What affects us affects cats
St. Petersburg, Russia: The Daily Mail reports that Ekaterina Kuraeva, 45, adopted a meerkat from Moscow Zoo six years ago because ‘she didn’t feel it was getting the care it needed’. In other words she performed a meekat rescue from a zoo. At the time she already had what looks like a blue British …
I’ll cut to the chase as I have mentioned this study before but Michelle Starr of MSN has nicely picked out some key elements of a study into emotional bonding between cats/dogs and humans. These are interspecies friendships. The study at Oregon State University lead by Kristyn Vitale found that cats form secure attachment …
Ukraine: This photograph caught my eye. My first thought was that the dog was biting down on the tabby kitten but I quickly realised that the dog’s mouth was open and the kitten was passively resting inside it. The dog had just saved his feline friend from a house fire caused by a massive …
I like the photograph as it describes a lot about life. The girl likes to ride her horse to ‘cure’ her. I think she means that being in contact with her horse makes her feel better. We know how being in contact with animals alleviates stress and confusion in kids. The gray cat apparently …
This little video shows how each animal species have their own way to engage in play. This tiny, baby goat only knows how to headbutt if he wants to have fun with his cat companion while she employs typical cat play behaviour; the friendly, fun bite that can be too strong sometimes. It is …
An insight into animal perceptions and understanding can be obtained from an experiment by farmers in southern IndiaA. Farmers painted black stripes and spots on dogs. To monkeys who were raiding crops of coffee and areca, these ‘tiger dogs’ are an effective deterrent. The monkeys stay away. On the face of it there can …
This is an impromptu test of canine and feline intelligence or perhaps it is not. It seems to have some significance. Perhaps it is more to do with personality type. There are three companion animals. The first one to decide to jump over the clear plastic barrier is a rare dwarf cat; probably a …
A stray dog, who has been named Serenity by the rescue centre where she now resides, was found cuddling newborn kittens who had been abandoned in the snow on a freezing cold night in Canada reports the Daily Mail via Facebook and Fox29. The passerby who spotted them alerted the Pet and Wildlife Rescue …
