Even more than a century before the cats dominated the Internet, photographers were already in love with our adorable furry friends and taking many photos of them. French photographer and filmmaker living in Paris, Mathieu Stern found about 120-year-old cat photos in a hidden time capsule in his old family home. He estimates the box dates to roughly the year 1900.
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If you have a dollar or two to spare, consider helping cats in Syria. Ernesto (also known as the Aleppo Catman, twitter: @theAleppoCatman) and his friends, the “Aleppo Catmen” are doing amazing work for cats.
Continue reading “Ernesto’s Sanctuary for Syrian Cats”A stray cat and a stray dog sleeping in the same kennel
Istanbul is really cold these days. There’s also heavy rain. Tonight, When I went out to deliver food to stray cats and dogs, I saw a stray dog and a stray cat was sleeping in the same kennel. They were so adorable. I took photos and videos of these beauties.
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Ebo is a smart robot companion for your cat. It is specifically designed to prevent loneliness and boredom of our furry friends while we’re not at home. It is a Kickstarter project. Ebo’s production status is 90 percent completed (as of November 30, 2019) and the shipping will probably be started in December 2019 (according to producers).
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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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