Cats

Friday Catblogging: Marlin, the swimming, ocean-loving, boat-riding CAT that thinks he’s a DOG

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/16/2021 • Comments

Friday Catblogging: Baseball Fan

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/09/2021 • Comments

See Purr-fect game: Furry fan visits Coors.

Friday Catblogging: Dinner by the water

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/02/2021 • Comments

Friday Catblogging: Gary the Adventure Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/26/2021 • Comments

Friday Catblogging: Lions at Denver Zoo Frolic in Snow After Blizzard

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/19/2021 • Comments

Friday Catblogging: A Study on Cats & Milk Prebiotics

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/12/2021 • Comments

Lauren Quinn reports Milk prebiotics are the cat’s meow, research shows: If you haven’t been the parent or caregiver of an infant in recent years, you’d be forgiven for missing the human milk oligosaccharide trend in infant formulas. These complex carbohydrate supplements mimic human breast milk and act like prebiotics, boosting beneficial microbes in babies’ guts.…

Cats, Trains

Friday Catblogging: Cat on a Hot Train Roof

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/05/2021 • Comments

The BBC reports that a cat narrowly avoided disaster after being spotted on the roof of a train as it prepared to depart: The tabby was seen on an Avanti West Coast train at London Euston, about half an hour before it was due to leave for Manchester at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday. Passengers were transferred…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Sterling Davis, Defender of Cats

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/26/2021 • Comments

Meet Sterling Davis, the Cat Trap King of Atlanta. Coming from his own rough childhood, Sterling wanted to lend a hand to others that are abused and voiceless. He began working at a shelter and quickly fell in love with the stray cats in his neighborhood. His goal is to save cats and teach the…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Most Tricks Performed by a Cat in a Minute

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/19/2021 • Comments

19-year-old Anika and her feline friend Alexis.

Cats, Coronavirus

Friday Catblogging: A Tiger in Seattle

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/12/2021 • Comments

Malayan tiger Azul jumps into the spotlight today for her debut. She’s the first female Malayan tiger at our Zoo. In the future, we will introduce her to our male, Bumi, in the hope that they produce cubs. Read more at https://t.co/PQHNibd7cJ #TongueOutTuesday #EndangeredSpecies pic.twitter.com/h7d1mL76s7 — Woodland Park Zoo (@woodlandparkzoo) January 19, 2021 Without question,…

Cats, Games/Puzzles

Friday Catblogging: ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/05/2021 • Comments

Ewan Moore, writing at Gaming Bible, reports that Backpack-Wearing Cat Detective Simulator ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms. Moore, with an admirable sense of what matters most in the gaming scene, writes that Stray might genuinely be the only video game I care about anymore. Seriously. You can keep your sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Cat in Snow for First Time

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/29/2021 • Comments

Cats, Music, Weird Tales

Friday Catblogging: Did Mozart Like to Imitate Cats?

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/22/2021 • Comments

Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…

Cats, Natural Disasters, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Cat feared dead in 2018 California mudslide found alive

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/15/2021 • Comments

See Pet cat feared dead in 2018 California mudslide is found alive (‘Twenty-three people were killed in the mudslide, including the cat’s owner, Josie Gower’).