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Nutrition
In the section about nutrition, I would like to add the following information to the last paragraph:
At the 2019 annual convention of the International Society for Applied Ethology in Bergen, Norway, a group of researchers revealed the results of a study that surveyed more than 1,000 cat owners via the Internet. The study found that eating grass is a common behaviour of domestic cats, with 71% observed to have eaten grass at least 6 times in their lifetimes, and only 11% having never been observed eating grass. Roughly a quarter of the respondents said that their cat vomited after eating grass, and 91% of respondents said that their cat did not appear sick before eating grass. The researchers reaffirmed the hypothesis that this behaviour is a vestigial trait that once helped cats induce vomiting to expel parasites. The researchers also suggested that cat owners grow their own grass indoors to prevent their cats from consuming poisonous plants. [1]Mramero081494 (talk) 22:03, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
RE: banner that just got removed. Is the article length really a problem? Readable prose is the primary concern here, not raw article size including markup. The number of characters in the readable prose is 59,505 according to XTools. Judging from WP:SIZERULE, this isn't an egregious offense. To the extent that there is flexibility within the guidelines, I generally prefer to keep long-ish articles as they are. So I'd vote for keeping the article as is.
Even if people are still unhappy with the scrollable length, we shouldn't forget that references take up a lot of space here: about 20% of the scrollable length on my Desktop computer. I'd hate to see good content get cut out in the main article just because of the giant reference section. Is there way to truncate references so they don't have to be displayed in their entirety? MaxwellMolecule (talk) 00:28, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I just want to chime in and say that I am kind of amazed that between October 3rd and today, the choice was made to cut almost 6 printed pages (compared revisions) of researched content, ~30% of this article to make it more scrollable. It feels like a destruction of value to me. Rather than cutting important knowledge, can we instead petition for better in-article navigation? Diablanco (talk) 23:41, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In the L3 section Hunting and feeding the last two paragraphs may be misplaced: the penultimate paragraph (drinking not by suction) appears to have been inserted between two paragraphs describing prey. Thus: may the penultimate paragraph (drinking) please be moved so that it's the last paragraph in that section?--217.155.32.221 (talk) 15:11, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn, with litter sizes ranging from two to five kittens.[9] Domestic cats are bred and shown as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Failure to control the breeding of pet cats by spaying and neutering, as well as the abandonment of pets, resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of entire bird species, and evoking population control.[10]
As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second-most popular pet in the United States by a number of pets owned, after freshwater fish,[15] with 95 million cats owned.[16][17] In the United Kingdom, around 7.3 million cats lived in more than 4.8 million households as of 2019.[18]
Not done: According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. — MRD2014 (talk) 23:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Already done —KuyaBriBriTalk 21:14, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. aboideautalk 19:25, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Not done. Edit requests are requests to make specific, precise edits, not general pleas for article improvement. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 02:14, 21 November 2019 (UTC)