National Geographic article “To save birds, should we kill off cats?” is poor
The National Geographic article originally published in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine with the headline, “To save birds, should be kill off cats?” is poor for a couple of...
View ArticleAllowing domestic cats to be unsupervised and free-roaming in the Europe...
A couple of Dutch academics, Arie Trouwborst and Han Somsen – the former is an associate professor and the latter a full professor – state that allowing cats to roam outside without supervision by...
View ArticleMuseum display of stuffed tabby cat next to line of 34 stuffed birds is...
I believe that this display is in a Dutch museum: the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. It is unpleasant. It also over-simplifies the issues of domestic cat predation and as a result misleads....
View ArticleBirds can use cat fur to build nests
It’s the bird nest building season (Feb-Aug) and I have just learned that domestic cats can contribute to the welfare of birds which is nice to know considering that ornithologists are annoyed about...
View ArticleCrowned eagles attack cats and dogs in South Africa
Some of the nests of the crowned eagle in Durban, South Africa, date back to the 1960s. People have moved into their territories in new settlements, which is one reason why this large bird of prey, a...
View ArticleDomestic cat meets bald eagle
House cat not intimidated by a bald eagle. from r/nextfuckinglevel I have to comment on this. The eagle may have become semi-domesticated or at least tamed to a certain extent because the owner of the...
View ArticleVeterinarians involved in TNR under attack within their own profession?
Dr John Bradshaw in his book Cat Sense writes that some veterinary surgeons who are involved in managing the welfare of feral cats by neutering and vaccinating them and then returning them to their...
View ArticleBird attacks domestic cat. Cat makes mighty leap in retaliation.
Flying kitty from r/gifs My impression is that this bird is a magpie and she is defending her young. I’m not an ornithologist so I am assessing what’s happened as a layperson. The cat, which looks like...
View ArticleDonald Trump brings cats into the presidential election campaign
Inadvertently and in typical Donald Trump style, he has brought domestic cats into the presidential election campaign. He doesn’t like wind power. He doesn’t like wind turbines for various reasons one...
View ArticleBirdfeeder placement to help avoid attack by cats
I can think of two instances (but there are many more) of exposing, through good intentions, birds to predation by cats which, to me, highlights the need to be at least aware of the potential dangers....
View ArticleRooster play-fights with domestic cat
This is a strange video. It is not obvious that the rooster and cat are play-fighting. Some observers might think that they are actually fighting to the death but I’m convinced that they are not. You...
View ArticleCat observes three pigeons in a National Bird Day picture
This picture is three days late because National Bird Day in America takes place on 5th January annually. I think it’s quite an apt picture and it is a good photograph. I also believe that the birds...
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