Feline Snoozers Blog

Please take the time to check out these two articles on cat behavior and animal rights you will find them to be very interesting and helpful.  Thanks to our friend Jacob for forwarding this information to us.  If you have anything animal related that you find to be of help or maybe something silly send it to us and we will post it here on our facebook page.

Cats From the Jungle To Our Homes

“Cats are carnivorous mammals that belong to the felidae biological family. The domestic cat is the most popular felid, and it has been in co-existence with human beings since thousands of years ago. Domesticated cats are smaller than the other cats in the felidae family, and they can be easily tamed.”

Guide to Animal Rights

“The term “animal rights” is often used loosely and widely, the meaning constantly altering with context and whoever is wielding it. The technical definition of “animal rights” is built on certain principles:

• The difference between animals and humans is not morally relevant
• There is a moral obligation to ensure animals are not exploited and are given the same right to a pain-free, safe existence as afforded to human beings. An animal’s ability to feel pain should not be taken any less seriously because they are not human.
• The argument that an animal is intellectually or cognitively inferior and hence should not be accorded the same moral principles does not justify causing an animal pain as the capacity to feel pain is not relevant to intellectual limitations. Simply put, a human being with a low IQ or mental disadvantage feels the same amount of pain as a high functioning human being; hence this argument for discrimination cannot be used.
• A similar rationale is used against “might is right”. There is no moral justification for the stronger being to overpower the weaker one just because they can: in the human or animal world.
• Research reveals that animals have similar complex life systems as human beings, physiologically and psychologically. They feel varying levels of pain, they have a drive to reproduce; their body develops and declines like human beings and they possess similar nervous systems.
• Similarly, they form functional social units. Animals have the intellectual capability to learn things, they have an inherent need for safety – for themselves, their younger ones and their social units – animals form bonds with their own and other beings, they have a need for companionship, they possess the ability to feel psychological pain and the ability to form emotional connections.”