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Cats, Photography
Friday Catblogging: VR Kitten Meditation with Canon’s Dual Fisheye Lens
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Friday Catblogging: Cypriot Cats Battle Covid
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Embed from Getty Images Helena Smith reports Cyprus to begin treating island’s sick cats with anti-Covid pills: Veterinary services in Cyprus have received a first batch of anti-Covid pills, from a stockpile originally meant for humans, as efforts intensify to stop the spread of a virulent strain of feline coronavirus that has killed thousands of…
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Friday Catblogging: Can Cats Eat Bananas?
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Olivia Munson writes Is it OK to feed your cat bananas? What to know before feeding your cat the fruit: Yes, cats can eat bananas. But just like any other human food, be careful feeding your feline the fruit. While bananas are not inherently bad for your cat, they’re not that great either. Bananas have…
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Friday Catblogging: Mealtime for Feral Japanese Cats
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Friday Catblogging: Oops
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Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off?
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Embed from Getty Images Hannah Keyser writes How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off? (‘Here’s a hint: It’s not by sweating through their paws’): Conduction allows cats to cool themselves off or warm themselves up via contact with objects of a different temperature. This is why you can often find your cat seeking out cool kitchen…
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Friday Catblogging: They’re Crepuscular
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Kate Underwood answers the question Are Felines Nocturnal?: It’s a common response for cat owners to believe their cats are nocturnal, and that’s why they keep odd hours. However, nocturnal is not the correct term for domestic cats. There are three terms for the time of day when an animal is the most active: nocturnal,…
Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat Noses
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Tanya Lewis writes Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells (‘Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function like a gas chromatograph’): Researchers created a computational model of a cat’s nose based on computed tomography scans and tissue slices from a deceased house cat whose body was donated for…