Happy World Animal day! I shot these videos below today in Bahçeköy, İstanbul, Turkey. A giant Turkish Kangal dog, a pit bull and another dog are playing. They are all stray dogs and very good friends.
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Lauren Finka, Nottingham Trent University
Many of us will have experienced that super friendly cat who seems to love being stroked one minute, only to bite or swipe at us the next. It might be easy at this point to blame it on the cat, but what’s likely happening here is that we’re just not stroking them right.
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Why do cats purr? Humans tend to think that purring is a sign of happiness in a cat – and indeed it can be – but there are other reasons why our feline friends produce this particular vocalisation.
Purring is a habit that develops very early in a cat’s life, while suckling from its mother, so clearly it is not a sound that is directed solely at humans. Cat owners will be well aware that a cat can produce more than one kind of purr, just as they have a whole repertoire of meows, chirps, growls, spits and other sounds.
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Humans may have had pet cats for as long as 9,500 years. In 2004, archaeologists in Cyprus found a complete cat skeleton buried in a Stone Age village. Given that Cyprus has no native wildcats, the animal (or perhaps its ancestors) must have been brought to the island by humans all those millennia ago.
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My friends at the Bosphorus University (Turkish: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) found a stray cat and bottlefed him. Oh, those ears! He’s so precious.
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Sad news… Probably the Internet’s most famous cat, whose grumpiness brought joy to the whole world, the Grumpy Cat has died last Tuesday (on May 14, 2019). She was only seven years old.
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Cats and dogs fight all the time, right? No. Not necessarily. There is a certain breed of dogs that can get along well with your feline friends.
Good news for cat lovers who are looking into having canine friends as part of the family. It is possible to have them under one roof so long as certain considerations are made.
Do you want to know the best canine companion for your cat? Read on. Here are 10 dog breeds that are actually friendly to cats.
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Le Petit Ramoneur (Damvillers) is an 1883 painting by the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884). The name of the painting means “the little chimney sweeper” in English. In the painting, a little chimney sweep shares his hard-earned food with two adorable cats (a cat and a kitten). A very touching scene.
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The kinds of foods that you think cats may love or that may be healthy for them may not actually be safe for your cats. People have to be very careful about what human foods they give their feline friends, and I want to talk about some of the best people foods that you can safely feed your cat.
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A beautiful photo that was taken somewhere in Turkey. In a crowded train car, a cat is sitting on one of the seats while a lot of passengers are standing.
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