When a Stray Chooses You
Most cat lovers will tell you that cats often find you, whether you’re looking for a cat or not. Some cats just seem to...
Adopting a Senior Cat
We’re all easily enthralled with the cute antics of a kitten, but older cats are often loving and grateful for a home to live...
Finding a New Home
Adopting a cat comes with the plan of keeping that feline family member forever. But sometimes circumstances beyond anyone’s control intervene, and a cat...
Helping Kittens
The National Kitten Coalition, which educates shelter volunteers, annouced that its students saved 122,076 kittens in 2021, an average of 42 kittens per student...
When You’re Thinking Adoption
June is “Adopt a Cat” Month, a special month started by the American Humane Association in 1974 to bring attention to homeless cats. In...
Foster Care: Are You a Candidate?
How to be a valuable volunteer for homeless cats
New Way of Evaluating Feline Pain
At the 2019 AVMA Convention in August, Dr. Paulo Steagall, an associate professor of veterinary anesthesia and analgesia at the University of Montreal, presented the Feline Grimace Scale or FGS, which is a method of evaluating a cats pain using facial expressions.
Bacteria May Be Source of Scent
Domestic cats, like many other mammals, use smelly secretions from anal sacs to mark territory and communicate with other animals. A new study from the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis, shows that many odiferous compounds from a male cat are made not by the cat but by a community of bacteria living in the anal sacs.
Cats and Bonding
A study reported in Current Biology shows that most cats are securely attached to their owner and use them as a source of security.
5 Things: Cold-Weather Watches
Your cat will seek out warm spots, which must be safe
Happening Now…
WBIR-TV in Knoxville, TN, reports that a local animal lover was caring for a bobcat kitten, not realizing it wasnt a lost domestic kitten.
Nicotine, Vaping, and My Cat
My 8-year-old domestic shorthair panther, Max, has lost his appetite and is losing weight. Kidney values/bloodwork are normal, so the vet is looking at environmental factors as a possible influence. My neighbor uses an electronic nicotine delivery device (e-cigarette) extensively, to the extent that I feel that it may be affecting my health. Is there any research involving vaping and cats, particularly the influence of neo-nicotinoids on appetite?