June 2024
Harness Training Your Cat
A taste of the wild Sometimes it’s better for your cat to live indoors, as you reduce the chance of your cat going missing, getting hurt, or killing the local wildlife. But many cats long for a taste of the outdoors. Even if they have a home full of cat trees, cat grass, toys, and faithful humans to play with, they may sit at the window staring at the world outside,...
Litter training your cat
No more dirty deeds! An indoor cat must learn to use the litter box. The alternative means a filthy and highly unhygienic house: definitely unacceptable. Fortunately, most cats and kittens actually prefer to use a litter box and take to it readily, so litter training should be fairly easy for you and your kitty. Start small If you start teaching them to use it when they are kittens, they will want to keep...
Cats and Dogs: Can they get along?
Eternal enemies? We think not! Fighting like cats and dogs: a common expression used to describe people who just don’t get along. And indeed, it often seems like cats and dogs just can’t get along. Dogs chasing cats up trees, cats lashing out at curious dogs’ noses and hissing: everything from “Tom and Jerry” to the children’s film “Cats and Dogs” suggests that for these two species, it’s hate at first...
Why Cats Love Catnip
Cats are obligate carnivores: they have to eat meat and meat-based food to stay healthy. On occasion, they do nibble various grasses and plants. One plant that cats are famously fond of is Cat Mint, also called Catnip. They’ll eat it, paw at it, roll in it, jump on it: anything seems to go! So just why are cats so fond of this plant? Nepeta cataria Cat Mint, known in Latin as...
