A production line of suckling kittens. This is an usual photograph. It is cute though. The interesting aspect of kittens being nursed is that each kitten finds and sticks to their own private nipple. It is theirs and theirs alone. … Continue reading →
This is an audio version (2.5 minutes) of an aricle I wrote about purring reducing pain in cats. I am experimenting with audio files. It’s not great quality but I am simply trying to get across a point: that the … Continue reading →
This sounds really good and it is certainly interesting. A mobile phone which can translate your cat’s meows and other sounds (perhaps) with a bit of training by the owner. You download the mobile app, Meow Talk, from Google Play … Continue reading →
All the experts and the veterinarians say that if you are going to embark on a weight loss program for your overweight domestic cat you should do it gently because too-rapid weight loss can result in serious metabolic problems such … Continue reading →
Tigers attack humans because humans can be prey animals to a tiger under certain circumstances. That’s the bottom line of it. Although the story isn’t as simple as that because tiger attacks on humans are quite rare when you put … Continue reading →
It is hard to tell whether this cat is totally disgusted or pissed of with what is happening before his eyes or that his facial anatomy encourages this look. It’s probably a bit of both but I think it is … Continue reading →
Here’s an unusual photograph of 7 cute Ragdoll kittens looking up at the camera. You won’t see cats cutter than these. I have to confess that there is no caption to this photograph on Twitter and therefore, on my analysis, … Continue reading →
This is a bit of fun. I don’t know anything about this photograph, by which I mean I don’t know the backstory but we have to presume that this delightful ginger tabby cat, which I think is a boy, loves … Continue reading →
It is a fallacy that domestic cats don’t like water or that they are scared of it. We don’t need the video below to support this argument but it makes a nice video nonetheless. It depends upon the individual cat … Continue reading →
Late in the day, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) decided to condemn the declawing of wild cats because they couldn’t see any reason for doing it. There is positively no reason for declawing wild cats. Therefore they have to … Continue reading →
@lemonletterBuy a normal lamp and keep your kitties safe! ##cat ##fyp ##staysafe ##love ##Affirmations♬ Send Me on My Way – Guy Meets Girl The lamps are made from blocks of salt which can be lethal to cats. Apparently a New … Continue reading →
All domestic cats have webbed feet but it is difficult to see the webbing for the obvious reason that their toes are covered in quite dense fur. Incidentally, the domestic cat with the most dense fur on their paws is … Continue reading →
What’s so good about this video? For me, it is the gentleness and the patience of this guy who trains his cats informally. There’s nothing disciplinarian about it. It just happens and his cats guide him. He brings them into … Continue reading →
I love all cat lovers. Well, not quite, not the ones who hoard cats but perhaps they’re not true cat lovers anyway. The phrase “cat lover” always refers to domestic, stray and feral cats. It is quite narrow in its … Continue reading →
The Association of Dogs and Cats Homes’s statistics tell us that cats are twice as likely to be abandoned than dogs during the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. The lockdown is continuing in a sporadic way across Britain. So this … Continue reading →
ANALYSIS: I wonder whether this car crash in Germany has exposed another example of live wildlife trading in breach of agreements between countries under international treaties. The trade in wildlife both dead and alive is an enormous business across the … Continue reading →
Although personally I am an unbeliever, there are those who firmly believe that there are big cats secretively lurking around the British countryside, invisible almost all the time and one such person is Andrew Hemmings of the Royal Agricultural University … Continue reading →
Although, in the UK, the chemical metaldehyde has been banned from slug pellets from the Spring of 2020, because it is just too toxic to animals, there will be old stocks of pellets in garden sheds which contain the chemical … Continue reading →
The infographic is by Ruth aka Kattaddorra. She is a cat lover who lives in the North of England. She created the infographic many years ago. Every day I pick up my cat several times. He asks me to do … Continue reading →
About 6 years ago I wrote about the Bangladeshi and Indian people working in the sprawling 10,000 square kilometre Delta of mangrove swamps called the Sundarbans and how they protected themselves from tiger attacks by wearing masks. The masks are … Continue reading →
