Olivia Munson writes Is it OK to feed your cat bananas? What to know before feeding your cat the fruit: Yes, cats can eat bananas. But just like any other human food, be careful feeding your feline the fruit. While bananas are not inherently bad for your cat, they’re not that great either. Bananas have…
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Friday Catblogging: Mealtime for Feral Japanese Cats
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Friday Catblogging: Oops
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Friday Catblogging: How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off?
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Embed from Getty Images Hannah Keyser writes How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off? (‘Here’s a hint: It’s not by sweating through their paws’): Conduction allows cats to cool themselves off or warm themselves up via contact with objects of a different temperature. This is why you can often find your cat seeking out cool kitchen…
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Friday Catblogging: They’re Crepuscular
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Kate Underwood answers the question Are Felines Nocturnal?: It’s a common response for cat owners to believe their cats are nocturnal, and that’s why they keep odd hours. However, nocturnal is not the correct term for domestic cats. There are three terms for the time of day when an animal is the most active: nocturnal,…
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Friday Catblogging: Cat Noses
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Tanya Lewis writes Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells (‘Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function like a gas chromatograph’): Researchers created a computational model of a cat’s nose based on computed tomography scans and tissue slices from a deceased house cat whose body was donated for…
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Friday Catblogging: Baboons Wisely Avoid Lions
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Friday Catblogging: Maine Coon Meets Persian Kitten
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Friday Catblogging: Ukrainian Cat Rescued
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Friday Catblogging: Max the Cat Tries Ice Cream, and He’s Not Sure About It
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Friday Catblogging: Riding in Style
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Friday Catblogging: The View from a Tree
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Daily Bread for 5.13.23: When Domestic Cats Had Their Own Constellation
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:33 AM and sunset 8:09 PM for 14h 35m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, the USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines…
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Friday Catblogging: The Best Way of Getting a Cat’s Attention
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Embed from Getty Images Rachael Funnell writes This Is The Best Way to Get A Cat’s Attention According to Science: With the help of 18 domestic cats (8 females, 10 males) with a job history of at least three years in a cat café, experimenters tried four different approaches to getting a cat’s attention:…