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My cat with Bubbles
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYNI8gPLA8
Just made this video with my new camera to see what it could it.. its with my cat playing with bubbles..
Do you have any videos of your pets ?
Just made this video with my new camera to see what it could it.. its with my cat playing with bubbles..
Do you have any videos of your pets ?
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Though i must say i really do wish people wouldn't put collars on their cats, it's cruel in my opinion.
It must be absolute torcher for the poor thing and could be dangerous if it becomes entangled with something. Imagine having a bell ringing in your ear everytime you move?
Cat's are wild animals and will kill every now and again, i don't see the problem with that.
Her sister won't have one on at all, and as she doesn't hunt, we don't force her to wear one !
Still, suppose it's refreshing to see someone in this section actually realising that cats are merely animals
Actually there's some debate as to whether cats are really domesticated in the true sense of the word. They are not bred for food nor do they have any functionality for humans (other than as pets) and they can very easily revert to their "wild" state & fend for themselves.
Even if cats are "provided with copious amounts of tune etc by their doting owners" this doesn't detract from the fact the biologically hard-wired predatory behaviour has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years whilst humans have only been providing cats with food irregularly over the last few hundred years. The very real need to practice predatory behaviour is an evolutionary survival technique as cats are small solitary predators ~ in the wild, if they can't hunt & kill, they would starve (unlike packs of wild dogs/wolves that can share the larger prey that a pack can bring down).
Just because our pet cats are now provided with food by their owners won't stop them hunting & killing. Research has shown that hunting/killing behaviour & consummatory behaviour are governed by different physiological processes so even when cats have just killed something, they would stop eating to chase & kill another prey item if it passed by. This applies to large felines like leopards as well as our pet cats.
Predatory behaviour in pet cats is not something they can stop themselves doing & it is very difficult for owners to prevent the odd bird or small rodent being killed unless they confine their cats to an indoor life. We all try our best in various ways such as keeping the cats indoors at dawn & dusk, making sure they have had food before they go out to reduce the motivation to start huntin, or by putting a collar & bell on the cat. But even all these precautions won't necessarily prevent cats from catching prey now & again.
It certainly works. When was the last time you heard of a cat killing a tuna?
If you bothered to read it without your hurt ego getting in the way it was actually very good
Thank you malaikah. Perhaps I should have left him in blissful ignorance!