What affects us affects cats
The question, “why don’t dogs like cats?” entered into a Google search, presupposes that dogs don’t like cats, which is not quite true because if a kitten is successfully socialised to a dog and vice-versa during the sensitive weeks when socialisation has great effect – 4-8 weeks-of-age for a kitten and 5-12 weeks for …
This will be a very short post because the reason why dogs are self-evidently much easier to train than cats can be delivered in a succinct way according to Dr Bradshaw. There are two reasons behind this well-known difference between dogs and cats. Firstly, dogs find the simple act of human attention rewarding whereas …
For the first time in 21 years, dogs overtook cats as the UK’s favourite companion animal and I blame Paris Hilton! According to the latest Pet Population Survey carried out by the Pet Food Manufacturers Association (PFMA) there are 9 million dogs in the UK in 24% of households compared to 8 million cats …
Writing in the Times newspaper today, Deborah Ross says that she doesn’t even consider her dog as a pet (implying she considers her dog as something much more important). She then goes on to say: “A goldfish, yes; that’s a pet. A rabbit is a pet. A cat is a pet. A hamster? Good …
It has been a source of fascination for a long time as to why people look like their dogs. However, I don’t think we ever read about cat owners looking like their cats. The main reason why people actually do sometimes look like they’re dogs is because there are far more dog breeds than …
Having lived with cats for 40 years now, there is no comparison to living with dogs as we did in our younger days and I would never want to do that again. Cats are such very peaceful creatures, also so very fascinating, I could just sit all day and watch our two and never …
3-month-old babies can distinguish between cats and dogs by looking at the silhouette of the head of a cat and dog. I’m not sure how useful this information is to the general population of people but nonetheless it is quite interesting. A study1 concluded that although very young babies can distinguish between cats and …
“Dogs have masters; cats have staff” is a thought provoking phrase with which all cat lovers are familiar. In fact, this phrase is so accurate that it makes me believe that cat people are smarter than those who hang out primarily with dogs. The word “master” is frequently used to describe someone who is …
