If It’s True That Cat Owners Are More Neurotic Than Dog Owners, This Is Why!
I’m referring to a study (yet another study it seems or is it a rehash of an existing one – I don’t know) which came to the conclusion that pet owners are more satisfied...
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Internet Study Indicates an Association Between Cat Scratches and Depression
Introduction from Michael (Admin): I feel that I have to introduce this article by Jo because it is a very complicated area and scientists write in a language which is not easily interpreted by...
Are Domestic Pet Cats “Just Tiny Tigers”?
According to an article recently published in “Catnip”, (the newsletter for caring cat owners) produced by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, “Our loveable domestic cats have more in common with...
13 Surprising Signs of Braininess
Please read on as there is a cat in this article 😉 . Testing braininess is a tricky business but here are some clues that a person might be relatively brainy: 1. He/she took...
Domestic Cats to Become Surrogate Mothers To Tigers!
In a far-fetched proposal to help save the highly endangered tiger domestic cats might become surrogate mothers to tiger cubs (it would be a “gestational surrogacy” as I understand it). This is a proposal...
Are Domestic Cats Going to Emulate Dogs and Become Lazy Thinkers?
Researchers at Oregon State University have concluded that the 30,000 year domestication of the dog has resulted in man’s best friend being unable to think for himself. The domestic dog has become a lazy...
Removal of Cats May Not Result in the Recovery of a Threatened Species
Ecosystems are complex. In order to understand the role of the domestic cat in respect of predation, it is important to recognise that the cat is one of a large group of predators some...
Flawed Study: “Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus) Do Not Show Signs of Secure Attachment to Their Owners”
The online newspapers have picked up on a bit of cat behavior research carried out at Lincoln University in the UK which concerns the attachment of domestic cats to their human caretakers/guardians. It is,...
Two Little Known Facts About Cats Preying on Birds
I’ll keep this fairly short because I am not too sure how relevant it is to the cat/bird debate. There are two facts that relate to it which might interest some people. It concerns...
Cat owners in denial about cat hunting
Are UK cat owners really in denial about the level of killings by their cat? This is the conclusion of a recent study. It discovered that 60% of owners disagreed that domestic cats were...
Cats see us as cats while dogs see us as being different
Based on a lot of research with dogs and how they interact with people it is clear that dogs perceive us as being different to themselves. Dogs change their behavior when interacting with humans....
Therapeutic Cat Videos Make Us Purr
Negative emotions such as sadness and irritation are dissipated after watching cat videos online. This is the belief of Dr Myrick who conducted a study. Although, she admits, that her study has limitations in...
Cats can reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack by 40%
This is a jaw-dropping fact: Cats can reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack by 40%! And it’s backed up by a University of Minnesota research study. I guess it’s all about reducing...
Stray cats in China may have influenza viruses from other species in them
This is a short post to pass on information that I have read on the Winn Feline Foundation website. Scientists in China studied 700 stray cats living near poultry markets and poultry farms in...
Good cat owners are more dependent on their cats
A study by UC Berkely and California State University, East Bay, concluded that cat owners who’d be described as overprotective parents (in relation to their children) were the best personality types for cat caretaking....
Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.
