurprising when you think about it. We know that wild dogs …
There are a lot of theories on the reason for dogs eating grass. There is one thing about it which should be noted at the outset which is that people often put chemicals on their lawn to fertilise it and improve its appearance. How safe are these chemicals if you have grass eating dogs …
Genetically, domestic cats are far less variable than domestic dogs. For example, the range in the size of domestic dogs is far greater than that of domestic cats. There is an historical reason for this. Dogs have been required to carry out a wide variety of tasks in their partnership with mankind for up …
