What affects us affects cats
A least once and perhaps twice in a 24-hour period is the answer. It’s likely be more if they have mild diarrhoea. Cats are often active at night and therefore I am interpreting ‘a day’ as meaning 24 hours not just daylight hours. A veterinarian would say that ‘most cats have one or two …
I’m reminded by a story from California that it is the foul ammonia smell emanating from homes in which there are too many cats which always exposes these homes to the authorities because at the end of the day a neighbour complains as the smells constantly waft into their home. They might accept it …
The question in the title is not strictly accurate because it implies that domestic cats always bury their waste and they don’t. By waste the questioner must mean faeces and urine. Sometimes both these waste products are used to mark territory and when they are used for this purpose they are not buried because …
Middening in cats is the depositing of faeces in prominent places as an alternative form of scent marking. The others are urine spraying, squat marking with urine (to be distingusihed from cystitis) and scratching. Scratching leaves both a visual signal because the surface is damaged and an olfactory message because there are scent glands …
As someone said, it is the little things that make the world go round and in this case put a little smile our face. SOME MORE ON CAT POOP!
Joe Rogan has complained bitterly on his Instagram page about stray cats at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) shitting and pissing all over the sunroof of his truck which he parked at the airport for 11 days while he was away on holiday in Europe. His posting on his Instagram account made headlines. It’s …
This is a cute little story which really could be told in one sentence and one photo but I have expanded on it as this form of cat behaviour is interesting. The cat’s owner (guardian) accidentally closed the doorway which provided access to her cat’s litter tray. Just outside the closed door was a …
This is a question about “inappropriate elimination”. That’s a euphemism because from the cat’s perspective the elimination is appropriate because he or she is probably anxious, fearful and stressed because of a specific reason. Anxiety and fear are often the main factors driving cats to defecate indoors outside the litter tray. Dr Bradshaw in …
