NEWS AND VIEWS-UK: This is another episode in an ongoing trend concerning students – I believe to be relatively young students – who want to self-identify as animals and to want to be addressed as such to the point where one student at one secondary school in the UK answered questions in class by meowing …
UK students are allowed to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs! Read More »
I am going to go against the grain here and stick my neck out. It is the wrong starting point to ask if there are some dog breeds that are good with cats. It is branding dog breeds as having one character that is favorable to the cat-dog relationship. I am not saving that people …
In selecting a cat to adopt your main or sole criteria might be easy maintenance! ? A fair point. The question is ‘which cat?’ I guess this means either an individual cat or a type of cat or a breed of cat. The answer is clear to me. The cat which is easiest to maintain …
The first point to make is that we are discussing neutered male cats and spayed female cats. That has to be a basic criteria in this discussion. There’s no point comparing unsterilised male cats against spayed female cats for instance. It is just not a comparison that makes sense. I can answer the second part …
Are male cats more affectionate with humans and other cats than females? Read More »
How to sex kittens? It can be tricky. Sexing Kittens or indeed cats is a problem for breeders (sometimes) and certainly for people not intimately involved in the cat world. This article sets out to demystify it. That, anyway, is the intention. The information mainly comes from cat breeders, the best source for this kind …
This couple of cats are profoundly affectionate towards each other. They are glued together, moving in unison, their tails intertwined as they stroll along. Beautiful to see. You will not see a more profound sign of affection between domestic cat then you see in this video from TikTok. They move as one. Their tails crossover …
Two cats glued together with tails crossed in deep affection when strolling along Read More »
Can cats be hermaphrodite? Yes, there is one for adoption at Caldwell! At March 16th 2021 a hermaphrodite cat whose name is Jessie is up for adoption from the West Valley Humane Society in Caldwell. So domestic cats can be hermaphrodite because they are born with male and female reproductive organs. They are very rare …
Google is asked by Internet users to answer the question in the title. The fact of the matter is that the question shouldn’t be asked in the first place. This is because neither the female nor the male is better than the other in an absolute sense. Whether a person prefers a female or a …
UK: A cat rescue, Bradford Cat Watch Rescue, described one of their cats, Dixie, as ‘gender neutral’ because she/he is an hermaphrodite (they think). A retired crane driver, Jack Rawcliffe said that it was wrong to call Dixie gender neutral. She should be called an hermaphrodite. Jack is a client of this rescue. “The vets …
We know that nearly all tortoiseshell cats are female. Dr Morris says that it has been calculated that about one in 200 tortoiseshell cats are males but I’ve also read that one in 3000 is the correct percentage. Let’s say that they are rare. However, Dr Morris makes the interesting point that all tortoiseshell cats …
People ask whether cats can be gay. I think it’s a silly question. It creates a complication where one doesn’t exist. If you’re going to try and answer the question logically you have to start off with a definition of homosexuality which is “sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex”. Note the word “people”. …
Garfield is a well-known cartoon cat. The guys who edit Wikipedia have been arguing over whether Garfield is male or female. There was a battle going on with constant edits to change the cat’s sex. The argument has been resolved. For me, they were missing the point although I see why the argument started. Garfield …
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No. People ask, “are tabby cats male?”. They should ask “are red tabby cats male?”. To which the answer is: there are more male red tabby cats than female tabbies. To an informed cat owner or someone who knows cats the question in the title sounds a bit silly. But we must be sympathetic towards, …
Is this a photo of a female cat? Sexing kittens can be tricky, I think. I have looked at a ton of images and read the books and then scratched my head and bitten my fingernails 😉 . Below is a picture of the rear end of a female cat. Below the image are two …
About 0.033% of calico cats are male, we are told. I am not sure how accurate this figure is. Represented a different way it is one male calico cat for every 3000 female calico cats. In fact, as their existence is theoretically impossible there has to be a genetic anomaly for a male cat to …
