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This is a Dutch rig; a bike chariot as the owner (Saartje - @LifeOfSaartje) describes it. She (I think she is female) says on Twitter: 'Living the indoor cat life. Travels by bike chariot regularly to play and sleep with my friends, furboys Henk & Karel'.  Cat bike chariot (cat transportation plus mental stimulation) Not sure why she travels with her cat to see two others both male. Maybe she is just being friendly and social. Perhaps she has a friend not too far away and she decided to travel to her and take her cat with her. That's a good idea if (as is the case) the cat is a full-time indoor cat. The cat gets plenty of safe outdoor mental stimulation. Jackson Galaxy calls it cat mojo; tapping in to the wild cat within. Saartje (the cat) is a tabby. Her chums are a ginger and white and another tabby. The outstanding part of the story is the cat bike chariot! Cool. Link to her Twitter page .

The question is a little outlandish because clearly jaguarundi reproduce like any other cat or indeed human as they are mammals; they mate and become pregnant and then give birth. I won't bother to repeat the whole process but I will discuss briefly the reproduction and development of jaguarundi.  Photo by jindrich_photographe on 500px. This is a quite a mean looking cat. It has been suggested (i.e. as at 2002 the scientists were uncertain) that jaguarundis have no breeding season in the tropics, Texas or Mexico but they might have two breeding seasons annually in Mexico or a single breeding season in the fall in the northern part of their range according to my book on the wild cat species namely Wild Cats of the World . In captivity there have been births in January, June and August through to October. Observations of captive jaguarundi indicate that the period of heat i.e. oestrus is short at about three or five days and that the oestrus cycle lasts for about 53 days. During sexu

Jane Goodall is the world-famous primatologist and anthropologist who lived with apes and understands them. Her voice is a powerful one. Writing on the Slate.com website (APRIL 06, 2020) she said that Covid-19 should make us rethink our destructive relationship with the natural world. Humankind needs to chart another way forward. The pandemic which has stricken the world should make humanity rethink its relationship with the natural world. Jane Goodall. Collage: PoC. Photos in public domain. It is long overdue as far as I am concerned. You won't be able to make a change through voluntary action. It will have to be forced upon people and encouraged by offering alternatives to bush meat and to making money out of trafficking while animal parts. ASSOCIATED:  Statement of Jane Goodall about the killing of Cecil the lion More than half the diseases that have emerged since 1960 were caused by disease spreading from wild animals. As I said, you would have thought that we would have learn

Well, the title comes directly from Reddit.com. I kept it intact because I think it's good and the first response that comes to my mind is that there are no ugly cats. I say that even though I have a page on one of my websites in which I show some 'ugly cats '. I defend the cats and the page was written some time ago. I disagree with it now. It's unfair to call cats ugly. We judge appearance by human standards and use stereotypes to do this. Leo described as ugly. He is not. Photo: Reddit.com You can't apply those stereotypes to cats. They are sentient creatures and you have to look at the character as more important than the appearance. And if a domestic cat is physically ugly by human standards it can only be because the cat was selectively bred to extreme by a cat breeder who has screwed up and created a cat with an undershot jaw or bulging eyes because they did a very bad job of artificial selection. So, it's a human fault. Or the cat might have been involve

Gray ('grey' in the UK) and white cats are called 'bicolor cats' (two colour cats: gray or another color and white!). Sometimes people refer them as 'solid and white'. Solid and white applies to all colours and to shorthair and longhair cats. Gray and white describes a cat coat type not a cat breed. Many cat breeds are allowed under breed standards to have gray and white coats such as the Scottish Fold shown below. Gray and white cat which happens to be a Scottish Fold but the coat applies to any cat, purebred or moggie. Photo in the public domain.

To me, this looks unusual and it is the first time that I have seen it. Mother is nursing her kittens. That is completely normal and we see it many times on the Internet in videos. While she is nursing the father of the kittens is kneading her side (her flank). Why is he doing this? It's a tricky question. You could almost believe that he is doing it for the same reason that the kittens are doing it which is to encourage the flow of colostrum for the kittens' benefit. Kittens knead their mother's breast to encourage the flow of milk. But I think he believes that he is a kitten feeding at his mother's breast. He has got that thought in watching his kittens doing it! He may be doing it for a different reason. We know that domestic cats knead their human caregivers. They do it all the time or they do it on clothes or bedclothes which smell of their human caregiver. It is an example of how people keep their adult cats in a permanent state of kittenhood. It may be the fact t

A study published in 2015 titled Determinants of Choice and outcomes for adult cats and kittens adopted from an Australian animal shelter found that the top three reasons for adopting a cat from an animal shelter are ( 1 ) it was the right thing to do and ( 2 ) they wanted to help the shelter and ( 3 ) they believed that the shelter was a trusted and a credible option. The remaining 13 reasons are listed below in a chart and in words: The shelter provided cats and kittens which are sterilised, vaccinated and micro-chipped. It was also convenient to get to the shelter because their opening hours were suitable. Another reason is that they had checked perhaps online and wanted a particular kitten at a shelter. They also wanted after adoption support and they found that shelter cats and kittens were good value. They also believed that a shelter provided lots of choice and that they were convenient to get to. Some had already adopted from a shelter and they were happy with the experience w

There is a study online on the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science dated 2009 entitled Admissions of Cats to Animal Welfare Shelters in Melbourne, Australia ( link ). It paints a picture of poor-quality cat ownership in Melbourne Australia and I will tell you why. Stray cat Australia. Photo in the public domain The scientists investigated what was going on at one large Melbourne shelter over a 12-month period. In the abstract to the report, they don't tell us the name of the shelter. But they say that they tracked 15,206 cat admissions. They found that 81.6% of the admitted cats were strays. That means they were unowned but were likely to be previously owned. They had wandered away from the home and nobody had taken a blind notice. They also found that only 4% of the cats coming in that year were sterilised. I'll restate that, only 4/100 cats admitted to this shelter had been either spayed or neutered. That is highly indicative of poor cat ownership. And if the cat w

Proxima is the jaguar that Frank Wolff adopted as a pet in the Disney film Jungle Cruise. People ask if 'the tiger died' in the film. There is no tiger in the film, just the jaguar which is also a big cat found in Central and South America in diminishing numbers. Proxima survives and accompanies Frank and the Houghtons on their journey to civilisation and London at the end of the film. You'll find no reference to a tiger in all the synopses of this film. In fact, they don't even mention a cat except the Disney fandom website, the source of this information. Here is Proxima:  Jaguar in the 2021 Disney live-action film, Jungle Cruise