caregiver's wellbeing / human behavior / human health / Human to cat relationship
August 30, 2023
This is written in good faith with the desire to help. I am not judging or criticising anyone. We are all human. I battle daily to maintain a healthy BMI (currently 20.8). This is...
caregiver's wellbeing / human behavior / human health / Human to cat relationship
August 25, 2023
This is another article about cat caregiver health. It is looking at the world of cats from the opposite direction by which I mean from the cat’s perspective. They want their caregiver to be...
anxiety-reducing products / caregiver's wellbeing / Cat Behavior / cat emotions / Cat Products / cost of cat caregiving / happy cat / Human to cat relationship / interaction with owner / unhappy cat
July 31, 2023
I am running two campaigns at the moment and they overlap. One is to promote domestic cat happiness. Sounds childish almost but it’s not. It’s about remembering our responsibilities towards our cat companions. After...
Cat News / human behavior / human health / Human to cat relationship / ownership / study
July 26, 2023
I am currently going through a phase where I am writing about the health of the cat caregiver. It is looking at cat caregiving from the perspective of the cat. It’s important, in my...
caregiver's wellbeing / elderly people health benefits / human behavior / human health / Human to cat relationship / infographic / irresponsible cat ownership / ownership / Pictures of Cats
July 25, 2023
I found the headline compelling. So neat and well packaged. Almost utopian. But it is common sense really as so much of good living is. What’s it got to do with cats you ask?!...
Cat Health / health insurance / health screening / mental health / pet health insurance / Veterinarians
July 12, 2023
A cursory investigation will tell you that dogs are taken to the vets much more than cats and cats are not taken to the vets enough. Cat owners resist taking their cat to the...
November 3, 2022
Starting with the presumption that the scratch and bite are of about equal severity, to answer the question the title I think we have to look at two things: The frequency with which bacteria...
July 19, 2022
In this article I am focusing on the human rather than the cat. When a cat caregiver feels better, they are going to be a better cat caregiver. When a cat caregiver is irritable...
March 22, 2021
There is a story today from Massachusetts, USA which convinces me that if a person wants to keep a large number of cats in their home a license should be mandatory. I have set...
November 2, 2020
There is a perception among some people that stray cats are diseased and can transmit infections to people. I’m reminded of this by a woman in Hong Kong, Icy Song, who runs into stray...
October 21, 2020
NEWS AND OPINION: It is a time to praise the domestic cat for comforting vulnerable people who during extensive coronavirus pandemic lockdowns have been left isolated through no fault of their own. This is...
October 7, 2020
This is a recently published study on how prevalent the disease called toxoplasmosis is in Korean cats and dogs. It appears to have been carried out because of an outbreak of human toxoplasmosis which...
July 24, 2018
Are cat and dog owners healthier than others? The conclusion of a 42,000 people survey in California 1 is that ‘there is no evidence of a positive impact of pet ownership per se on...
June 10, 2017
People ask: are feral cats a health hazard? I can answer the question in two ways. I can take a scientific approach which I do later on in this article but initially I will...
May 21, 2017
A study published on the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes Of Health website has come to the conclusion that there is a link between Toxoplasma gondii and prostate cancer. More particularly, the...
