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There are so many cute cat scratching posts around today that it's hard to not buy them all. My favorite deal on a cat scratcher was when we used our flu shot gift cards from Target on one last year! It was a Halloween house and very cute. I also love the houses that Aldi sells for Halloween and Christmas, although they always sell out so fast.
Servals are gorgeous creatures. I'd love to see one of these majestic wild cats, but I don't think I'd like waking up to one very much. That's what happened to an Atlanta woman whose husband got out of bed, let the dog out and somehow let a wild cat into their house. She woke up to the cat in bed with her!
The Asiatic golden cat is an endangered species that isn't seen very often, which is why it's so cool that this one was recently seen in Cambodia. This is the first time that one has been seen in Ratanakiri province, but it's also part of an ongoing conservation effort in Virachey National Park, so hopefully it won't be a once-in-a-lifetime event.
If there's anything I've learned from both toddlers and finicky felines, it's that the expensive gadgets we buy mean much less to them than the packages they come in. Cardboard boxes, pipe cleaners... these are the things that keep my cats happy. In fact, I often find a bunch of pipe cleaners curled up around the house after a cat or two drug them out of a supply closet somewhere!
Sainsbury's and Pets at Home have issued a recall on Ford Hill's Ava pet food that they say is a precaution, but at lease one pet owner believes the food led to her kitten's death. The food may be involved in cats developing a bone marrow illness known as pancytopenia.
Cat owners can return the food to Sainsbury's and Pets at Home for a refund with or without a receipt. A total of 24 types of food are being recalled while the company investigates these claims.
No, this isn't more programming FOR cats designed to make them leap at your TV screen, but programming inspired by cats and dogs. Netflix says that after such a hard period in history, focusing on animals will provide some much-needed, light-hearted fun for viewers. That may be very true; I haven't watched much heavy content since Covid began.
Who ever said all cats hate water? I've had some who love it! What about cats always landing on their feet? That's a dangerous myth to spread around, if you ask me. It might tempt kids to challenge it and really hurt a cat. Cat myths are way too plentiful, if you ask me, and some are downright silly.
As someone who has had cats all my life, it always amazes me when I learn more facts about cats. I'll never forget learning that they like to hunt and bring us food because they find us to be helpless, hairless cats! I've also heard various people speak about how our cats would definitely eat us if they were large enough, which makes me cringe. I'm not sure if I buy that one, but maybe it's just because I don't want to consider it!
The story is a bittersweet one: a dead kitten was found in a yard in the UK, prompting a cat rescue to go searching for the rest of its litter. While a mama cat was discovered, no litter could be seen--until said mama climbed a tree and led them to her litter inside a bird's nest!
As someone who's had cats my whole life, I know a thing or two about butts on counters. My family doesn't take it nearly as seriously as I do, but they haven't had to cut poop out of the fur of our long-haired cat, or clean up clumps of litter and poop that our flighty cat drags up with her once in a while. I know what's on these cats and I don't want it where I eat, thank you. This doesn't even begin to cover how their paws are in a poop box, too!
