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Friday Catblogging: Monkey the Cat Works for His Supper

Wild cats hunt for their food, and one cat owner decided to recreate, in a way, the hunting experience for his cat. In the video below, Monkey the Cat fetches balls located around an apartment, and takes them to an automatic feeder that dispenses cat food when he retrieves a ball.

Friday Catblogging: “How Cats Took Over the Internet”

There’s a new exhibition in New York that recognizes the influence that cats have had in cyberspace: “For some reason, cats took off, and then it’s this avalanche that just sort of keeps piling up,” said Jason Eppink, the curator of “How Cats Took Over the Internet,” an exhibition that opens on Friday at the…

Friday Catblogging: Improving a Cat’s Exercise Wheel

Some cats, as though they were hamsters, use exercise wheels. (See, from 7.25.14, a video at FW on a particular wheel brand.) What happens, though, if the wheel breaks or wears down? Adam Savage of Tested shows how to improve a cat wheel’s performance:

Why Cats Seemingly Play with Their Prey

View image | gettyimages.com Every so often, someone will ask why cats seem to toy with their food.  Why not, after all, simply pounce for a quick kill? Applied animal behaviorist Dr. Karen London supplies an answer: ….A study done decades ago investigated the playful behavior that cats often exhibit with their prey. The scientist Maxeen…