Cat intelligence

Afghanistan, for roughly a week when a cat caught his attention. The day he appeared from behind a concrete barrier trailing blood from an injured paw, Knott decided to take action. He approached his commander: "I have a refugee in my intelligence office." The commander was at first shocked and disapproving, but after seeing the cat, he left the office - returning a few moments later with armload of tinned salmon he called "Humanitarian aid." Under Knott's protection, the cat became something…

Dear reader, today I wish to share an incredibly eclectic, spiralling, black tale… a tail that belongs to Mr. Dooland “Dooley the Cat” Ashwood. There is more to his wacky unusual name than meets his jewelled emerald eyes. It is an Irish name, composed of the Gaelic dubh “black” and laoch “champion”, meaning Dooley loosely translates into “Black Champion”. Honestly, the name doesn’t quite fit him perfectly. “Dubh” describes his permanent obsidian coloured fur tuxedo and perhaps his dark sense of…

To be cosmopolitan, do you need to have left the country? Is it possible to truly know about other parts of the world without first travelling there? Sure, cultures and people and places can be studied, but can you really understand it if you haven’t seen and experienced it? Because Puss, in Angela Carter’s “Puss-in-Boots” believes that he is a cosmopolitan, but never shows any signs of having ever left Italy. Without any doubt, Puss is knowledgeable about the world around him. He references…

animals get brutally murdered. Fortunately, there are many things people can do to help stop this problem. First, a major problem with animal overpopulation is that stray animals can get terrible diseases. For example, a common disease that occurs in cats is feline leukemia. “Feline leukemia is a cancerous disease caused by feline leukemia virus.” (Pet Education.com) However, it is…

size, temperament and intelligence they are used as service dogs. The miniature pinscher can come in many colors. The only colors recognized by the American Kennel Club are red, chocolate, black, rust and tan. They can also have white markings. They are well-balanced, compact and sturdy little dogs. The miniature pinscher walks with a high-step almost prancy gait. Once thought to be a toy breed they weigh between 5-10 pounds and stand 11-12 inches high. Their paws are cat-like made for…

Humans are not the only best friends you can have. Pets are most commonly found in people’s home all around the world. Whether the pet is a dog, cat, bird, turtle, or even a snake, each pet shares a beneficial factor in a person's daily life. When thinking of owning a pet, most people think of all the responsibility and time that is involved in the process. This ideology is true because owning a pet can be inflexible to a person’s schedule; however, many people tend to overlook the many positive…

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a book by English writer Terry Pratchett. This book presents to the reader a marvelous story about a talking—or very intelligent and clever, as he puts it—cat, a clan of educated rats, and a stupid-looking kid, who go from town to town to scam the villagers by producing a fake plague of rats, and then the kid would play the piper that leads the rats away with his music. That plan leaves Maurice as the master mind behind the act. The story begins…

Mice are mice. Dogs are dogs. Humans are humans. This should be simple to understand, yet, we live in a world with such a high amount of people believing that cruel, painful testing on innocent animals will have the same outcome for people. The truth is that 95% of the tests that pass through animals proceed to fail in the human body. And why would that be? The two of us are such different species with different body structures and brain functions; therefore, we aren’t correspondent at all. In…

definitely need owners who are able to spend lots of time with them. Doxiepoos can get along perfectly well with almost any human, but may struggle with other animals. They like to be the center of attention and can be a bit bossy with other dogs and cats. They may even grow jealous of young children, so need to be raised with care. They also have a real tendency to be quite greedy dogs and can easily gain weight without proper control. Prospective owners need to be prepared for all of these…

of “Lamb to the Slaughter”, an analysis of the story, Piedmont-Martin, believes that readers are pushed to view women in the same way, so when they actually see what the female characters are like in the story, they are often surprised by their intelligence and their strength that they hold. She states, “Because on the first reading we are predisposed to think of her as the “lamb,” the innocent who is about to get hurt, we do not notice how her composure that evening seems put on, or at least…