I fed an abandoned cat for a month, he had a huge deep slash on his cheek and was in rough shape for the first week, he eventually healed quite nicely. He recognized the sound of my car engine and would jump out of the bushes in overwhelming excitement. His chatter with me was more of an excited scream rather than a meow. One of the last encounters with him was adorable. While I was feeding him his tin of wet food, his ears perked up and he jumped deep into the foliage. He returned with a dead mouse and placed it on my foot, he then walked back to his tin of food and continued eating. I think the dead mouse was a gift for me? Someone from the neighbourhood eventually adopted him..............after not seeing him for a year and a half, I came across him again and he greeted me with the same excitement he displayed the first time I met him. Precious moment for me!

My heart goes out to those women. They're not crazy. They're kind souls. I am sending prayers. I'm a cat daddy of one. Xx

I wasn't even into cats until I noticed this; suddenly there were too many cats walking around in my city, Tehran. Since I decided to make my documentary "Adorable Cats of Persia, 1". I have fallen in love with these gorgeous creatures. Whether street or home-bound, they always have this magnificent aura of self-sufficiency. They will use us, but they don't need us and they won't shy away from showing us just that.

7:42 cats used to live in north america. The video litteraly shows the african continent

Can confirm it is definitely possible to "tame" a feral cat. Can also confirm it almost exclusively depends on the specific cat's personality. I know because I tamed my cat who used to be a wild-born feral. Or he tamed me I'm not sure. It took about half a year until he let me approached him, another half a year until he was comfortable enough around me to follow me into the house. But even then he never stopped being a wild animal, he wanted to go outside a lot and brought back all manner of prey. Whenever he was pissed or confused he tried to fight me or run away but he always came back. The older he got the more cuddly he became and the quicker he accepted new humans around him.

They are highly intellectual. Our indoor/outdoor “country” cat has learned my dogs’ commands. The ones that he likes anyway. “Come on boys let’s go for a walk”. Or “Time to go home boys”. And “who wants a treat?” At these times he flits around with the dogs. Staring intently, silently at me until he gets a treat too. And the cat’s killing routine has changed. My youngest daughter is brought live small animals, or half eaten small animals. I made the mistake of showing the feline a mouse I caught myself in a trap. Telling him “You missed one.” Since that night the cat brings me his largest (dead) kills. And I mean largest. He nonchalantly drops them at my feet. Wherever I am. With a stare and friendly purrs. He also brings a wild friend to the front door. Meowing until I come to the door. Which is funny because our cat has his own “secret” ways in and out of the house. Comes and goes as he pleases. I look down. “Oh, it’s your friend.” I go inside, get some food. Put the bowl out and back away. Our pet cat sits patiently as his friend eats. Then they walk off together. Where, I don’t know. They always lose me. Weirdly…our male cat is fixed. And his friend is an unfixed, adult (older) male. They just seem to pal around. And are visibly comfortable with each other’s company. But our cat isn’t shy about demanding food for his buddy. Which always makes me laugh. Rough and tumble play is reserved for the children and dogs. As well as sleeping. With me, he just occasionally will sit on anything I am working on. And purr until I scratch his ears. Sometimes a scratch or two is good. Other times he is incorrigible and will try demanding a a whole fifteen minute session.

With my family our 2nd cat was a little bit afraid of me when he was a stray in the backyard of our house. He turned out to be a big sweetie shortly after meeting him. It was my fault on him on becoming his best friend. He even liked my sister and even my parents,too. I had a very special bond with this cat. Even the stuff that I did to this cat that no one could do. Maybe my sister can. I noticed that he had abandoned issues when we are leaving our home to go to the other home for vacations. He was a very happy cat that found a perfect home.

Despite being a hot blooded young (old) male, I love ALL cats, not just the big growling ones, but the little domestic house cats too, I love em all.

The more we pay attention to homeless animals, the more they accept us and allow themselves to be stroked. I feed street cats every day and observe that every day they become more trusting and affectionate. It's nice to give a little happiness to these street sufferers.

