A Michael Broad Blog
It is Will Atherton who coins the phrase ‘Leadership is Love’ on his TikTok channel. He is a dog trainer and behaviourist. He correctly says that the most dangerous dog is not a specific breed but the dog without an effective leader and one that is not trained. This undermines (correctly) the concept that …
Just prepared this infographic about domestic cats getting vitamin D from sunlight – or not! There is a lot of misinformation (I believe) on the internet on this topic from websites which has fed through to the AI chatbots which ‘scrape’ the internet for information. If the websites are incorrect, the AI chatbots are …
Dr Morris, Britain’s famous zoologist, author and artist provided us with a very straightforward explanation on why cats have nine lives in 1986, and here it is in an infographic. The only weakness in the explanation is that no one has the faintest idea what a ‘trinity of trinities’ is. (❁´◡`❁). Well they try …
The answer to the question in the title is in the infographic. It is that predation behaviour is, as expected, inherited but it needs to be polished up with some training from their mother and a kitten’s keen observational skills and ability to learn from watching. It is how they learn to open doors …
Although the idiom has been explained a million times, I don’t think there are many infographics on this so here is one that I have just prepared. ‘Idiom’ – a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ). There …
This is an attempt to summarise in an infographic what PETA stands for based on their literature given to me. I wholly support PETA. I believe that there are a lot of misconceptions expressed on the internet about PETA by well-intentioned people who may have got the wrong end of the stick. And I …
The story behind this form of feline behavior is that we share it. While we scratch our heads or bite our nails when we are unsure about something, cats lick their noses. I guess that if we had the kind of nose cats have, we’d do the same thing. 😎 In fact, we do …
I have converted a text article reporting on this study by researchers from the universities of Kentucky and California (published in The Journal of Neuroscience) into an infographic so that it can be read very quickly without the need to wade through technical terminology. The basic finding probably confirms what many dog owners and …
