What is it about, Cats ?

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Cats, cats... Pallas cat, thats the power :

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Unfortunately endagered and untameable....

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Caturday felid: Pallas cat

The Pallas cat (Otocolobus manul), or manul, is hands down my favorite wild felid. It’s about the size of a domestic cat but much stockier, is fluffy with a thick tail, has short ears, and is unbearably cute. Here’s one:

I love the racing stripes below the eyes.

Their thick fur and short ears tell you that manuls have to deal with extreme cold. Because they protrude, ears are heat radiators: that’s why you need earmuffs in winter. To conserve heat, natural selection has produced smaller ears in species that live in cold areas. (This regularity is called “Allen’s Rule” by evolutionists.) Manuls live in fact on the steppes of Asia; here’s their range (from Wikipedia):

You can see pictures of their natural habitat, and some photos of wild manuls in Mongolia, at the Pallas’ Cat Project. Since their habitat is remote and the cats are solitary and shy, we don’t know a lot about their biology. They live underground (in snow caves and abandoned animal burrows or in crevasses in the rocks) and are crepuscular or nocturnal hunters, eating small rodents, birds, and insectivores. Manuls used to be hunted for their beautiful fur, but are now protected. Several zoos have specimens. My favorite natural history book, Wild Cats of the World, by C. A. Guggisberg, says this about manuls:

According to Stroganov, Pallas’s cat remains wild and vicious in captivity, yet a specimen from Ladak kept by Colonel A. E. Ward became very tame, even though it always disliked strangers. There have been reports of Pallas’s cat being kept in a semi-domestic state in various parts of Central Asia. “They differ in many ways from the domestic cat,” Pallas wrote, “but they like to mate with him.”

The cat is named for the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), who first described the species in 1776.

Plus more videos of the adorable kittens.

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[butterflyjack (imported)]

Animals are amazing..and the diversity is ever expanding..I never heard of these cats. Beautiful creatures...Sort of a small lynx...they share a cold habitat, hence the furry faces and long haired bodies...Love them

dragonfly

[moi621 (imported)]

Bought a laser lite per thread recommendation.

Black Kitty could not care less, nor the larger Siamese brother, Solly.

Izzy the smaller brother did a little ping pong watching at first intro but now also has no interest. Nothing beats a piece of string for them, when in the mood of course. All of these cats are over 13 years old and seemingly healthy. Black kitty still hunts.

Orange Kitty the younger comes by every 3-4 days and eat 3-4 days volume of food over a few hours. Orange Kitty the older has not been by for a few days. It knows how to "meow" at my bedroom window on late nights. I'm pretty sure this kitty must have a primary home and just visits me for occasions. A real flirt.

Moi

Yes Kitties

[curious_guy (imported)]

Bought a laser lite per thread recommendation.

Black Kitty could not care less, nor the larger Siamese brother, Solly.

Izzy the smaller brother did a little ping pong watching at first intro but now also has no interest. Nothing beats a piece of string for them, when in the mood of course. All of these cats are over 13 years old and seemingly healthy.

When I moved in with my brother, I learned that his 15-year-old spayed-female cat would not play with a laser dot. Later, I discovered that she was almost completely blind. She would growl at the kitten I adopted when she saw it. If one of us was carrying the kitten, she couldn't see it. Once I watched her in the back yard when a HUGE dragonfly was flying around very close to her. She occasionally noticed it but most of the time she did not.

Your elderly cats might not see the dot. I have read that cats can see green light much better than they can see red light. You might want to try a green laser pointer.

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Your elderly cats might not see the dot. I have read that cats can see green light much better than they can see red light. You might want to try a green laser pointer.

Better do not use a green laser pointer - it has much more powerfull laser, and is much more dangerous. Common red laser pointers are about 1-5mW - just enough for the blink reflex to protect your eyes (and remember, cats have eyes much more sensitive to light, than humans).

Green laser pointers, first, are usually made with light frequency doubling (infrared laser + neodim-something crystal doubling frequency and converting it to green), and cheaper models may omit IR-filter - so one hazard - potential for ir laser retina burn, for both the cat and human). One more thing is that green laser pointers usually have higher power output - so you need to be carefull.

You know, do not look into the laser with remaining eye...

[curious_guy (imported)]

Better do not use a green laser pointer - it has much more powerfull laser, and is much more dangerous. Common red laser pointers are about 1-5mW - just enough for the blink reflex to protect your eyes (and remember, cats have eyes much more sensitive to light, than humans).

Green laser pointers, first, are usually made with light frequency doubling (infrared laser + neodim-something crystal doubling frequency and converting it to green), and cheaper models may omit IR-filter - so one hazard - potential for ir laser retina burn, for both the cat and human). One more thing is that green laser pointers usually have higher power output - so you need to be carefull.

You know, do not look into the laser with remaining eye...

I am sure that, here in the USA, green laser pointers that civilians can legally

buy are just as safe as the red laser pointers.

I never point my laser pointers anywhere near the eyes of people or pets.

[moi621 (imported)]

Orange Kitty looking thin. I wonder if it is growing season and he shed some fat or just under nourished. Looks healthy and spent the day here in the front yard.

Black Kitty brought a dead baby rat to the house, I tossed it on the lawn where she devour it. I thought we had an understanding about not bringing the catch of the day too close to the house.

The Siamese brothers are as ever.

Since I have recently been getting flea bites when I pet the three I am allowed to contact, I "Frontline Plus" them all. The Orange Kitty gets a crushed Capstar tablet mixed in food as I cannot get near it to deliver any topical flea Rx. Treating them when I get bite seems to work well as fleas like mosquito, love me. Not bees though. Proves once a month Rx not necessary. But, in some hot humid months they might need it in only three weeks.

Moi

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Orange Kitty is looking thin. I crushed a Capstar tablet as I have before in a little soft food. OK is still barely social and I can't get near him. Now sharing the back yard with old Black kitty. They use to fight. First Black Kitty won then Orange Kitty started kicking butt and Black Kitty yields now if their paths cross. Black Kitty kicks Siamese brothers butt and they yield to her. Never required a brawl.

The mysterious older OK-2 has not been seen since last upload about it. It was well taken care of, no concern.

Kitty updates? Rupert sharing any wild caught bounty?

Moi

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http://news.yahoo.com/video/newyorkcbs2 ... 37404.html

Once a cat falls ten stories they can start "air braking".

Why didn't evolution favor a species of "soaring cat", "gliding cat" or even a "bat cat"?

Moi

[Riverwind (imported)]

Cats are very smart, why did they not become the dominant species, Answer they like to sleep 18 hours a day.

So I will guess that they did not need to, like the cat who walked through walls, how could he do that, he did not know that he could not.

River