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With great power comes great responsibility (opens the original)
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The internet is teeming with ‘funny’ cat videos, with some getting hundreds, or even thousands, of comments. In some of these, people “play” with cats who are visibly distressed - swatting, ears flattened back, struggling to break free from a tight hold, or violently thrashing their tails. Neither the people sharing these videos nor most of the commenters are deterred, and the interactions are perceived as funny or typical of life with cats. But what if only the human is playing? A recent study<
For the love of cats (Part II) (opens the original)
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Are multi-cat households really stressful for cats or have we been oversimplifying feline social lives for years? In this second installment of For the love of cats, veterinarian and cat welfare scientist Dr. Claire Roberts challenges some of the most persistent assumptions about cats: that they’re inherently solitary, that more cats automatically means more problems, and that headlines always tell the full story. From surprising research on multi-cat homes to the overlooked lives of UK farm cat
For the love of cats (Part I) (opens the original)
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What happens when a veterinarian realizes that understanding cats means understanding humans first? In this thoughtful first installment of For the love of cats, Dr. Claire Roberts — veterinarian, feline welfare scientist at Cats Protection, and creator of That Darn Cat Scientist — shares her path from clinical practice to cat welfare research, why popular culture so often gets cats wrong, and what questions animal welfare science urgently needs us to ask about breeding, behavior, and the choice
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