Harking back to the very beginnings of the domestic cat around 9,500 years ago when wild cats were domesticated because they caught snakes and killed rodents, in Indonesia domestic cats still protect families from poisonous snakes as is evidenced by … Continue reading →
Snake Catchers Adelaide, on their Facebook page have published a video of a cat coming into her home with a deadly eastern brown snake stuck in her collar. It is amazing. This is the second most deadly snake in the … Continue reading →
An adopted Claiborne County, Tennessee cat is being called a heroine this week after she killed a poisonous snake inside the home of her new elderly owner. Teresa Seals posted the story of Shelly, who was adopted from the Claiborne … Continue reading →
Mission, Texas, on the US-Mexico border: In a disturbing photograph on the Yaqui Animal Rescue Facebook webpage, it seems as if someone is selling unwanted cats to customers for food at a flea market. ‘Food’ appears to mean snake food. … Continue reading →
In the USA, there are some insects that are more likely to sting a cat. The domestic cat is naturally curious and a predator. Wild cats (the domestic cat ancestor) sometimes feed on insects so we can see that there … Continue reading →
Luke Huntley is a snake catcher living in Noosa, Eastern Australia. He has a Facebook page. On January 16 he made a post which you can see below. Essentially, he is telling Australians that they should keep their cats inside … Continue reading →
Place: Thailand. A pensioner, Ruang Peung, 65, kept on losing his cats. He believes that he lost all 6 of his cats to the python. They used to frequent the back yard where Peung now believes they were crushed and … Continue reading →
Do domestic cats kill snakes, today? We know that at the beginning of wild cat domestication (about 9,500 years ago) semi-domestic cats killed snakes because the snake is on the pray diet for the wild cat ancestor of the domestic … Continue reading →
Domestic cats imitate snakes in four ways. These traits have been inherited from the African wild cat. They are designed to aid survival as predators are wary of venomous snakes.
Continue reading →Yes, sand cats kill snakes very efficiently even if they are venomous. In some areas of the sand cat’s distribution reptiles play an important role in the cat’s diet. For example the nomads of the Sahara desert in North Africa … Continue reading →
