I was taking a walk one morning when I saw a cat in the abandoned slum-ish alley near my house, where I find most of my rescues. But this one was different. Judging by her size and mew, it was about 7 months old. I called to it with my (terrible) imitation meow, and it came [...]

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My cats nose is a paler pink than it usually is.. is there something wrong /He seems fine

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I have a very special cat. Her name is Path, and she is all white. Her eyes are an ice blue and her pupils are pink like those of a white rabbit or lab rat. I have found VERY little information about albinism in cats online, and am wondering if there are many other red [...]

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How would you describe your cat? My cat always looks like she’s up to something sneaky. Is it just me? How would others describe how their cat looks, its personality, what it’s thinking?

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not what does purring mean, how do they purr? what are the true facts of how cats purr?

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my cat won’t clean his butt. What should I do?

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Fifteen years ago, on the day I picked up my first cat at the local shelter, the volunteer on duty handed me a paper grocery bag full of pet supplies. “Here are some free samples,” she said, tossing the sack into the back of my car. “There’s some good stuff in there.” When I got home [...]

While most people think of animal groomers as working primarily on dogs, there are a number of reasons you may want to consider for grooming thick or long haired cats. Cats are, to a great extent, self groomers. They lick themselves clean, in the process removing dead hair. However, there are a few reasons [...]

[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 [...]

If it hadn’t been for the common house cat, the human populations in European countries might have been completely wiped out hundreds of years ago by the Black Plague, also known as the Black Death. It raged across the continent sporadically for four hundred years, leaving widespread devastation and death in its path. It is [...]

I am an author and I have a problem. My problem is my cat Barthélemy who thinks he is a co-author. For the last month or so I’ve been working long days dashing off a 1,200 page novel and he’s been with me nearly every step of the way. Okay, I’m exaggerating a bit: it’s taken [...]

Every cat owner faces a series of health care decisions for their animal. Vaccines are a very important part of health management in cats. Just like in humans, vaccines fool your cat’s body into believing it is being attacked. The body then stimulates defense systems to produce antibodies to fight the attack. While no vaccine [...]