Tag: CAT

We hate to say it, but in the far-off future, we'll probably have managed to extinguish all non-human life on Earth. Furthermore, what if our descendants have nothing but video games to inform their ideas of what animals used to be? They'll think cats were snarky pests that inhabited embarrassingly ugly, three-dimensional landscapes. Or that hedgehogs were sneaker-clad hooligans with a penchant ...

Share Sometimes -- sometimes, mind you -- a person can learn valuable lessons from action movies. For instance, Sam Jackson informed us back in 1998 that a student of human behavior could tell whether or not somebody was lying by how he or she moved their eyes. Apparently, we weren't the only people listening. Researchers at the University of Utah are developing what they believe is the vanguard ...

Oscar the cat may have nine lives, but, until recently, he only had two feet. Earlier this year, during one of his ritualized field naps, Oscar had a run-in with a foot-swiping crop harvester, which left him bound to the litter box, unable to roll around with his favorite ball of yarn. After being taken to a local Jersey vet, Oscar was referred to Noel Fitzpatrick, a Surrey-based veterinary ...

Cats, like small children and Chinese contortionists, somehow find a way to get in the darndest of places. So how can a cat lover possibly hope to keep their kitties close to home? One man from Long Island has a solution. After realizing that his cat, KooKoo, had a worrisome tendency to disappear for days on end, Mark Spezio decided to take matters into his own hands, and outfitted his furry ...

Two Lawton, Oklahoma teens have been arrested in connection with the now-infamous YouTube videos that showed two cats being beaten and tortured. The two brothers, ages 14 and 16, are believed to be responsible for the videos and are facing charges of animal cruelty. As part of its coverage of the story, the local news station KSWO featured clips of one of the videos (both of which have been ...

We're not really sure why this is so interesting. It's no Puppy Cam, that's for sure, but Cooper, the Cat Photographer is oddly irresistible. Michael and Deidre Cross embarked on a project about a year ago in which they strapped a light-weight digital camera to neck of their orange tabby, Cooper, once a week. The camera snaps a new pic every two minutes and the Crosses post them on a blog and ...

Perhaps one of the most popular things to do on the Internet is upload and broadcast pictures of your beloved animals. Everything from pictures and videos to podcasts of pet shenanigans have found ample homes online. Unfortunately, the vast majority of pet sites are of the nausea-inducing "cute" variety. Since pets can induce hours of laughter (regardless of whether they're wearing Groucho ...

A Maryland sixth grader has combined her interest in animals with a healthy dollop of Web-page-building skills to build a site that matches cats, dogs and other animals that need homes with people who are looking to adopt the furry friends. Eleven-year-old Jennie Lupkin of Ijamsville, Md., went from matching pets at a local animal shelter with people placing requests on Craigslist but soon went ...

A Hungarian scientist has developed computer software that interprets the barks of a certain breed of Hungarian dog. This is exciting news, especially for so many dog owners who are convinced their pets are saying intricate and purposeful things whenever they bark. Turns out, they may be right. The software analyzes distinct barks that indicate the emotional state of the Hungarian Mudi herding ...

They claim there is a scientific purpose for their experiments, but to be honest with you, we can't quite figure out what that purpose may be. The South Korean scientists who created this pair of fluorescent felines claim that this breakthrough will help them study diseases and stem cells. We might not be biologists, but we're not really sure what the connection between AIDS and a cat that ...