You can read lots about the benefits of a commercially available cat pheromone called Feliway®. It must be the most widely used commercially available product on the market to help calm cats in a multi-cat environment or perhaps in a home where there are one or two cats and one is “misbehaving”. And it …
For me, this is a story which intersects the way women are treated by American and Israeli hospitals and in general and in particular with respect to the stereotypical cultural concept of the “crazy cat lady”. They are all designed to belittle women and they all stem from the male’s misogyny which in American …
A new study which involved a team of scientists going through 400 years-worth of literature and visiting and measuring dodo specimens around the UK came to the conclusion that it was invasive species such as cats and rats and others rather than Dutch sailors – who hunted the dodo for its meat – which …
Years ago, I proposed that the feline Henry’s pocket, a small extra fold of cartilage and skin within the ear flaps (pinnae) of domestic cats, was to enhance the ability to hear high pitched sounds. I was corrected by a welcome visitor who proposed that this mysterious item of feline anatomy (which still troubles …
This is a very technical article. It is all about chemistry. It is basically a chemistry lesson. Ninety-nine percent of the population will stop at this point and move on. 😎 But this is very relevant to dry cat food as it is so artificial. It’s sort of like pieces of flavourless protein blocks …
I recently wrote an article about a cat that has for ear flaps. They named him Audio. That article is about the misdescription of the condition because a cat with 4 ear flaps does not have four sets of ear anatomy. They just have 4 ear flaps; the bit that we can see. And …
Google Scholar must be embarrassed by news that two guys managed to submit nonsense academic papers ostensibly written by a cat called Larry which was cited by others and which led to Larry being ranked higher academically than real academics! The guys who organised this have exposed, they believe, a flaw in the highly …
This story is both interesting – particularly if you are interested in science – and concerning. It might even be very worrying to some people. The lead author of this report, Mary Hagedorn, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian institution in Washington DC, has suggested that initially the frozen tissue of endangered animal species …
