In Japan, cats are very popular. So popular, that soon you may see many people walking around with ‘cat ears’ on their heads!
‘Necomimi’ (cat ears) are hi-tech fashion. Not only are they fun to wear, they’re designed to communicate. Necomimi uses non-invasive neuroimaging Continue reading »
We were dressed and ready to go out for a New Years Eve party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard.
We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened the front door to leave the house.
The cat, that we had put out in the yard, scooted back into the house. We didn’t want the cat in the house because she always tries to eat the bird.
My wife went out to the taxi, while I went back inside to get the cat. Of course the cat knows Continue reading »
Oscar the cat, has regained a spring in his step following innovative surgery by Dr Noel Fitzpatrick to fit him with a pair of prosthetic paws. The two-and-a-half-year-old feline had his rear paws accidentally amputated by a combine harvester. Oscar’s road to recovery began after his local vet referred his owners, Kate and Mike Nolan, to Dr Fitzpatrick in Eashing, Surrey, England. Now, thanks to bioengineering work by UK-based neuro-orthopaedic surgeon Fitzpatrick, Oscar has gained new feet in a world-first operation.
The revolutionary design of the feet uses Continue reading »