Tiny kitten rescued just in time is showered with family love

Tiny kitten rescue just in time is showered with family love

This tiny kitten was rescued just in time and is now showered with family love. A wonderful journey from near death to a life brimming with love. He is best buddies with the huge, lovable family dog who took to the ginger tabby kitten immediately. The kitten’s smell fascinates him. The kitten is likely …

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Interspecies friendships are charming and instructive. Infographic.

Interspecies friendships are charming and instructive

Well, here is another infographic by me on an important topic: interspecies friendships. Because we tend to anthropomorphise our cats and dogs, we sometimes forget that we are in an interspecies friendship; an incredibly successful one but with some dire failures, sadly, due to human error. We can do better. When we look at …

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Pretty fantasy picture of a deer licking a domestic cat

Picture of a deer licking a domestic cat as they became impromptu friends

This is a free-to-use fictional picture of a deer licking (cleaning) a domestic cat in a pretty garden surrounded by colourful flowers. Despite being a fantasy image, it is very much based in the real world. Wild deer can and do make impromptu friends with domestic cats who are allowed outside unsupervised in the …

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Picture of a domestic cat nuzzling a tiger

Picture of a domestic cat nuzzling a Siberian tiger

Although the image above is fictional, it is entirely possibly for a domestic cat to make friends with a tiger. The tiger would be captive. And probably somewhat domesticated and/or habituated to the human presence. Tigers can prey on domestic cats and dogs. There is no unwritten feline agreement that the tiger should not …

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Amazon driver who made friends with a cat rightly becomes an Internet social media celebrity

Amazon driver is touched by the praise that he received for his friendship with a cat that he met on his delivery rounds

This is a cross-post because I think this young man, Evan Snow, deserves some celebrity. He is by a conventional view an ordinary bloke. Just an Amazon delivery driver like many others. But within the ordinary there is the extraordinary. In my opinion the ordinary person often needs far more praise and celebrity (which …

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Owning your cat versus being in a relationship with your cat

Take the species out of the equation and you are left with a relationship with your cat rather than owning your cat.

It’s important in terms of high standards of cat caregiving to be in a proper relationship with your cat rather than believing that you own them. An attitude which allows a person to feel that they own their cat is not likely to lead to a relationship which promotes cat welfare in the best …

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Find happiness in the day-to-day mundane, friends and family and your cat or dog

Barbra Streisand

I’ve just read Giles Coren’s comment article in The Times today, November 11, 2023 which discusses Barbra Streisand’s statement when promoting her memoir in which she said that she hasn’t had fun in her life and that she wants to have some fun now and ‘live life’ which in her words, means: “I want …

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Non-cat owners ask: “Do cats get emotionally attached to their owners like dogs?”

Timothy Hardway with his cat

To good cat owners – and the vast majority are at least decent at the job – the question in the title is bizarre and slightly upsetting as it implies that cats simply don’t become emotionally attached to their owner when obviously they do otherwise there wouldn’t be many millions of happy cats and …

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