If your familiy includes a cat, you may have noticed that your cat seems to have a closer bond with one person in the family compared to the others. They follow that person around, hang out in the same room as them, go to that one person for pets or playtime, or maybe want to sit or snuggle with them instead of anyone else in the house. So that makes you think, do cats have favorite people? And, how do cats choose their favorite person? Of course all cats are individuals with their own likes and dislikes, but a big factor on why cats choose one person is that person's personality, and how well it meshes with the cat's personality. PangoVet.com gives...
A familiar theme on social media is that cats can see ghosts. As I write this, Halloween just passed, and all that spookiness got me thinking... can cats see spirits? What's up with ghosts and cats? As I've been writing this blog, I've explored a lot about the senses that cats possess and how they might compare to a human's senses. For example, when looking into whether cats can see in the dark, I learned that they can see in low light around 6 times better than us. The Dodo says that is because cats eyeballs have around 6 times the number of rods in them. Cats can also see better in the dark due to two other special features...
A few weeks ago, I wrote all about cat's primordial pouches, and that made me wonder ... do cats have belly buttons? I never saw a cat belly button - of course the fur can make it hard to see, and my cats only allow belly rubs in small doses, so I've never felt it either, but cats must have belly buttons, right? To find the answer to "do cats have navels", I went to Rover.com and they say that yes, cats have belly buttons, and a cat belly button is there for the same reason that humans have belly buttons - they mark the place where the umbilical cord connected them to their mother before they were born. In fact, all mammals...
We've highlighted many different jobs for cats here, like therapy cats, barn cats, ship cats and post office cats, but did you know there was a physicist cat? Yes, his name was Chester, although in scholarly circles he used the name FDC Willard, and he was co-author of a paper entitled "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3HeTwo-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He". AtlasObscura describes it as an influential and often cited physics paper about the behavior of atoms at different temperatures. Most cats I know don't know much about physics, (hell most people I know, myself included, aren't well versed in the behavior of atoms), so how did a cat end up as co-author of...
If you ask anyone what a cat's favorite food is, they'll likely to say fish. Cats seem to be obsessed with fish! But, it seems strange that an animal who evolved in the desert would be so interested in a food that wasn't likely to be on the menu. So why do cats like fish (even if they hate water?) Can a cat eat fish? Let's look into the story of cats and fish! There is a theory that the ancient Egyptians may have started the domestic cats taste for fish. According to mycatlifestyle.com, the idea is that the Egyptians wanted to attract cats to them in order to help keep rodents out of the food they had harvested and...
