Green spaces linked to better human health. Does this inform us about domestic cat ownership?

kitten looking intently at camera while lying low in the grass

I’ve always thought that humans have gradually, through their best efforts, distanced themselves from nature. It’s a natural evolution through greater population numbers, commercialism, housebuilding, larger cities, more concrete and less access to nature. It has been found in a study that those who were raised among the lowest levels of green spaces were …

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Cat lovers should be nature lovers and nature lovers have higher self-esteem

I believe that true cat lovers also love nature and more connected to nature. This is because if you love the domestic cat you love her characteristics and personality and this personality is very close to the wild and the wild is nature. Researchers at the University of Derby have come to the conclusion …

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Proof That the Presence of Humans Is Bad for Wild Animals

“When humans are removed nature flourishes, even in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear accident.”-Prof Smith (Prof of environmental science at the University of Portsmouth) I have possibly over generalised in the title to this article but the point is being made. The point is this: that, in the long term, where there …

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Capitalism is the Biggest Threat to Cats

As Yuval Noah Harari states, there is a crisis in our dominant religious faith; capitalism. Yuval says: “the main message of capitalism, as a religion as opposed to an economic theory, is that growth is the supreme value of humankind.” Capitalism is a sort of religion although we don’t see it as that and …

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Domestic Cats and Cougars-The Catastrophic California Drought

Is the California drought as bad as it looks to an outsider? The online media paint a very bleak picture. I have just read that Western USA has lost, in this drought, 63,000,000,000,000 gallons (63 trillion) of groundwater which has caused the surface of the earth to rise. I don’t know the science behind …

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