I feed 6 feral cats right now that I've allowed into my crawl space to stay warm because I cannot get any of them to come into the house. All but one are related (I don't know where this one came from, he just turned up one day) and the rest are a mother and her 1 kitten from her first litter and all 3 from the second litter. It was just her and her 3 siblings at first that I found starving under a porch across the street at an abandoned house, but her 3 siblings eventually wandered off. My heart was in the right place, though my head was obviously up my a** because the cost of feeding these 6 plus the other ferals in the neighborhood who come here for food once or twice a day is getting costly as they get bigger. I thought I was doing the right thing but I have now turned feral cats into half-feral who depend entirely on me for their food. Now I'm worried about their ability to make it on their own if anything should happen to me, I'm 53 and both my knees have started to act up regularly (thank you childhood sports!) I hope they are correct in this documentary and they will find a way to feed themselves should it become necessary 🥰

Thank you for this documentary. Much appreciated!

I have a cat that prefers to be free too. He found a way to escape alright. Now I care for him in his alley with his buddies. They still need care whether or not they're "free"

400 million cats on earth. What a lovely thought

Great video. Not your usual experts. I learned a lot. I have some feral cats that hang up in my yard and lumber pile. They are a family of three. They never make a sound, never meow. Totally silent, but they run around and play with each other. They are adorable! They sometimes tolerate me sitting outside nearby. What people on the video were saying is true from my experience. They love to hide and prefer to be out of sight of humans. They love to sit up on ledges or squeeze through small spaces like under a fence. They know all the places in all the yards where they can hide. I find them way more interesting than housecats. They move and act differently from housecats. They are incredibly graceful and agile. Such a joy to watch.

Maybe people can learn something from cats! ❤

Aw. Please, NEVER declaw your cats. It's like cutting off your fingers at the knuckle, and it unnecessary. Trimming their claws or even putting on claw tips covers is the way to go if you are concerned about scratching on furniture.

If I was a cat I wouldn't trust us either, lol!

What the commentator says about cat intelligence actually contradicts where the narrator goes next. He shouldn't be talking about trained cat work. If it's hard to gage cat intelligence, because they don't always want what we offer in tests, it's likely we'd get a better metric of intelligence by watching them on their own, maybe even putting a camera on alley cats, who likely navigate the most serious challenges. Animals might be smarter on their terms than on ours.

Excellent video! Very thorough and didactic.

The narrator sounds like a computer with an accent

*Wow! What a detailed documentary of cats!* 😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾🐱

It’s so cool that they got one of the “Almost American sounding European guys” to narrate

I love cats ! Now have 4 cats ! ... gretings from Serbia 🇷🇸 from MileR 001 ...

They lived in nature before we domesticated them. So they have survival skills already I love cats

Excellent video never seen one that’s good about Cats really really well done Eddie UK

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" We will never turn Cats into loyal servants as we did with Dogs" 😂 we humans are their servants

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff

The cat's domestication goes back farther than the Egyptians, at least 10000 years to the dawn of the agricultural revolution.

I like this type of documentary-it is concise, on topic and short of nonsense. Very good, informative, with a little touch of science. Thank you, I am subscribing to this channel.

