What affects us affects cats
You have to differentiate between (1) wild cats and (2) domestic, stray and feral cats. I will deal with (2) first. Domestic, stray and feral cats I’d predict that if there were no cats whatsoever the change in the world by there being no domestic, stray and feral cats would be larger than if …
Domestic cats become sexually active when they are nearly 12-months-of-age. However, it varies. For males the youngest sexually mature age is, unusually, six months. Some are sexually mature at 8 months but typically it is between 11-12 months. It may be longer for stray cats at 15-18 months because they are given less chance …
A little story may help to answer the question in the title. My mother owned a ginger cat. At about three years of age he left his home and went to live on the golf course opposite. Despite my mother’s best efforts he never returned until he was about 15 years of age when …
Aberdeen in South Dakota, USA have an animal shelter. A resident in Aberdeen enquired about their procedures on trapping cats. Her enquiry was prompted by concerns over welfare. The lady, Talese Aucoin, had seen a photograph of a cat in a wild animal cage at the Aberdeen Animal Shelter. She was reassured that this …
We are getting mixed up between community cats, stray cats, time share cats and feral cats. The people who compile the statistics are bundling together community cats and feral cats. The two are very different but it is probably impossible to separate them because there is a transition from one to the other. Are …
Introduction History Description DistributionBehavior Social Organisation Reproduction and Development Socialisation Introduction On this page I look at domestic cats from a different perspective, not as a breed of purebred cat or as a random bred cat but as a domesticated wild cat. It is a look at this species of animal from a more scientific …
