As with their human counterparts, cats typically get fat because they eat too much and exercise too little. Obesity-related health problems include heart disease, ruptured ligaments, respiratory compromise, tiredness, diabetes, greater susceptibility to certain types of liver disease, and osteoarthritis. If you’ve got a fat cat, ask your veterinarian about a diet and exercise program…
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Cats have been known to wield an almost hypnotic power, controlling human behavior with a flick of the tail or the merest meow. Case in point—the feline fiend in “What Cats Want,” BBDO’s latest campaign for Sheba cat food. With just a longing look, little Tabby lures a libidinous lunkhead away from his date mid-makeout…
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Take a good look at Jake the moggy… can you work out the X Factor that makes him Britain’s rarest cat? The clue lies in the colour of his coat… and the fact that Jake is a HE. Jake defies 400,000/1 odds of being a male cat with black, ginger and white fur. Normally tomcats have only…
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What’s better than an online personality test? An online cat personality test. After testing about 2,800 domestic cats, researchers found something interesting: Cats are not too different from us humans. Many psychologists subscribe to the theory that all people have five broad personality traits, known as the “Big Five“: extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness and…
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Cats and kittens who weren’t properly socialized before 12 weeks of age can still become confident, loving companions with a little extra time and patience.
Moving a cat to a new house involves three basic aspects: pre-move preparations, the move itself and settling into the new home. Preparation Allow your cat time to get used to his carrier. Leave it sitting out with the door open and a comfy bed inside. Occasionally leave a couple of cat treats in it…
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Studies have shown that just watching cat videos on the internet can create positive emotions—so it’s no surprise that being ‘happily owned’ by a cat 🙂 has a number of benefits. Here are just a few… CATS HELP YOU COPE … Cats have been shown to help people get over their loss more quickly, and show…
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Cats have many unique and amusing behavioral traits, and kneading is just one of them. Kneading is the motion cats make by rhythmically alternating their paws, pushing in and out against a pliable, soft object (such as a lap). Not all cats knead in the same way; some never push out their claws at all, and…
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Here are some of the reasons why many felines avoid water. It’s genetic! Domestic cats are descended from the Near Eastern wildcat that called the Middle East home. This wildcat can still be found today in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Israel. The regions where the ancestors of house cats lived were arid and they had…
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No one knows for sure why a domestic cat purrs, but many people interpret the sound as one of contentment. Most scientists agree that the larynx (voice box), laryngeal muscles, and a neural oscillator are involved. Kittens learn how to purr when they are a couple of days old. Veterinarians suggest that this purring tells…
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