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“Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?”
Within the UK, there are around 1,000 shelters within England alone (Cosgrove, 2024), and according to Parliament there are an estimated 250,000 animals that go to rescue centres every year (2019). Furthermore on the 31st December 2023, 8,632 dogs and 6,771 cats were still in rescue care over the Christmas period (Loeb and Gray, 2024).…
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Neutering & spaying: Will this ruin the cats future?
According to Cats Protection in 2022 there are around 11 million cats that are owned in the UK alone, meaning that over one in four households own a cat. That is 26%. Not only this, but 42% of cats are pedigrees. When examining these figures further a massive 85% of cats are neutered or spayed,…
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Domestication and why cats just aren’t it
Are cats truly domesticated? It is something that is often pondered amongst humans as some seem to be whilst others are not (Ralls, 2024). How do humans really know? Is it the way cats look, behave or genetics? But most of all, what on earth is domestication?! Domestication – Societies language of owning According to…
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