Cats

Friday Catblogging: 7 Sounds Cats Make and What They Mean

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/25/2018 • Comments

Friday Catbloging: Tiger & Toy

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/18/2018 • Comments

Friday Catblogging: Jaguars

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/11/2018 • Comments

Nadia Drake observes that The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans (“A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss”): The Ese’Eja, indigenous to this area of Peru, say that the jaguar only shows himself to…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Pepper the JFK Airport Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/04/2018 • Comments

Animals, Cats, Conservation, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Can Humans and Lions Get Along?

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/27/2018 • Comments

“Lions are really causing us havoc,” laments an African pastoralist in Nani Walker and Alan Toth’s short documentary, Living with Lions. The film chronicles the conflict between lions and humans in Laikipia County, Kenya, where drought and urbanization have pushed people and wildlife into closer contact. Conservationists attempt to mitigate the encounters, which often begin…

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Friday Catblogging: Chicago’s Puff The Magic Kitty

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/20/2018 • Comments

From Chicago, it’s Puff the Magic Kitty: Puff comin’ yo. pic.twitter.com/n5WsCPdEmB — A Cat Named Bitches (@BitchestheCat) April 19, 2018 (@PuffMagicKitty: “Rescued from a feral colony. New money. Puff puff cat. From a land called Chi-City. Embedded in the #purrsistance with @lbkiddoshow and @Bitchesthecat.”)

Cats, Crime

Friday Catblogging: Former State Trooper Accused of Harassing People, Killing Cats

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/13/2018 • Comments

A sad story today, about a former state trooper accused of killing cats and using the dead animals to harass a former neighbor: PORTAGE, Wis. — A retired Wisconsin state trooper is accused of killing neighborhood cats that were stalking his bird feeder and dumping the carcasses in the yard of a former neighbor. Portage…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Bodega Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/06/2018 • Comments

pic.twitter.com/r6BWXafrhi — Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) April 5, 2018

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Cheetah Climbs Into SUV During Safari Trip

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/30/2018 • Comments

Cats, Humor

Friday Catblogging: Watching a Horror Film?

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/23/2018 • Comments

Whether this cat is truly watching a horror film, or instead if the video has a dubbed horror-film soundtrack, either way the result is clever & captivating.

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Being Kind to a Cat

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/16/2018 • Comments

In the video below, a cat owner describes ways to show affection that a cat will understand. They’re good ideas, but some cats will like some of these ways more than others – your cat’s mileage may vary.

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Big Cats in Small Spaces

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/09/2018 • Comments

Even big cats like boxes — i cannot believe "if it fits, i sits" transcends boundaries in this way pic.twitter.com/x9v73TRoDZ — Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) March 7, 2018

Cats

Friday Catblogging: The Turkish Van

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/02/2018 • Comments

Here are six facts about Vans that will have even the staunchest members of #TeamDog donating all of their money to a Turkish cat conservation clinic, probably. 1. They are striking in appearance. Turkish Vans have medium-to-long, silky white hair with just the occasional spot of color — which only appears on the head or the tail due to…

Animals, Cats, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Suspected Poacher Eaten By Lions In South Africa

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/23/2018 • Comments

Embed from Getty Images Merrit Kennedy reports how a poacher met his end: South African police say a suspected poacher was eaten by a pride of lions at a big game park in the province of Limpopo. The animals “ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains,” Limpopo…