Every year on August 8th, countries worldwide (apart from Russia, apparently) take a full day to appreciate our feline friends. As our editorial team loves their pets very dearly, we thought we’d take the opportunity to share some animals that are in need of forever homes.
Can animals predict natural disasters? Lots of anecdotal evidence exists to suggest they can, with plenty of people claiming that their dogs or cats behaved erratically just prior to an earthquake. However, despite plenty of claims, a recent study suggests that animals have no real predictive ability when it comes earthquakes. The study, which was …
If you were to walk up to a friend in public and show each other your bare butts, you’d probably get a lot of very strange looks from the rest of the people in the Starbucks line. If you were a cat, however, people would probably just roll their eyes and accept that cats just …
Everyone knows that Australia is absolutely packed with strange, wild creatures that could kill you at a moment’s notice, but if you’re a bird your number one enemy is still a familiar one: cats. According to a new study, both domestic and feral cats are on a murder spree in Australia, killing as many as …
When you consider the sheer number of domestic cats prowling living rooms, back yards, and barns around the world — estimated to be in the hundreds of millions — it’s pretty wild to think that scientists still aren’t completely positive how they came to be, or exactly where they came from. A new large-scale study …
Cats bring us — “us” being the people who like them, of course — a lot of joy, but rarely do we ever consider exactly how they think. They chase laser pointers and get moody a lot, but why? A team of researchers in Japan decided to investigate exactly how cats process their memories to get …
Ever wished to make your pet ostrich fly? Well, first of all, that’s an odd pet choice. But there’s a way of giving it wings if you still want to do it, though it’s a bittersweet victory: you’ll first have to wait for it to die.
It’s not just cat videos that can go viral on the web. Merely telling cat stories can be equally entertaining, and there’s one such story that took the Internet by storm. The tale actually details a cat experiment gone seriously wrong, which is probably why it’s going viral. Someone tried to put a matter to …
As remarkable as it might be, ballet isn’t for just anybody. I’ve seen Black Swan. I know it takes years of practice and plenty of sacrifice to master it. If you’re a human, that is. If you’re a cat, it probably comes natural to you, and you can do ballet whenever you like. At least …
There’s an old joke that says no one ever goes out of their way to own a cat. People might find one lurking around outside their house and decide to keep it out of pity, but no one really exerts much of an effort to become a cat owner.
