A 2 dimensional cat helping felines in the 3 dimensional world.
In this section “Dr. Avocado” (title purely for entertainment purposes), lends a paw to help you understand the complicated psyche and health related issues of cats. In English and Spanish. / En esta sección el “Dr. Avocado” (título es puramente para entretenimiento), te da una patita para ayudarte a entender la complicada psiquis y problemas de salud gatuna. Es español e inglés.
It meows. It bites. It feeds us. Home to Jacobson’s organ and the spiky tongue. The cat’s mouth is a very busy part of our body. Let’s get to know it better shall we? Less teeth, more bite: 30 is our lucky number (4 molars, 10 premolars, 4 canine and 12 incisors). […]
Dogs are famous for their keen sense of hearing. But do you know who can hear at a higher frequency than them? Cats. Our ears are so powerful they even move in different directions like a satellite to locate the prey (or the can opener depending on your hunting grounds). […]
Continuing our study of all the feline’s senses, we now explore the most stylish and elegant of them all: cat eyes. Positioned deep in the face and looking straight to the front to help us calculate the distance between us and prey, while not being so obvious to predator’s searches. […]
Dr. Avocado, what does it mean when my cat starts “smiling” to the air? Is it catnip induced? Oh no that is not catnip fun time, your feline is making use of her vomeronasal organ, better knows as the Jacobson’s organ, a powerful tool that allows us to figure out […]
It’s your favorite time of the year, pumpkin season! But the celebration is not complete if the cat isn’t part of it. Luckily the fruit is feline friendly, but it has to be given in “our own special way”. This means: if the pumpkin has a carved face: keep it […]
I still can’t understand the problem. Humans seem to go to extremes when the weather gets warmer in order to get “beach ready” but when cats naturally shed some hair to find relief then it’s all: “Enough with the hairy tumbleweeds! I just vacuumed!” Well, I am here to tell you […]