Archive for 2007

Cat Cafe?!?!?!?! YES!!!!

This article from the National Post has introduced me to one more place I must visit before I die – a cafe where I can relax with a cup of hot chocolate and a cat.
No, I’m not messing with you fellow cat obsessives, this is an actual reality.
Takafumi Fukui, a 34-year-old former employee of a [...]

Posted by admin on December 15th, 2007 under Commentary  •  No Comments

Cat Flap that caters for Eight Individual Cats

Pet product company, Pet Mate have developed a cat flap that, by using Radio-frequency identification (RFID), can restrict access to and from a property for up to eight individual cats. In other words, if you own more than one cat and you don’t want certain cats going outside for whatever reason, you can set the [...]

Posted by admin on December 15th, 2007 under Products & Services  •  No Comments

Glow in the Dark Cats

Being someone interested in science and technology, it was hard for me to ignore the new that’s been going around the internet all this week regarding South Korean scientists making the “breakthrough” of genetically engineering a glow in the dark cat.
“WAT????” I hear you ask.
The story goes that Kong Il-keun, a scientist at Gyeongsang National [...]

Posted by admin on December 15th, 2007 under Commentary  •  No Comments

..and here’s something I CANNOT get behind.

According to the East Anglian Daily Times, there are a bunch of black cats who, due to supesticious nonsense and a reputation of being witch’s familiars, are being left behind in a Bury St.Edmunds cat sanctuary by prospective cat owners.
FOR SHAAAAAAME!
What’s wrong with black cats? My sister had one. She was the sweetest thing in [...]

Posted by admin on December 11th, 2007 under Commentary  •  No Comments

Cat’s Protection launches Cat Short Story Competition

News from Pet Club UK says that Cats Protection have launched a short story competition for all the wannabe cat-obsessed novelists out there.
According to the article, Cats Protection (which you’ll hear a bit more about when I get round to it)  want supporters to send in short stories of no more than 1,000 words that [...]

Posted by admin on December 10th, 2007 under Commentary  •  No Comments

This is just magic

Word up to mitchclem.com for hosting this (check out Mitch Clem for the Kittens! The Comic comic strip).

Disclaimer: Under no circumstances would I EVER endorse the running over of cats with radio controlled cars.
It is magic, though. Lazy puss.

Posted by admin on December 10th, 2007 under Daft  •  No Comments

In case you’ve been living under a rock…

…here’s my guide to the numerous cat “comedy” sites that have cropped up this year.
According to the wikipedia entry, Lolcats have been around for a few years but it was only when the dude behind http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ brought them all together that Lolcats gained internet Zeitgeist status. The process, though simple – take a [...]

Posted by admin on December 6th, 2007 under Daft  •  No Comments

The Multiple Cat Household

Now here’s something I can get behind. Coming from a family that had 6 cats living under the same roof at point, this article from The Seattle Times gives some good advice for keeping the peace between the feline population of a human household.
There was always an odd circular pecking order in my house – [...]

Posted by admin on December 6th, 2007 under Hmm...informative  •  No Comments

Cats rule…

…I mean, they really do.
My name’s Rob and this website has been put together just for me to document my views on cats including but not exclusive to my own cat, cats that live on my street, cats from around the world, cats on film and tv, cartoon cats, big cats, LOLcats, looking after [...]

Posted by admin on December 5th, 2007 under Commentary Tags: ,  •  No Comments