Doraemon male robotic cat: a taste of Japanese culture
Doraemon is a cute, male robotic cat and part of the Japanese culture concerned with cuteness which is a form of escapism. Rarely do I dip into Japanese culture. When I do it is like visiting another...
View Article22,000 toothpicks create a cat picture
A high school in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan created a large picture (sculpture?) of the head of a white cat using 22,000 toothpicks. It was a large undertaking which took 5 months of work and a...
View ArticleCat Town: Japanese circus style cat show (video)
What do you think of this? It appears to be a permanent show based on trained domestic cats somewhere in Japan. It is like the Moscow Cat Theatre which is relatively famous. As usual the cats have been...
View ArticleAmazing Elementary School Student Manages Foster Care for Stray Cats (video)
This is a beautiful video of a beautiful school girl who is full of love for cats, indeed for others. She is full of giving, loving and caring. She is special. The way she handles the cats tells me she...
View ArticleCutest kitten takes to human’s lap when sleepy
The video is embued with a ton of tenderness. I love the way the kitten decides to climb onto her human companion’s lap when she wants to sleep. You can see her gradually falling asleep while sitting....
View ArticleFamed Japanese ‘Cat Island’ cats are being poisoned
The population of the internationally known cats on ‘Cat Island’ which is actually Ao Island (Aoshima), has declined sharply of late from 90 individuals in 2014 to around 30 today, I am told by The...
View ArticleGenderless Asian youths who use cats to promote themselves
I find this personal image culture slightly baffling as it is alien to me but what sometimes runs through it is the domestic cat! These youths are using cats to promote themselves it seems to me. When...
View ArticleJapanese travelling cats. Good photographs, good videos and good harnesses
In these charming videos and photographs of a couple of celebrity travelling tabby cats in Japan, we see them walking on a leash very effectively. I have noticed that the harness for the lead does not...
View ArticleJapanese study of TNR feral cat colony tells us that cat food is their main...
This study came to the conclusion that TNR volunteers managing a feral cat colony on Tokunoshima Island might cause what the scientists call ‘hyper-predation’ of local native species. What they mean is...
View ArticleJapanese like Scottish Fold cats and keep them inside
There appear to be two outstanding aspects of cat ownership in Japan; they overwhelmingly like the Scottish Fold cat breed and 99.5% of domestic cats in that country are full-time indoor cats. The...
View ArticleStranger in Japan ate cat food for two months without realising it!
This is an amusing story from Reddit.com in which a person honestly admits his or her mistake in eating cat food rather than human food and liking it! The person remains anonymous on Reddit.com,...
View ArticleCombined cat café and hotel allows guests to live with cats before adopting
This is a cool cat café in Japan. What I really like about their operation is that they combine a cat café and a small hotel which allows guests to spend time alone with a cat that they might want …...
View Article7つのかご猫
The title is in Japanese. It means: 7 shironeko (7 white cats)…which is not true in this instance! Perhaps the translation is imprecise. Comment: The first point to make is that there is no reason why...
View ArticleWhere is Japan’s Cat Island?
As there isn’t a single cat island but eleven in total it’s impossible to show you where Japan’s Cat Island (in the singular) is. They are all off the coast of Japan as expected! Aoshima Island is one...
View ArticleCats that live in groups
It is wrong to say that only lions live in groups because feral and stray cats live in colonies. And domestic cats in households often live in small groups too. Both the lion and the domestic cat are...
View ArticleJapanese shopowner replaces ceiling tiles with transparent ones for their cats
This is a cool solution for a cat guardian and shopowner who wants to allow their cats to enjoy some vertical space when in their shop/store! I don’t know whether this shopowner is a man or woman but...
View ArticleCute anti-coronavirus cat mascot hands out masks in Tokyo, Japan
The Japanese are arguably obsessed with cuteness and mascots but in the nicest possible way. This particular mascot is both cute and functional. In addition to handing out free face coverings the...
View ArticleHow many cats does Aizawa have?
I don’t think Aizawa owns cats but he is seen with them a lot. For those who are mystified over Aizawa, his full name is Shota Aizawa and he is a Japanese manga character. In English terms that makes...
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