What affects us affects cats
I am running two campaigns at the moment and they overlap. One is to promote domestic cat happiness. Sounds childish almost but it’s not. It’s about remembering our responsibilities towards our cat companions. After providing security, warmth and sustenance it is down to cat caregivers to make their cat happy! Of course, the owner …
People ask if big cats like boxes. They are referring to the large wild cats normally the lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar. You don’t have to look very hard to find pictures of big cats enjoying snoozing, sleeping and generally messing around in boxes. Yes, they like boxes. Although we are always referring to …
Zen: a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. Zen creates peacefulness and calm and comes from the Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism which emphasises the value of meditation and intuition rather than ritual worship and study of scriptures! There is an enormous amount …
In general, domestic cats love boxes. All domestic cats have the potential to love them. And if they don’t love boxes, they like to squeeze themselves into tight spaces for a snooze such as a flowerpot. The celebrity cat Maru is the world’s leader of box-loving cats. This desire is so strong that cats …
Don’t waste your money on commercially manufactured cat toys even if they make nice looking Christmas presents. Take something like a cardboard box that was packaging for your new 42 inch flat-screen television, which would normally be recycled, cut some circular holes in it and hours of pleasure await the little fella. We all …
I have been a bit presumptuous in describing this cat as a Ragdoll but she does look like one. It is quite a cute picture of a cat which is suitable for this website which discusses anything and everything about all kinds of cats, wild and domestic. The picture is a reminder that domestic …
It is probable that some cats like to squeeze themselves into glass bowls of various descriptions because they like the feeling of security it gives by pressing onto the sides of their body. It it almost as if they are returning to their mother’s womb. They can also comfortably look out! It has gone …
Do you remember that cats like to be in boxes as they feel more secure. Well there are variations on this theme as this very cosy and comfortable ginger tabby demonstrates. I added the genuine loaf to the image for comparison. Cats in boxes: Study shows that cats given boxes are less stressed