ive got 2 cats totaly diff personalties. 1 is an outdoor cat and only comes home for food and sleep. the other is more of a house cat and prefers to be indoors but can go out when he wants too. the outdoor cat is very effectiante and always wants lots of attention when he comes home with lots of purring and head bumbs before going to get his dinner. the other tends to just sleep on the floor and doesnt purr very often and doesnt like cuddles. but he follows me around and walks by my side when i go to the shop. he doesnt like it if he cant see me and meows till he finds me again. he sleeps either at the foot of the bed curld up around my feet or on the floor next to the bed. the other one sprefers to snuggle up in my arms to sleep in bed with me. male intact cats can have a terriitory of upto 10 miles to patrol. males that have had the snip tend to only have a 5 mile territory. females tend to stay closer to home and only have a 1 mile territory. cats purring has healing powers. they dont just purr when their happy they pur when i pain as well as the puring acts as a pain killer and helps heal them if they have a broken bone. a friens kitten either fell or got thrown off a 3 story high baclony and she broke her hips. she was purring like crazy when i picked her up and wrapped her up in warm jumper to get her to the vets. she suvived and she was only 12 weeks old. When i fell down the stairs and fractured my elbow and tore ligaments in both wrists my cats sat on my arms and purred away for hrs it took my pain away. saw 1 story about someoene who was in a coma for years. a cat got in and laid on their chest and purred away and the person came out of the comma after about an hr. the nurse wanted to remove the cat but the doctor noticed how the montors were reacting so decided to leave the cat their to see what happened. The life signs started to improve almost straight away and it took them 1 hr to be fully awake again. Some care homes have reported their patients tend to respond better to having cats sit on them and purr than they get from dogs. ppl who suffer from depression tend to respond better to cats than dogs. Ive suffered from depression since i was a litle kid and my foster parents dogs didnt realy do much to help. but their cats got me out of my depression when they snuggled up to me. its something about how soft and warm they r and their purring that helps. i have COPD now and my cats tend to stand gaurd over me to make sure im ok. 1 is always home and never leaves my side. when the other comes home he takes over watching over me while the other 1 goes out. so ive always got 1 of them near me. last time i had trouble breathing 1 stayed with me while the other ran to my carers home at the bottom of my garden and meowed and scratched at his door to wake him up to come and help me. so they r very inteligent and look after their slaves as humans r slaves for cats were their pets not them r pets lol. they choose who they want to live with we dont choose them. If u go to get a pet kitten some will back away and hide while some come straight for u and make sure they get chosen. most ppl will pick the one that is showing off the most or making the most noise or most playfull. thats them saying pick me pick me. when i went and got the 1st of my current 2 i only had 1 to choose from as the other 2 had already found new homes so didnt get much choice put it was the 1 i wanted anyway from the photos i saw and he imkedialty decided he wanted to come home with me and didnt even try to say no. the 2nd 1 i got from another tenant who was going to dump him as he couldnt afford to take care of him so no choice their and the kitten had no choice but he loved me from the start and started training me to do his bidding lol.

Watching that lady throw the cat in the air to watch it fall was cringe worthy. I felt very sad for the cat

🥰Cats are pretty cool!

The cat's mind is mysterious and whimsical. They are the only creatures, other than humans, that kill for pleasure. I respect that.

I love cats, what a great video, thanks!

incredible rescue 👏 ⚘️❤️🐈‍⬛

Apart from a few irritating or hilarious translation mistakes, i mostly enjoyed this documentary. I already knew a lot about cats and subsequently of the things in this documentary, but i still managed to learn some new facts about cats like details about the whiskers and the clavicles. Nice to the point style.

🐈 cat very nice and very beautiful and so happy

Could you please put a cushion on the floor for the cat to land

What's extremely funny is to compare the intro to the science doc titled "Rats" which is also from this series. They actually say more or less the same things (positive and negative) about each animal, but the music is happy and skippy for cats and horror- inspired for rats.

"How adults cat" i wish i could cat

Heck my cat could see green. She would shred any dress that was green in my closet if she got in.

intresting😍

Nice video 👍👍

I just like cats and documentaries... lucky to find this one... And yeap... it was North Africa... haha

Just call me miss kitty cat lady🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

Love Em'!!..independant.. can be very Loyal, they run the contact..mine eat everything..cat or Dogfood..bugs,chips, avocado,birds,fish..ect: Just Awsome..

People do not keep cats but Cats keep there humans and train them to there needs lol

This video deserved a million views. I love cat they are such a cool species. 😍😍😍

Some people think that dogs are smarter than cats because they sit, stay and fetch on command, while cats don't do anything they don't want to do. Other people believe cats are smarter than dogs--for precicely the same reason.

I love cat whiskers

Pretty sophisticated auto-generated voiceover If it wasn’t quite as stilted, you’d never notice.

Some information exposed here is totally novel to the public: There is an actual machine to translate cat language into human language! That is fascinating, thanks a lot.

Love it! Did not understand my cat's messages and signals. I do understand more now. I thought the but in face is a sign of disrespect. I used to repremand the kneading. Thank you.

