When I got my first cat as a grown up I, for some reason, thought I should keep them out of the bedroom at night. (I had been around cats as a kid, but they were barn cats, not house cats.) After the first few hours of scratching at the door and crying, my cat learned that he could reach under the door, grab onto a springy door stopper that was attached and pull back on it to make a loud boiiing noise. Well, that was the last straw. I let him in, he scolded me for shutting the door, and my cats have been sleeping with me ever since (and I can't imagine why I ever wanted to keep...
What is a cat loaf? If you have ever seen a cat with it's legs folded up underneath so that it is the shape of a loaf of bread, you have seen a cat loaf. This "cat loaf of bread" is also known as a tugboat, and hillspet.com also lists potato cat, hovercat and turkey cat as other names for cat loaves. It's an adorable position that has endeared itself to cat lovers everywhere! But, why do cats loaf? According to Inverse, cats in a loaf position are relaxed and feel safe. With their paws tucked underneath them, their claws are not in a position to fight, so if you see your cat loafing with it's claws beneath them, you know they don't...
You've likely seen cats kneading, at least on the internet if not in your own home. It is when a cat will push out it's paws one after the other in a motion similar to a baker kneading dough. In fact, it looks so similar that many on social media have dubbed it "making biscuits". But, what's up with cats and kneading? According to PetMD, kittens start kneading while nursing from their mothers to stimulate milk flow, so it's a behavior that starts very early on in cats. I have seen some people on social media who seem to think that it's a bad thing if an adult cat is still kneading, but PetMD says that adult cats will knead because...
This article is about cats that nip or softly bite. We also have an article about catnip you can check out if that is what you are looking for. Have you ever been petting your cat and then they softly bite you? That is the most common time I've been nipped by my cats. It's not a hard bite, and not enough to break the skin, just more of a grazing of the teeth against my hand. When I've felt that, it seems to mean that they are done with being petted. I have learned to take the hint and remove my hand when this happens to keep them from having to tell me more forcefully that they don't want more...
Last week, we looked at toe beans and mentioned that in space there is cat's paw nebula. The week before that, we talked about barn cats and boat cats working in pest control, and that got me thinking... has there ever been a cat who worked as an astronaut? The answer is yes! Let's find out more about this space cat! Our intrepid astronaut cat started her days as a street cat in Paris. According to Allthatsinteresting.com cats were widely used in studies of neurophysiology in the 1960's, so French scientists thought training some cats for space missions would be a good way to study the effects of space flight, since cats were a well known animal. They rounded up 14...
