Cats

Friday Catblogging: High-Fiving Cats

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/21/2019 • Comments

Hep the Hepcat (December 1946)

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/14/2019 • Comments

From the Library of Congress: Caption from Down Beat: Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork [orchestra] during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn’t open in the afternoon!…

Cats, Conservation, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Lion Relocation

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/07/2019 • Comments

John Adams on Twitter How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off https://t.co/5KvE5wiUMz via @NatGeo Paul Steyn reports How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off: When he [Jorge Thozo, chief of the Thozo community] was a child, numerous prides of lions roamed the game-rich wetlands of the Zambezi Delta. But their numbers…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: How Cats Use Their Whiskers

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/31/2019 • Comments

Cats, History, Military

Friday Catblogging: ‘Treat ’em rough – Join the tanks – United States Tank Corps’

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/24/2019 • Comments

From the Library of Congress, a First World War American recruiting poster shows a black cat with prominent fangs and claws leaping above a battlefield with tanks.

Cats, Science/Nature, UW Madison

Friday Catblogging: UW-Madison Students Design New Back Legs for Injured Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/17/2019 • Comments

Best wishes to all.

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Top Domesticated Cat Breeds

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/10/2019 • Comments

Cats

Friday Catblogging: How To Properly Introduce Yourself To A Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/03/2019 • Comments

Cats, Faraway Places, Good Ideas

The Lanai Cat Sanctuary

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/26/2019 • Comments

Hawaii may seem a paradise, but even within that wonderland there’s a cat paradise: Although he regularly greets guests at the Lanai Cat Sanctuary, Keoni Vaughn will never forget one passionate visitor who showed up a couple of years ago. “He came to the cat sanctuary … from Japan to spend the day with us…

Animals, Cats, Nature

Friday Catbloging: A Bobcat Tries a Different Hunting Strategy to Catch a Duck

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/19/2019 • Comments

Cats

Friday Cat Blogging: Happy Cat Sanctuary

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/12/2019 • Comments

Chris Arsenault started rescuing cats in 2006 after his 24-year-old son Eric tragically lost his life in a motorcycle accident caused by a stuck throttle. After this huge loss, Chris accidentally came across a cat colony of 30 sick and nursing kittens. Chris decided to remove all the kittens from the colony and nurse…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: They Know (They’re Just Not Interested Right Now)

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/05/2019 • Comments

Malcolm Ritter reports Now there’s scientific proof that your cat is just ignoring you: Hey Kitty! Yes, you. A new study suggests household cats can respond to the sound of their own names. No surprise to you or most cat owners, right? But Japanese scientists said Thursday that they’ve provided the first experimental evidence that…

Cats, Photography, Science/Nature

Fridat Catblogging: Why a cat [almost] always lands on its feet

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/29/2019 • Comments

Cats, Cooking

Friday Catblogging: Cats & Cooking

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/22/2019 • Comments

Teddy Amenabar reports on a happy online development in Cats and cooking. Here’s a YouTube channel that combines two cornerstones of the site: The Internet as we know it began with cats: Their keyboards, their rainbows, those pearly black eyes. Cats are the Internet. So while videos of cats on YouTube are not a new concept, cooking with them…