The animals we humans have domesticated have evolved and adapted in response to their new niches in a human-devised milieu. The cluster of traits and adaptations peculiar to domestic animals is suggested to constitute a "domestication syndrome."
Newly published research has confirmed and...
I could not find a good thread to post this. Mods: you may merge it if appropriate.
https://www.nu.nl/opmerkelijk/6153732/kat-overleeft-52-dagen-in-leegstaande-woning-in-schiedam.html
Cat survives 52 days in a vacant house in Schiedam
During their first visit to the house, the brand new...
There doesn't seem to be a general purpose thread for scary noises and spooky sounds, so here's one.
Mods, if there's a better place for this, please feel free to move it.
Tonight, I needed to go down to the nearest shop. It was about 11 PM, just before closing time. It was cold, windy and...
Dunno if this should be on the cryptozoology page or not, but what the hell...
Anyway, I heard a long time ago (don't know if it was a book, TV show or what) that the reason why there appear to be two varieties of domestic tabby cat - one with a stripy, 'tigerish' pattern to its coat, the...
When I was 15/16 years old and still leaving at home I had some strange experiances with noise's.
My mum would pop down the local tennents association 3 nights a week to play bingo leaving me alone in our flat with our 3 cats.My cats have this annoying habit of getting in the litter tray which...
We "adopted" two kittens in October, 2003: one gray and white (but not striped) about 9 weeks old and the other a Siamese-looking, blue-eyed sweetie who is probably of mixed heritage who was about 10 weeks old at the time.
Right from the first day at our house, the Siamese, named Ursula...
To all:
Reports of anomalous felines seem to be fairly common on the Fortean Times website, now. There is, for example, the section devoted to the Anomalous Big Cats in the British Isles, and the mysterious leopard or jaguar type big cat near Olinda, on Maui. On June 16, in Clarks...
OK, is it true that people steal pet cats in order to make gloves? I remember the last alledged speight of "kit"-nappings happening about 12 years ago when my sister's cat (who later returned) was missing for a couple of days. Someone said to her "You've got to watch out - there's people...
Is this a cat too far?
This is Alby, a moggie equivalent of a sausage dog.
The short-legged puss is one of a bizarre breed named Munchkins and is the first to arrive in Britain.
Yesterday he was at the centre of a storm as cat welfare groups branded the breed “deformed and freakish”...
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