Guy Fawkes Night…keeping your cat calm.
It’s the time of year a lot of animal lovers dread again. If your feline family member isn’t great at coping with Bonfire Night, the PDSA have made this useful illustration to help with tips to hopefully keep them calmer….
And in keeping with the season….
One of the wonderful odes I happened across while researching black cat facts. Whether you call it Halloween or Samhain, I hope you have lots of safe, spooky fun.
Lucky Black Cat…?
This time of year I always find myself musing over how society views black cats. How different countries attribute their own superstitions to them, how mythology perceives them and how lore surrounding them is radically diverse. Black cats have inspired…
Cat Etiquette…
I’ve signposted people to Pam Johnson-Bennett’s Facebook page in previous blogs, but if you haven’t visited it already, I strongly recommend you do. The page contains a plethora of bite sized behavioural facts about cats to help you understand your…
The truth about cats and dogs…
A recent news article reported how the resident Downing Street cat, Larry wasn’t especially welcoming of the newest family’s Labrador, Nova. There have apparently been heated exchanges between the two. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/larry-cat-sunak-dog-fight-b2416669.html?fbclid=IwAR16Z4P8k1mdEnTjIRil5kt17mkAVi3wRgiTa1vbFp_yF2RfK15sSjL8JJg_aem_AUs-BD7zRTUcqkdG2E0WwGFExYBBRf7Wk3o6ukXuZKFgFz4qbXWxccL908MwgJyfTaM This leads me to wonder how introductions were handled….
Ten feline facts…
Social media had some pretty fab cat related graphics recently. This one giving ten fascinating facts is another I thought other people would be interested in if they’d not seen it already. Image source: Facebook social media.
Love language….
A quick graphic giving instructions on how to communicate affection in “catish.” Image Source: Facebook social media.
Where everybody knows your name….
Following on from the previous post, I recently heard about a cat named Murphy. Murphy is a well known face in his local area; he’s an extremely friendly boy and enjoys visiting people and places on “his patch.” He spends…
Why it’s important that cats are viewed as family…
Recently I saw a post on a local neighbourhood forum regarding a cat visiting someone’s home. The poster asked if anyone knew who “the little person” in their picture was. The cat was friendly so it was likely they had…
Green and pleasant land…an update on plant labelling in the UK.
Back in August 2020, I wrote a blog about how featuring toxicity levels of plants on their sale labels would be beneficial to people with companion animals, and potentially life saving to animals themselves. Some cats are, by nature, nibblers….
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