The truth is, cats aren’t great at communicating in the same way as more social species such as dogs. They evolved as solitary hunters with very … [Read more...]
How To Stop Your Cat Scratching Walls
Scratching is a normal feline behavior that usually starts from around 5 weeks of age. There are several reasons why cats scratch. Firstly, it’s … [Read more...]
Playing vs Fighting – Don’t Misread The Signs
Knowing how to tell if cats are playing or fighting is an invaluable skill for cat parents. Fortunately, it is usually possible to tell the two apart … [Read more...]
Why It’s Not Okay To Make Them Wait
Cats are instinctively very clean animals, and they have a strong dislike of soiling their home. So they will hold their bladder and their bowels for … [Read more...]
What You Need To Know About Winking Cats
Cats use slow blinks to communicate goodwill and affection. When they wink, it might be to send a similar message, or it could be that a foreign body … [Read more...]
Why Purring Is Your Cat’s Super Power
It’s a unique sound, almost mystical sound. None of our other pets make a noise quite like it. We take purring as a sign that our cat is happy, but … [Read more...]
How Sunlight Could Be A Threat To Your Cat
In my mind, the archetypal image of a cat has always been of one basking in a pool of sunlight on a bedspread. As you can probably guess from that, … [Read more...]
Personality Changes in Older Cats
It's a commonly held belief that most old cats become calmer, slower and more tolerant. But no one passed this message on to my tuxedo cat, … [Read more...]
Why Do Cats Pull Their Hair Out?
Cats pull their hair out in clumps or on their tails more frequently than most people realise. Sometimes this behavior is accompanied by visible … [Read more...]
Why Do Cats Eat Their Hair?
Cats have plenty of habits which appear perplexing or inexplicable to us, and eating hair is definitely one of them. I know one long haired cat who … [Read more...]