Don’t play with your food!

food served to them—or more precisely, try to kill it before eating it. The predaceous instincts are so strong that even a very young kit...

Will they eat bugs?

Indeed they will. The human eye (and mind) draws a distinction between “higher animals” (mammals, birds, reptiles) and “just bugs,” but cats...

Eating what you kill

hunters : a good hunter eats what he kills—which means that you don’t kill for the sheer pleasure of killing, leaving a dead beast to lie a...

Hunting: nature or nurture?

mother cat living in the wild or on a farm will catch rodents or birds and, of course, bring them home to the kittens . But they won’t ea...

Attack!

natural cover (such as plants) for concealment. The closer to the prey, the slower the cat advances. When lying in wait, only the tip of ...

Playing with their food

death for several minutes. Many humans find this rather sadistic, but words like sadistic hardly apply to an animal that, by nature, catc...

The radiator bed

source of moist heat. Cats willingly sleep on top of any heat source that won’t actually burn them. This does not harm them, but it does ...