Very interesting

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Really enjoyed this video & how it shows how advanced the Russians have developed their particular appreciation for cats.

in my area cats often had some territorial and personal disputes.... I was taking care of a street cat (i named him Jarad, after the name of Juice WRLD) i feed him but my parents never liked cats so he was always in our balcony (though often times i let him in my room but he prefers outside). Our house became his domain and are very aggressive towards outsiders especially towards tomcats, he always win as he's the most aggressive cat in my area, and he got wounded and broken bones in which i let him stayed in room until he recovers. There was also a time when i took in a kitten in which he attacked and got hurt, he realized that i took the kitten in and he accepted it (which i named the kitten Kittyvichnikov, i got it from someone on yt). But then a new cat comes to our area, it was bigger and stronger than him, the cat was calm and does not get intimated at all, not even by me (I called him Gus from breaking bad) and when they fight Jarad always lose until he left and never return. seemed like Gus took over the territory. Cats also has some personal disputes, like the another two street cats who never stops fighting, and not even about food or anything, they just hate each other. Female cats also dominated in mating stuff as they are the ones who chooses which they would like to mate with. My female cat Kittyvichnikov has many suitors. But the most dominant one took the terittory (when Gus left) and bred with her, they now have 3 kittens. Same thing to lionesses when a mom cat's kitten dies they immediately inclined with mating again but if they have kittens they don't want to.

In Soviet Russia, cat crushes you

hi people my name is John from East London in England I absolutely love cats I don't have a cat myself but I do have a cat that visits me nearly every day for food and yes I do feed him or her I think it's a him it's a black and white cat in fact I'm not long thread him and it's gone off now

Multifingered? Polydactyl!

The territorial meows are hilarious

How old is this doc? In 2004, on the island of Cyprus, there was an 8 month old cat found laying next to a human in a Neolithic grave. That's about 9500 years ago, long before the Egyptians.

This is just too hilarious!

Dufus narrator said the ancestor of modern house cats is from North America, even when the map showed Africa.

Wow I never knew half of this stuff. I love cat’s

Hey you did a good job with this video guys

Not all people who have cats live in apartments . A lot of people live in various size homes.

You must be using a very hot light lamp all the ladies faces are melting 😂

I love my 🐈🐈🐈🐈

THAT WAS VERY ENJOYABLE HOWEVER YOU TUBE PLAYS WAY TOO MANY ADS!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!!!

"however, unlike a human mustache which is a masculine secondary sexual character. " made me laugh

Other than the fact that I didn't like that they threw the cat and let some other cats loose and still one percentage of them didn't come back,.. (which is still too much in my opinion) it was still a pretty informative video for the most part.

When I grew up there were cat calls they used to walk along the top of the fences. People can’t understand cats so they fix them at 4 months old. I always thought that kind of kindness is cruel.

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Here in Miami in one week I prob saw 5 to 7 outdoor feeders.

I been to a country called kawith and stary cats are every where their I saw cats every day when I went to kawith

Cats are a superior pet

That Calico cat in the fight was not a male - so it was not a fight over a female. And maybe Russian cats don’t eat food left for them, but cats in the U.S do!

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7:30 That's North Africa, not North America.

I love Cats

Very informative love it. More videos please. Binx and Lu Lu own me 😻

Who is the translator? (overdubbed), sounds like Amy Mainzer

Terrible Narrator stopped me watching.

Information here is terrible but as always love watching cats

THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 AMAZING CATS ❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜 AWESOME,

I’m going to take care of my fluff

Before viewing: Mute narration and turn on close-caption.

I really enjoyed this video being so different from the silly US kind videos, where everything is so superficial; where they repeat 100x every sentence; where the "experts" grimmace like amateur actors... Maybe I wouldn't like this kind of documentaries, if I've got to see several of this stuff. But so far it's refreshing to see that there is a different style possible to that boring us kind...

those Black cats look like my Black Bombay Cat! God Bless!

13:50'ish... The cat was so admired that they bred them for the sole purpose of ending their lives, just so they could accompany people into the afterlife... Ginger Tabbies got it the worst once they came to Egypt... It's a wonder ANY grain was saved.

Too bad for me the narrator speaks in a Howard Cosell cadence.

9:30 also lizards, small snakes...

Sweeties ❤❤❤❤😍

16:20 cat-ginseng plant-dog

Facts aren't gelling in this narration.

OMG

have you ever heard the meowing, "spooky witch song" of 15-20 male cats around a single female cat?

they say the cat comes form North America and show the map of Africa and the Middle East.