The trend of cloning pets is still going on, and now those pets are becoming Instagram famous. ViaGen, the company that cloned Barbara Streisand’s dog, Sammie, is charging people an incredible amount of money to clone their furry best friends--$35,000 for cats and $50,000 for a dog.
If your cats are anything like mine, they'd be super happy with an empty cardboard box for Valentine's Day. You could make it extra special with some catnip! But some folks really enjoy spoiling their fur babies with lots of little themed gifts and goodies, and can you really blame them? They're so cute, and if it brings you joy, then why not? Here are a few ideas for cat Valentines this year.
Traveling around the country from an RV or school bus transformed into a home and working from the road has always sounded so enticing to me. I blame my Sagittarius rising. My many pets, particularly of the feline variety, have largely kept me home, among other things, but lately I've been seeing more and more cats join their humans on not just road trips but in living on the road.
Maine Coons are often enormous cats. Many people long for one of these big companions to snuggle and Yulia Minina of eastern Russia has one. The cat, Kefir, is only two years old and thought to be the largest kitten in the world. Kefir weights just under 28 pounds and is larger than many toddlers.
It's horrifying to think of someone wearing cat or dog fur or using it for products, but there are countries all over the world who do it--Canada included. The nation allows the import of both domestic cat and dog fur, and for the fur to be sold as pelts alongside those of seals. The Canadian government heavily relies on the sale of baby seal fur, and they don't want anything to jeopardize that--including restrictions on dog and cat fur.
Cat owners are constantly trying to keep their cats off tables, countertops and stoves. Why would anyone want feet that have been digging through a litter box where they cook and eat, after all? It turns out there's another reason why we need to make this our goal: cats start a lot of fires. According to officials in South Korea, cats have caused over 100 house fires there alone.
Cafe Meow is such a hit in Minneapolis that the cafe is expanding with a bigger cafe in New Hope this spring. Cafe Meow has been in operation since 2018 and its model of a coffee shop adjacent to a cat adoption center is working out splendidly. Folks love to come get a drink or bite and visit the cats next door, and cats get adopted from loving coffee and tea lovers in the process.
More and more studies are leaning toward the fact that cats are little psychopaths who would love nothing better than to trip their owners while going down the stairs. But is this true? We've talked a lot about it here at Cat Talk, and while I like to defend them, scientists are now saying that domestic cats are absolutely little psychopaths.
Several cities have been outlawing the cruel practice of elective cat declawing, and Madison, Wisconsin just added themselves to the list. This is so important because declawing cats doesn't just strip them of any protection they have should they ever get lost or abandoned by their owner, it's also incredibly painful for the animals.
If you search for cat videos this week, you might find some nefarious information. And that's just one of the many weird cat stories in the news this week! Apparently videos and photos of cute cats are being used to spread misinformation online by various groups of people, so beware if that cat flushing a toilet is captioned with some conspiracy theory.
