Testing for Paw Preference
Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado recently posted a fun blog at WhatYourCatWants.com about “pawedness” in cats. Researchers in Turkey studied 41 cats (ages 6 months...
Natural Solutions for Cats That Hunt
Outdoor cats taking down birds has long been a point of contention between bird lovers and cat lovers. Feeding a cat premium commercial food...
Angry, Aggressive Cats
About 27% of cat surrenders to shelters are due to aggression problems. That’s sad, really, as most cats provide a warning before an attack,...
Why Cats Are Crazed for Catnip
About 60 to 70% of cats react playfully to catnip. Some rub their face on it and go to sleep. Other cats toss it,...
Facial Expressions
Researchers in the United Kingdom devised a study to look at the impacts of human selection and animal breeding on animals’ abilities to communicate...
When Good Cats Go Bad
We love our cats, but when one of them pees or poops outside the litterbox, it is easy to get frustrated. Cats eliminate inappropriately...
Want to Know What Your Cat Says?
Javier Sanchez, a program manager at the tech company Akvelon (Bellevue, Wash.,) who previously worked on Amazon’s Alexa voice service, developed an app called...
Time to Practice Your Slow-Blink Technique
A recent study by animal behavior scientists at the Universities of Portsmouth and Sussex shows that cats respond to eye narrowing, generally with a...
Can Your Cat Imitate You?
A new dog training technique is called “do as I do.” The trainer does an action, basically demonstrating it to the dog. Then the...
5 Unique Cat Behaviors
Burying urine and feces. Cats are believed to have evolved to bury their eliminations to keep their presence hidden from predators. Those that...
Feline Social Head Rubbing
It’s a feline thing: Rubbing against you leg or other objects. “Head rubbing is a normal social behavior,” says Leni Kaplan, DVM, MS, behavior...
When Kitty Won’t Scratch
Q. Thanks for the recent article on getting cats to stop scratching (June 2020). I have the opposite problem: I need to encourage a...