Cats

Friday Catblogging: Rare Scottish Wildcats

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/08/2021 • Comments

From 2018, a video about rare Scottish wildcats —

Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/01/2021 • Comments

[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps the plant repel insects. But this research takes us further into the evolution of nepetalactone using genetic analysis. According to study co-author Benjamin Lichman, a…

Cats, Holiday

Friday Catblogging: Jingle Cats, We Wish You a Merry Christmas

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/25/2020 • Comments

America, Cats, History, Military

Friday Catblogging: Heroic Military Cats

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/18/2020 • Comments

Jackie Mead writes of 6 Heroic Military Cats. Among those admirable felines was the U.S. Navy tabby Princess Papule: Striped tabby Princess Papule was born on July 4, 1944, at the Pearl Harbor Navy Base in Hawaii. Pooli, as she was known to the sailors, was brought aboard the attack transport USS Fremont by crewman James Lynch.…

Cats, Music

Friday Catblogging: Kitten Cam Translates Meows into Saxophone Sounds

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/11/2020 • Comments

David Pescovitz writes Live kitten cam with meows transformed into saxophone sounds: Jazz Cats is a live kitten cam in which the meows are changed into saxophone sounds. The software behind the sound is Imitone, pitch-to-MIDI software that translates the notes that you (or the cats) sing into the sound of any digital instrument. When…

America, Cats, Good Ideas

Friday Catblogging: A Cat in the White House

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/04/2020 • Comments

Allyson Waller reports Once again, a cat is set to join the ranks of presidential pets: When he was running for president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. said it was time for a pet to be put back in the White House. First it was announced that Champ and Major, the German shepherds belonging to the…

Animals, Cats, Nature

Friday Catblogging: How Lions See & Hunt at Night

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/27/2020 • Comments

Cats, Technology, Weird Tales

Friday Catblogging: An App to Translate Cats’ Meows

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/20/2020 • Comments

A former Amazon engineer says he created an app to translate cats’ meows. How well this works – if at all – one can only guess. It’s a high-tech tech effort to make everyone his or her own Dr. Doolittle.

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Big Cat with a Tiny Meow

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/13/2020 • Comments

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Mikey Denies It All

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/06/2020 • Comments

@mikeymomentsHe really said “noth-ing” ?? he’s always looking for treats! ##fyp ##foryou ##catsoftiktok ##cats ##mikey? original sound – Mikeymoments

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Cat Successfully Leaps from Burning Building

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/30/2020 • Comments

In New York, a cat leapt from a burning second-story apartment, a bit singed but now recovering — Amazing video of a cat jumping out of a second floor window in East Harlem Saturday. Police responded to a domestic dispute at Lincoln Houses where they say man locked himself inside apartment & set it on…

Archaeology, Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: Cat Geoglyph Found Among Nazca Lines

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/23/2020 • Comments

Sam Jones reports Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru: The dun sands of southern Peru, etched centuries ago with geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, an orca – and a figure some would dearly love to believe is an astronaut – have now revealed the form of an enormous cat…

Cats, Nature

Friday Catblogging: A Cougar in Utah

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/16/2020 • Comments

Anastasia Tsioulcas reports Man Escapes Cougar: ‘Dude, I Don’t Feel Like Dying Today’: Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Burgess was on a 10-mile run on Saturday up Slate Canyon in Provo, Utah. He told the Deseret News that when he saw four cougar cubs on the trail, he took out his phone and started filming. But when Burgess…

Accidents, Cats

Friday Catblogging: A Bike-Touring Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/09/2020 • Comments

Jessica Coulton of Bicycling writes of An Internet-Famous Bike-Touring Cat? Read All About Her in ‘Nala’s World’: Even over video chat, it was clear to see the depth of the bond between Nala the cat and her owner, Dean Nicholson. Nala’s tail flicked in and out of the video-chat window, and every time she walked in…