A Michael Broad Blog
By Ruth How often do we hear someone say: ‘If I have to be reborn on this earth I hope I come back as a cat’ (domestic cat). Well, to me that’s the daftest wish of all to make, because cats are the most vulnerable, misunderstood and mistreated animals of all. Too many people …
Why do cats have short lives? We are unsure but I have a theory, perhaps a simplistic theory which I present here. It begins with size and ends with proliferation.
Why do cats live longer than dogs? Curiously Dr Google PhD does not provide us with a good answer on page one of their search results. However, Google presents a video on the Science Magazine website which is generally poor. And some people question whether cats do in fact live longer than dogs. For …
This elderly Texan discovered the unlikely formula for feline longevity but even knowing everything he does with respect to cat caretaking it is hard to know exactly what the secret is.
The snow leopard lifespan for females, on average and in captivity, is 9.6 years (Ref: O’Connor T and H Freeman 1982 Maternal behaviour a behavioural developments in the captive snow leopard (Panthera u. uncial). International pedigree book of snow leopards 3: 103-110). However, a female snow leopard in the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado gave …
The question in the title is asking, indirectly, the maximum lifespan of the cheetah. I will also provide, from a very reliable source, the lifespan of the cheetah in various locations. It is stated that as with all the felids, longevity in the wild is about half that in captivity. Wild-caught cheetahs in captivity …
