A Michael Broad Blog
Here is a funny cat meme pic from I can haz cheeseburger. Remember that website? It was big once when pictures of cats was big too. That was in around 2008. The site is still going. The pics look a bit tired nowadays but this one struck a chord with me as we do …
Quite a a lot of work is being done by researchers on detecting the changes in expression of a domestic cat when they are suffering from pain. There are changes but they can be subtle. It’s actually one of the great problems for a cat caregiver; to understand how their cat is feeling in …
This is a difference in animal welfare between the UK and the USA which highlights an underlying difference in culture. American citizens need to read this and ask themselves some tough questions. I love America. Ninety-nine percent of it 🙂 . I hate cat declawing and the exploitation of the outdated 2nd Amendment. Crab …
A cell phone (smartphone) app, in development, but in beta version called Tably, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to be able to read a domestic cat’s facial expressions to tell the owner how their cat feels. It is an interesting development on the back of previous studies which showed that domestic cats do have subtle …
Background Akvelon, whose motto is “We make BIG software happen”, are developing a computer program using artificial intelligence and machine learning which they claim will be able to translate a domestic cat’s vocalisations (sounds such as meows) for the benefit of their human caretakers. It’s the Holy Grail of the cat-to-human relationship. We do …
