Diet, Nutrition and Health

You Can Share Your Food With Your Cat, Sometimes Most of your kitty’s diet should be a nutritionally complete cat food, however you can give her the occasional table scrap. Obviously, you need to know how to choose feline-friendly snacks with nutrients she needs. Meat Cats are by nature meat …

Cats love to be outside. That is common sense! However letting your precious kitties around on their own can lead to many cat-astrophies, lost, or worse, hurt or killed. The solution? The catio (a patio, for cats). A catio is like a cave for Fluffy: an enclosed backyard space that …

GEE, WHY DOESN’T MY CAT LIKE CAKE? IT’S SOOO YUMMY! While scientists were aware that both domestic and wild cats, which are carnivorous, have evolved without the ability to taste sweetness, researchers from the Monell Center were curious to see if they have maintained the ability to detect bitter tastes. …

New Research Finds, Cats Do Not Necessarily Show Affection Nor Feel Any Safer When Owners Are Around People wonder why their cats sometimes do not show affection to them as much as dogs do. Cats often don’t show certain gestures to let people know that they feel secure being with …

What Does It Mean When Your Cat Rolls on Its Back. Most cat lovers believe that a cat rolling on its back is the cat’s way of giving us humans an invitation to pet its belly. This not be true. A cat rolling onto its back is actually just greeting …

38 pound cat Tina gets help A severely overweight cat weighing in at 38 pounds when she came to the shelter is getting help from vets and an organization that has dealt with a similar situation before, with a cat named Tiny who became famous for his dress-up ties and …

• Change your cat’s meal plan. Next time you go cat food shopping check out the higher-fiber hair ball-control formulas that are available in both dry and wet options. If you are uncertain, ask your vet for a recommendation. Gradually switch over from the old food to the new one. …

Halloween is a terrible time for cats. Throughout history, Western culture has had a love-hate relationship with cats, and black cats always get the worst end of the deal. Although the ancient Egyptians honored cats, our culture has maintained various unpleasant and unfair superstitions about them. Starting in the Middle …

5 Ways Pet Owners Make Veterinary Medicine Harder Than It Has To Be. Veterinarians and cat owners both want the same thing: the happiest, healthiest cats around. Unfortunately, sometimes veterinarians fail to communicate about pet health, and sometimes pet owners do, too. Here are five of the most common miscommunications …