Cat News & Stories

Six one-week-old orphans were set down beside a stranger at a California shelter. The calico with the extra toes pulled every one of them in.

Sussex researchers ran the first experiment on cat slow blinking. Male cats doubled their response, and in shelters, the cats that closed their eyes fully went home fastest.

Dog spot-on flea treatments are 45–60% permethrin. Cat products are under 0.1%. Your cat doesn’t have to touch the tube — rubbing against the treated dog is enough.

Thirty-four days after two earthquakes flattened his building in La Guaira, Venezuela, rescuers heard a cat inside the rubble. Nino had survived in a closet on the 10th floor.

A Lykoi is born solid black. About two weeks later the coat starts going silver and the face goes bare. Six separate gene mutations on three continents built the same cat — and a Tennessee vet had to prove they weren’t sick.

Most cats come down a tree backwards and hope for the best. The Wegie walks down face-first — and the Cat Fanciers’ Association says it is the shape of the feet.

Shave a patch off a Siamese for surgery and it grows back the wrong colour — darker, because bare skin runs cold. The coat isn’t a pattern. It’s a temperature map.

The search team that dropped into Bryce Canyon on April 29 wasn’t looking for survivors. Two hikers had gone over the railing at Inspiration Point, and the crew’s job was recovery. Then one of the rescuers picked up what looked like a dirt-covered backpack. It wasn’t a backpack. It was a soft-sided pet carrier, half-buried

July 5th is the busiest day of the year at animal shelters — and most of the cats there had homes on July 3rd. Here’s how to keep yours off that list.

He arrived at a Richmond shelter too round to groom his own back — 42 pounds of cat. Three years and 54,000 Facebook followers later, more than half of Patches is gone.