Cat Chat

Hello Kitty

Source: the 3786 cups of water via Flickr

We've covered a lot of interesting facets of Japanese culture. However, I noticed that one of the most influential cultural good from Japan has yet to be featured – the incredibly cute Hello Kitty!

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A big thing that pregnant women are told to stay away from and warned about is the cat's litter box. Isn't the sound of that great!? Doctor's orders to have someone else do the the dirty job for once! Once that is said not many people ask why it's not good for pregnant women to be exposed. Read more

A cat lover my whole life, I can’t imagine living without my feline friends. At one point in my life, I did have to give two beloved cats to family members when I brought my baby home from the hospital on oxygen, and it was a tough choice. But now that she’s a preschooler, we’ve got two huggable fur balls rolling around the house, and she loves them just as much as we do.

If you’ve been thinking about getting a cat, or you once had one and miss the company, now is the perfect time to adopt a new pet. Shelters tend to overflow with new litters in the summertime, and these cats and kittens could certainly use a new home. To find a shelter near you, click here. Read more

Cute CatDo cats have a learning disability that dogs don't have? One researcher won't put it in so many words, but her research into the friendly felines has demonstrated that "cats do not understand cause and effect connections between objects".  Her experiment was not high-tech at all- she basically baited a string with tasty treats (fish and a biscuit), and placed them out of reach  to see "if the cats could work out that pulling on the string would pull the treat closer."

She used three strings: "a single baited string, two parallel strings where only one was baited, and two crossed strings where only one was baited."
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Now, why won't my cat learn to do this?

We love kittens. There’s no questioning that a kitten is one of the top ten cutest things on the planet, and we always wish we could keep our kittens their size forever. Kittens tend to get adopted much more quickly than older cats for the same reason that human babies typically get adopted faster than adolescents—they’re cuter, they’re not yet conditioned to a certain behavior or way of life, and the parent feels that bonding with them will be much easier without so much history. Read more

Cat with wingsAs if escaping cats’ claws isn’t hard enough for the birds of the world, they now have to be on the lookout for a cat in China that has grown a pair of wings. Read more

Space Cat: Photo by polandeze via Flickr

Does your cat chat? Do you know what it is trying to tell you? Perhaps you need to take a moment to read through this article and learn more about cat chatter. As with all things in life, there is usually more than meets the eye; or the ears in this case.

Three Easy Ways to Decipher Your Cat's Language
Figuring out what your cat is trying to tell you is actually rather easily done. Know what all of the cat chat is about by simply following these three simple suggestions.
1. Higher pitched, desperate meows typically relate to hunger, attention needs and desires for outdoor adventures (if your cat is allowed outside), as well as, “My litter box needs to be changed, dang it!”
2. Lower pitched, rumbling meows mean that your cat is agitated, angry, peeved or ready to pounce.
3. Medium toned meows and leg rubs, or meows that you can barely hear in the room means, find me, pet me, I am cat chatting to let you know that I want some day-to-day affection. Read more