Last week we saw a story on cat armor, and we came away very impressed. The first part we don’t know very much about: A guy named Jawall at Thingverse decided to make armor for his cat Bobo using 3D printing. What’s 3D printing? Who the hell knows! It involves computers, lots of them. “Once …
Cats rarely ever vocalize to communicate with other cats. They use their voice mostly for the benefit of humans, who by and large are too stupid to understand “cat-ese,” the subtle language of tail twitches, ear positions, facial expressions, and body contortions. I’ve written about the array of different types of vocalizations, but now it’s …
In an essay from Alarms and Discursions (1910), G.K. Chesterton lamented that, as far as he could discern, “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” Thankfully, kittens and cats have been far more reliable as poetic muses. Poems about cats experienced a surge in popularity between the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660 …
Many months ago I worked on a case that will haunt me for a while. A cat was brought to my office with a two-hour history of respiratory distress. I could tell within moments that the cat was not going to make it. The cat was an 11-year-old Maine Coon mix. She lived indoors and …
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When it comes to cats who have cultivated a strong social media following, the Netherlands-based Zappa is top notch. It’s hard not to become immediately enchanted by this beautiful all-white female once you stumble across her Instagram account, especially as it brims with pictures of her smooshing into glass bowls for naps, indulging in fancy …
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