See One man, eight years, nearly 20,000 cat videos, and not a single viral hit (‘How an animal lover’s hobby of recording himself feeding stray cats exemplifies the glory of the anonymous web’) and from 4.3.20, Cats in Japan Dine by the Water.
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Books, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat Guru Explains What Cats Mean When They Meow
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Kenji Hall writes What does your cat mean by ‘miaow’? Let Japan’s pet guru Yuki Hattori explain: In Japan – where they take their cats very seriously – they call Yuki Hattori the Cat Saviour. He is so popular that he saw 16,000 patients last year, and crowds regularly queue up to hear him talk about…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Snow Leopard Cub Explores Habitat at Brookfield, Illinois Zoo
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Santa Monica Mountains Are Experiencing a ‘Summer of Kittens’
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The National Park Service writes The Santa Monica Mountains Are Experiencing a “Summer of Kittens”: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.— It’s been one mountain lion kitten den after another this summer for National Park Service biologists in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills. In total, 13 kittens were born to five mountain lion mothers between May…
Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Woman Accidentally Dyes Her Cat Yellow with Turmeric Treatment
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Morgan Smith reports that Thammapa Supamas, a woman living in Thailand, accidentally dyed her cat yellow while treating a fungal infection on the pet’s limbs: Supamas applied a turmeric scrub to heal a red, irritated patch of skin on the white cat’s leg, she shared on Facebook. The plant extract has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Meet The Amazing Acro-Cats
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Cats, Good Ideas, Music
Friday Catblogging: Violin for Cats
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: A Shoe-Stealing Cat
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Cats, Coronavirus
Friday Catblogging: A Cat Cafe During the Pandemic
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Embedded above is a video about the Neko Cat Cafe in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The pandemic’s led to changes at the establishment. Gabe Gurarante writes The Cats at Capitol Hill’s Temporarily Closed Neko Cafe Basically Run the Place Now: Even though Capitol Hill’s cat cafe Neko has been temporarily closed for months due to…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Black-Footed Cats
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Alysia Gray Painter reports Black-Footed Kittens Thriving at Safari Park: Black-footed cats are among “the world’s smallest cats,” with an adult weight ranging between two and three pounds. That means at birth a kitten will rock the scale at a few ounces, making these wee and wild ones truly extraordinary animals.
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Lion Pride Drinks
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat in China Clings to Rescuer’s Leg
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Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cats Along the Silk Road
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Science Magazine has an article asking readers Care For Cats? So Did People Along The Silk Road More Than 1,000 Years Ago: Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more than 1,000 years ago. This has been indicated by new analyses done on an almost complete cat skeleton…
Architecture, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat Tower Project
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Ekta Joshi writes This Japanese firm has created a functional four story luxury building for cats: If you’re a cat parent and don’t mind pampering your furball silly, here’s what you need to lay your eyes on! The ultimate play toy cum lounge for your kitty – we’re talking about the mega-luxe “cat tower mansion”…