Cat Care Articles

Cats usually like riding in the car about as much as they like taking baths. Whether you’re making a cross-country move, or you couldn’t leave your kitty home from the family vacation, the day may come when your cat has to get in the car. Fear not, there are tips to help make it easier [...]

When bringing home a new cat or kitten, owners often consider declawing the animal for various reasons: to prevent damage to furniture, to avoid the cat’s scratching family members during play, or to minimize injury to other pets and animals from an aggressive cat. While some owners ultimately decide to have their pet declawed, along [...]

Gone are the days of leaving out an extra bowl of food for Fiffi von Fuzzy Paws before departing for your cruise. Now, options for ensuring your precious cat is cared for in your absence are endless. And, choices run the gamut from bare essentials to putting your cat up in accommodations that rival luxury [...]

Getting a new kitten is a thrilling time for any pet lover. The truth is, now you have a new (adorable!) little personality to get to know. Some kittens are frisky and some are cautious; some eat everything and others are picky. But how do you know how to find names for kittens? Picking a [...]

To scoop or not to scoop, that is the question. Litter boxes are the bane of every cat owner’s existence. Persnickety kitties like a clean litter box and cat servants (yes, that’s us) are tasked with providing our charges a clean place to do their business. Luckily for cat parents, there are many brilliant inventions [...]

Coming into a new home can be a traumatic experience for a cat or kitten. She’s going to feel confused and frightened, and if it’s a kitten just separated from her mother, she might grieve some, too. The new cat has to cope with losing her former home in addition to learning a new home [...]

So many people believe that a cat’s fur causes the allergic reactions of watery eyes, frequent sneezing, coughing and runny noses. In truth, cat dander is the actual culprit. The Humane Society estimates that one-third of cat owners are plagued by allergies. Yet, these cat owners still keep their companion animals. So what makes life [...]

Here at Cats.com we aim to provide you with some of the best cat resources you’ll find on the web. Much of the time, your resources are each other! As a “thank you” to our users who have been active on the site, each time you change from one paw color to the [...]

Curiosity killed the cat. There is a reason that expression exists, morbid though it may seem. Cats are naturally curious creatures. They like to stalk small animals and explore out-of-the-way terrain. There are, however, many poisons they need to avoid. You can learn what to do in the unfortunate even that [...]

Our cats, Barthélemy and Marcabrun, are in for a major change. My husband and I are preparing to sell our house, buy a passage-making trawler to live aboard and sail to as many places in the world as we can. And wherever we go, so go our feline pals. So I’ve started researching what we [...]

When bringing home a new cat or kitten, owners often consider declawing the animal for various reasons: to prevent damage to furniture, to avoid the cat’s scratching family members during play, or to minimize injury to other pets and animals from an aggressive cat. While some owners ultimately decide to have their pet declawed, along [...]

Cats usually like riding in the car about as much as they like taking baths. Whether you’re making a cross-country move, or you couldn’t leave your kitty home from the family vacation, the day may come when your cat has to get in the car. Fear not, there are tips to help make it easier [...]

The spirit and boundless energy of a kitten can turn an ordinary situation into an unlikely adventure. Your new pet will love to explore and play. He will make everything he encounters his new toy. If you intend on keeping your sanity intact and avoid harming your kitten, kitty-proof your home. First, think [...]

We’ve all heard legends about toilet-trained cats. Most famously in the hit comedy Meet the Parents , potty trained cats are one of life’s little mysteries. After all, cats act so smart; we just know that they could use the toilet if they wanted to. Maybe that explains why toilet trained cats have become an underground [...]

[This is the second part of a 2-part series. Find the first article here .] When organizations dealing with urban feral cat colonies engage in Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) programs, they still must deal with already existing kittens, as well as those who are born more quickly than a TNR program can keep up with. That’s why rescue [...]

It isn’t just anyone who could get away with peeing on our rugs. It’s a good thing we love our cats so much, or they likely wouldn’t get away with it either. It’s frustrating when they do it though, as it’s an unpleasant thing to clean up. No one wants to don the rubber gloves, [...]

So why do cats cough up hairballs? Anyone who has lived with a cat for long enough has probably had the misfortune of stepping on one of these wet clumps of matted fur barefoot, and it is not an experience that you’d care to repeat. The reason why cats cough up hairballs has to do [...]

You love your cat to the ends of the earth. Well, what if the earth starts to shake? Or, the sky opens up and pours water in sheets upon it, flooding your house to such an extent that your poor kitty could just about float away? Are you prepared to handle an emergency or a [...]