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International Cat Day!! 8th August 2021!

Theme this day and importance. Ways we can adopt, protect, and cherish our feline friends, and Important facts to know about them.

Some cat pictures to bless your eyes.

Theme : ‘ BE CAT CURIOUS’

Cats: Fluffy, mature, savage, intellectually and emotionally sharp, and blessed divine gifts. Besides my intense love for them let’s dive into some scientific knowledge about cats. The cat is a domestic, small carnivorous mammal. It’s Binomial Name is Felis Catus. Often, they are called Domestic Cats to distinguish them from the Wild Cats. Usual types of cats: Farm cat, a house cat or a feral cat. Around 7500BC, Cats are known to be first domesticated in the Near East especially in the Ancient Egypt.

Cats have inborn hunting and territorial characteristics. it’s very, very important for them to survive. Being wary of humans and other animals helps them not to fall in the traps of horrific poachers and deadly animals. There are terrible people who lure cats in just to torture, sell your pets by kidnapping them, and all of this just for alleged “Fun” or “Money”. Abuse surrounding feline creatures have been growing. You can not only protect your cat partners but also donate, foster, food drive, neuter drive, and protect animals around you as well. Remember that your one act of kindness gives a safe home for cats. It isn’t necessary to care for them by bringing them home.

 First time celebrated in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Canada

IMPORTANT NOTE: For their safety and wellness, make sure your cat wears a safety collar and an ID tag.

Cats are naturally curious and love to explore. Due to vehicles (Crossing road or sleeping under cars for shade), poachers, coyotes, owls, and what not. Obviously, we don’t want to rob outside life from cats just to keep them completely safe since indoor things or genetic diseases can hurt them as well.

It is always better to train them about goods and bad, cat-friendly leashes for walking if they like it, and taking precautions. You can take following steps to care for them:

  • Build an outdoor Catio.
  • Do not put bells on their collars
  • Have a back-up caretaker, like a neighbor(Not completely), siblings, or a trusted friend.
  • VACCINATIONS! VACCINATIONS like rabies, feline leukemia and feline distemper vaccine.
  • Always leave a bowl of extra food and water before you go out.
  • Tend to injuries immediately.
  • GET AN ID TAG! An ID tag has the cat’s name and your phone number.
  • Do not declaw very often They need it to protect themselves.
  • Neutering cats might feel a little extreme, but it is for their own safety.
  • Get acknowledged with flea-, tick-, and intestinal parasite–preventive medications with veterinary directions. About 250 heritable genetic disorders have been identified in cats,

Aim is to enable and inspire people to understand cats’ individual needs and perspective, and to act in the interests of each cat’s welfare. We do this by creating and sharing knowledge, insights, skills and current best practice so people can feel confident in their ability to help cats and to challenge ignorance and misconceptions,

– International Cat Care

Facts:

  • Cats can actually taste the air.
  • A cat can also heal itself by purring.
  • Cats love milk, they are actually lactose intolerant and must avoid it.
  • A female cat can be referred to as a molly or a queen, and a male cat is often labeled as a tom.
  • A cat’s nose is as distinctive as a human’s fingerprint.
  • Left paw is typically their dominant paw.
  • Cats are known to represent mythic symbols of divinity.
  • Cats can jump up to six times their length.

Look out for stray cats if you can’t adopt them. NGOs conduct neuter drive, food drive, fostering kittens or adult cats. You can donate to them who take actions and take baby steps while learning how to help and advocate for stray cats.

Consider:

  • Adopt a senior cat.
  • Foster newborn babies.
  • Donate for the cause.
  • If possible, start a group to gather money and have a checkup of cats around you.
  • Give them loads of love, you will never ever regret it.

Cats are so precious beings. They will be your parent, sibling, baby, best friends forever, nanny, ninja cat just for biting and licking afterwards. Their varies personalities will amaze you and fill you with love. They are truly one of the best companions.

Something the kitten taught me

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My brother is extremely extremely extremely (I don’t even know if it is grammatically correct or allowed, but you kinda get the picture now, I guess). We currently have 3 kittens and 3 fully grown up cats and a dog as well (well the dog was my doing). So, every day the kittens demand to be let free from their room of confinement and so we take them to the roof of the house (there are too many stray dogs and so the roads aren’t safe).

This one fine evening, when we had taken the kittens for a stroll in the rooftop, and they were playing(this is what they do whole day), one of them pushed the female kitten (only one of them is a female) off the roof. Ours is a two story house and the kitten was 2 months old. She fell on concrete floor and appeared pretty dead from the rooftop. My mother rushed down giving me strict instructions to take care of the remaining ones and I watched the other two like a hawk, should they try anything. Amidst all of this chaos, the mother cat was content with even one of her kittens with no knowledge of her third one what-so-ever. Later, I decided to gather the remaining 2 (+the mother) and head down. upon enquiry, I came to know the kitten was fine (bless her) and had suffered minor injuries(well her both hind legs had developed sort of a mild fracture). The bones weren’t fully developed and so they would easily heal. And heal she did. Within two days she was back on all fours having some difficulty climbing but doing her best to keep up with her siblings. Though what was interesting was the mother realizing her child was in distress and would probably stay weak developed some sort of special liking to her.( Even to this day, she is partial)

So, anyways, after a week of recovering from her fracture, the kitten was back in form, playing and jumping and meowing. Me and my family members thought that falling rom the roof nd all the kitten would probably be afraid of heights. But man did she prove us wrong. Keeping her away from the boundary became a task. Me and my mother would stay on two corners of the roof just to chase her away each time she came too near to the boundary for our liking. The other two kittens were afraid though and stayed away. The one who made the fall was later on capable of making it all the way down from the roof, this time without injuring her foot or any other body part and now this is the first thing she does every-time she is taken to the roof-top. It is now a task for their mother to have the other two kittens do the same. After all ,she is damn adamant on taking them out of the boundary.

So now every time I see the kitten, I think that just maybe surviving the fall she had somehow realized that it was the worst that could happen to her, should she fall, and that she was capable of making it out alive, just as she did the first time and so she tried each of the countless times we tried to contain her till the day she made it and all we could do was watch.