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Friday Catblogging: Can Cats Smile?

Claire Milroy asks Can cats smile? Yes, but not in the way you’d expect. Here’s what they’re trying to tell you: Cats do smile, but not in the way that humans do – while we bare a grin to show our happiness, cats smile with their teeth, says Marci Koski, a feline behavior and training…

Daily Bread for 4.29.23: Flying Siamese

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 7:53 PM for 14h 02m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 65.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Union forces under David Farragut capture New Orleans. A flock…

Friday Catblogging: The Unicorn

Erin Odell writes Meet Unicorn, the rare male calico kitten who landed at a Colorado rescue: An extremely rare male calico kitten born in a Weld County shed this year was turned over to the Weld County Humane Society and, ultimately, transferred into the care of NoCo Kitties, a foster-focused rescue based in Loveland, according…

Friday Catblogging: Cats Film Their Own Stunts

Amelia Nierenberg reports These Cats Do Their Own Stunts. They Film Them, Too. (‘With the help of cameras that attach to collars, a niche style of cat content shows the world from a feline perspective’): In one video, the athlete pauses, assesses the height and leaps. He tries to free-climb up the side of a…

Friday Catblogging: The Corsican ‘Cat-Fox’

For years, scientists have wondered if striped cats on Corsica were a distinct species: Turns out, they are: The elusive striped “cat-fox” familiar mostly to Corsican shepherds and as a source of intrigue to scientists, is indeed its own species specific to the French Mediterranean island, the French office for Biodiversity (OFB) announced Thursday. New…

Friday Catblogging: The Rusty-Spotted Cat

Jeyran Main writes of the Rusty-Spotted Cat: He may look like a kitten or even fit in the palm of your hand, but this little male is nearly fully grown. What he lacks in size he makes up for endearing. Young cats are born curious. It is how they learn about their world, even if…