The following wild cats species live in India: Leopard Asiatic golden cat Caracal Clouded leopard Fishing cat Jungle cat Leopard cat Lion Eurasian lynx Pallas’s cat Marbled cat Rusty-spotted cat Bengal Tiger Each of the above species are discussed in … Continue reading →
India’s Project Tiger is unsuccessful. When Project Tiger was set up in April 1973. Indira Gandhi was interested in wildlife and had spoken about conservation some 4 years earlier in a speech to the IUCN General Assembly in Delhi in … Continue reading →
In India you might happen upon a meal called cat biryani. In the UK you can buy many prepared meals from supermarkets such as chicken biryani designed for human consumption. I had never heard of cat biryani until now. I … Continue reading →
Once they have found him, a man-eating lion living in the north-west of India in the Gir National Park will be spared and placed in a zoo instead of being shot. I like that. It is the kind of attitude … Continue reading →
What’s it like to import and then export two Maine Coon cats into and out of Mumbai, India? Also what is it like for a Maine Coon cat to live in Mumbai? We can get a feel for these things … Continue reading →
Is it true that Indian families rarely have domestic cats? The question was asked by a man living in Canada who travels a lot to India. His question was based upon his observations. I asked a similar question several years … Continue reading →
Is it possible for a person without tools or a firearm to harass a jaguar, the world’s third largest cat with the strongest bite of all the cats? This is a slightly bizarre story from Hyderabad, India. A stockbroker allegedly … Continue reading →
An essay on the cat in Punjabi (Indian version of Punjabi – reading left to right). This is one of a series of similar essays. The idea is to try and communicate with people in places far away from Europe … Continue reading →
Hundreds of villagers are being forced out of their homes in central India to make way for a new Asiatic lion sanctuary in an area where the animals were hunted to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century. The … Continue reading →
By Rudolph Furtado (Mumbai, India) For all cat owners here is the account of my 5 year old tomcat Matata almost succumbing to “Shampoo poisoning“. On Friday (25-7-2014) I gave tomcat Matata an anti-flea shampoo bath using “Bayo Pet Brand … Continue reading →
