human behavior

Don't let anxiety and stress negatively impact the relationship with your cat

3 strikes and you are out! Stay calm around your cat.

The planet has become more difficult to live on! We have the ghastly illegal invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s constant threats of nuclear war. That alone is enough to make billions of people anxious. He is a madman who could push the little red button it seems to me. He is also a psychopath with …

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Wearing wellies to protect one's legs against your cat's play attack

Happy cat owner tip 1: wearing wellies!

This looks a bit strange – very strange perhaps – but effective. The idea comes from Rebecca Watson in her book The Cat Expert. I like the idea if you have a problem with your kitten or cat attacking your lower leg and/or ankles a lot. Wearing wellies protects them until they get out of …

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Cats have not yet sussed out human manipulations of human objects

Domestic cats haven’t yet worked out many aspects of human activity

This is an interesting illustration from Dr John Bradshaw’s book Cat Sense (which you can download to Kindle by the way which allows you to search for keywords) on the topic of how well or not so well domestic cats understand what is going on around them in the human world. As cat owners, I …

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Kids identifying as cats

Woke movement softens school rules on distracting students self-identifying as cats

Myrie on TikTok is a smart cookie. I have never seen her before but I was rummaging around the internet looking for a follow up on the current story of young female students self-identifying as cats. I want to know what’s behind it. Is this a genuine mental health problem or kids having some fun …

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Titanic and Titan. This image is for illustrative purposes only

3 reasons why visiting the Titanic was wrong

NEWS AND OPINION: A thread runs through the Titanic saga all way from the original disaster when the liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg to the present catastrophe. The wife of the deep-sea exploration boss, Stockton Rush, 61, who managed OceanGate Expeditions which owned Titan the five-passenger submersible, is the great-great granddaughter of …

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Allergens and allergies

Increase in human allergies inc. asthma – reason? – children allergic to cats – spread of cat/dog allergen – environment – lifestyle

A Guardian article online interests me because an allergy to cats affects around 10% of people (is this an underestimate?). The conclusion of the Guardian article is that more and more of us are suffering from allergies. Medicines are struggling to keep up. Theresa MacPhail completed a monumental task of looking at the development of …

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Xu Zhi Hui

Man who put his cat in a blender video jumped

This is a disturbing and confusing story but I have gradually unravelled it since posting this page. And the wording of the title I have used for this post is confusing as well. It is taken from Twitter. Please read the whole page as the end is important – I tracked down the man involved. …

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Unconscious bias against animals including lions

Laughing and mocking a sentient being who is in prison for doing nothing wrong

Like a lot of people, I hate to see this sort of video. It is not massively shocking as Internet videos go. It is a bit of fun or that’s what it looks like. It’s the story behind the video which is important. It underpins the generally poor relationship between humankind and iconic wild species …

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Deterring cats from gardens means making the garden an unpleasant place to be in

There is one effective way to deter cats from gardens

A lot has been written on the topic of deterring free-roaming domestic cats from neighbours’ gardens. I cover a recent discussion using plants in the EXPRESS newspaper below but first I would like to discuss this single effective way to deter cats from gardens. I’m going to start with the underlying reason why this method …

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Pigs are sophisticated and smart

Socially intelligent and emotionally sensitive pigs are relentlessly abused at factory farms

For me, and for many thousands of others, the relentless and heartless abuse of pigs throughout their lives is baffling and depressing. How can humankind be so heartless and ignorant? Well, we can and often are. Look at the pathetic ignorance and selfish behaviour behind global warming. Humankind in 2022 does not give a damn …

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Greta Thunberg in the words she has used about the need to change society and the capitalist model

Greta Thunberg calls for a system-wide transformation to society to stop global warming

This topic is so big that it supersedes everything else including any discussions on cats. Climate change affects everybody and everything to the point where discussions about cat breeds and cat behaviour become meaningless. Greta Thunberg is expanding her campaigning to what she sees as the root cause of climate change; humankind’s capitalist system, the …

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