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Friday Catblogging: They’re Only Misunderstood

Embed from Getty Images Colleen Grablick reports Cats aren’t jerks. They’re just misunderstood (‘Feline researchers say many cats are quite social. Yours might even want to learn a few tricks): Monique Udell is the director of the Human-Animal Interaction Lab at Oregon State University, which has been investigating the social potential of domestic cats. According…

Friday Catblogging: Paying Library Fines with Cat Photos

Embed from Getty Images Vinay Menon writes Paying library fines with cat photos? It’s a purr-fect (sorry!) way to encourage literacy: But since even paltry fines may prove too much for some forgetful bookworms, the Worcester Public Library has just purred out a revolutionary idea: now you can pay for overdue, lost or damaged items…

Friday Catblogging: Curious Cat Offers Help to First Responders

Jennifer McRae reports Curious cat tries to help first responders at crash, hazmat spill on I-25 in Colorado: An orange tabby cat wandered onto the crash scene and hazmat spill on Interstate 25 in Douglas County [Colorado] on Thursday morning. Three people were hurt in the crash in the northbound lanes of I-25 at Happy…

Friday Catblogging: Stay Out of the Lion Enclosure

Embed from Getty Images Mary Walrath-Holdridge reports Man mauled to death after jumping into lion enclosure in India to take a selfie: A zoo-goer in India is dead after scaling a lion enclosure in hopes of taking a selfie, according to multiple reports. The man, 34-year-old Prahlad Gurjar of the Alwar District in northern India,…

Friday Catblogging: They Know It’s You

Embed from Getty Images Nicola Davis reports Big cats can tell apart known and unknown human voices, study finds (‘Tigers, cheetahs and snow leopards, like domesticated cats, respond differently to familiar and unfamiliar voices’): From tigers to cheetahs, big cats may seem majestically aloof but researchers have found they can tell apart familiar and unfamiliar…

Friday Catblogging: Lions v. Ants

Embed from Getty Images Kyle Melnick reports In Kenya, the king of the jungle faces a new challenge — ants (‘Researchers said big-headed ants started an “ecological chain reaction” in a Kenya conservancy, impacting lions and other animals’): Lions have long stood atop the food chain, but now a new enemy has forced the dominant…

Friday Catblogging: Feline ASMR

Via Camera Loving Cat Loudly Crunches on Treats (‘A little cat named Luna stared right into the camera and loudly crunched down on some yummy treats as her human filmed her noisy ASMR snacktime’).

Friday Catblogging: The World’s Deadliest Cat

    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Hogle Zoo (@hoglezoo) Justine McDaniel reports The world’s deadliest cat is deceptively cute. Meet Gaia: She weighs less than three pounds, she makes you go aww, and she’s one of the best killers on the planet. Gaia, an 8-month-old black-footed cat, is the…

Friday Catblogging: Strange-Looking Cats in Art

Artnet News has a story online entitled Meow No! 7 Paintings by Artists Who Have Probably Never Seen a Cat: Our feline friends may now be the toast of the internet and social media, but they have also long served as subjects and inspirations to artists all the way back to the Middle Ages. Renoir…

Friday Catblogging: Space-Transmission Cat

?Justine McDaniel reports Taters the cat stars in NASA’s first video streamed from deep space: On the path to Mars, nearly 19 million miles from Earth, Taters the cat got his big break. The orange tabby starred in the first video streamed from deep space, a successful NASA experiment that marked a milestone for advancing…