As a cat owner you may be familiar with the sometimes-startling experience of finding a dead bird, mouse or other small creature around your house. While it may be the thought that counts, many pet owners are often left bewildered by cat behavior and wondering – among other things – if...
It should be an easy question to answer. But cats being cats have made things difficult here, their complex biology leading to a fierce debate among scientists. For instance, it was previously theorised that purring was caused by blood surging through the inferior vena cava – a large vein...
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, along with the animals' mothers, to the fede
Life keeps trying to beat us over the head, and we keep resisting. I’d hoped to build a small greenhouse structure to replace the cheap plastic things I use, but that won’t be happening this winter after all. Which means buying a new set of cheap plastic things, because I kept forg...
Walking away in the face of provocation is seen as a sign of weakness as the cat will cede territory and dominant status. As a result, neither cat will want to back down. Eventually, this leads to a physical confrontation. Both cats will claw and bite, hoping to end the conflict. If ...
Crystals, minerals, and precipitates—these things can form and grow within an animal’s urinary tract system to become what is called a stone (also referred to as a urolith or calculi). Stones can vary both in where they are located in the urinary tract system as well as what they are...
burst into a frenzied howl. Its Twoleg yanked its tether as though trying to silence it, but the dog barked louder. Around the fire, the Twolegs began to turn like startled sheep. Every hair on Nightheart’s pelt was telling him to flee, but he forced himself to keep walking toward ...
smoking and walking around, alone and idle, waiting for work to resume. During those hours, a cat who had been peeping out a window was always good company, and a guide for new exploration. He had made friends with a tabby cat, fell-fed, blue bow at his collar, certainly housed by ...
This morning I looked out the window and saw a grey form walking across the yard. I dashed to the front door and called him, and he sauntered up the front steps and came right through the open door. And the second he was safely inside I picked him up and then promptly burst into ...
but this arrangement might not be so great for cats’ mental health, either. They can get really stressed out in our houses. A lot of things that we consider normal – everything from the volume of our voices, to our thermostats, to the way that a child is playing with a toy – can...