What affects us affects cats
“Variety is the spice of life” means that doing different things, trying new experiences, or changing routines adds excitement and interest to life, much like spices enhance the flavor of food. Without variety, life can feel dull or monotonous. This saying encourages people to embrace change, explore the unfamiliar, and enjoy diversity in everyday …
The answer to the question in the title is largely common sense as the infographic indicates. The danger as I see it is that full-time indoor cats, neutered and spayed, are more likely to put on excess weight due to possible boredom and a lack of means to express natural behaviours and thereby expend …
For cat caregivers who allow their cat to go outside unsupervised – which still happens in the West despite a trend for keeping cats indoors – I have found that placing a bowl of wet food outside encourages reluctant feline feeders to eat because they feel that they have discovered a deceased prey animal …
This is a tip borne out of personal experience and as expected it applies to indoor/outdoor cats. It is sort of a personal, one-cat, study. It was conducted quite scientifically. A lot has been written about so-called ‘picky’ feeding cat companions describing the cat who leaves food in the bowl or turns up their …
Dry cat foods can be addictive to domestic cats. The manufacturers are very clever in that way. They know how to make this very artificial food highly palatable by spraying it with a nice smelling fatty solution (see below). The core material is entirely tasteless; like cardboard. Cats like fatty foods which by the …
This is a remarkable study but one that was due to happen as it is now possible to make nutritionally complete and balanced vegan pet food both for dogs and cats. Yes, put aside the notion that cats have to eat processed, sterilized, diseased meat from livestock and road kill and think vegan diet. …
For a domestic cat to become obese – and veterinarians report an obesity epidemic among the domestic cat population in the United States and the United Kingdom – they have to eat more food than they need. This has always puzzled me as domestic cats have inherited their behaviours from their wildcat cousin in …
It’s quite a catchy title, isn’t it? Pets versus jets. The Paw Post coined it. It encapsulates the discussion about whether keeping dogs is more damaging to the environment than the average private jet customer who apparently is responsible for 3.3 tons of carbon dioxide emitted into the environment per year. In contrast, the …
