Viral cat stories, heartwarming rescues, famous internet cats, and feline news from around the world. The good stuff worth sharing.
For nine years, Juniper slept in exactly one place: the foot of the big bed, on the left side, on a folded gray blanket that had stopped being anybody’s favorite blanket a long time ago. She was a tortoiseshell with a white chin and a habit of sighing when she settled, as if lying down […]
Everyone tells you the hard part first. They tell you a senior cat might have a heart murmur, or a thyroid that needs a pill in the morning, or maybe only a few good years left. What nobody tells you is how fast an old cat decides you are the one. Kittens make you earn
Nobody Warns You How Fast an Old Cat Loves You Back Read More »
Lift a Ragdoll off the floor and it melts over your arm like a warm towel. Owners call it “the flop” — and it’s the exact trait a California breeder built the entire breed around in the 1960s. Here’s why your Ragdoll does it.
That slow, lazy blink your cat gives you across the room is the closest thing cats have to saying “I trust you.” A University of Sussex study tested it on 45 cats — including total strangers — and here’s how to blink back tonight.
Your Cat’s Slow Blink Isn’t Tiredness. Scientists Found It’s a Message Meant for You. Read More »
Greta is a tortoiseshell. She is eleven, she is not impressed, and she has agreed — again — to answer letters from the humans of the internet. The mailbag is open. Please do not reply-all. Dear Greta: Every single morning at 4:50, my cat sprints the length of the hallway, knocks one specific item off
For thirty-one years, Walter Pruitt was a foreman. He poured concrete in Akron, Ohio, raised three kids on overtime, and was not, by his own cheerful admission, a man who cried at things. Then the kids grew up and left. His wife passed in the autumn of 2023. And the house in Akron got very
A Cat Named Biscuit, and the Man Who Learned to Be Soft Again Read More »
A flower sitting in kitchens all over the country can kill a cat in three days — and your cat never has to take a bite. True lilies poison through pollen, vase water, even a brush of the fur. Here’s the 18-hour window that decides whether a cat lives.
If There’s a Lily in Your Kitchen, Your Cat Is Already on a 72-Hour Clock Read More »
A neighbourhood had been feeding the same “stray” for years. When the RSPCA finally freed him from a 4-inch gap and scanned his microchip, the cat turned out to be Alfie — missing four years, with home just two streets away.
Tinnie, a 20-pound Russian Blue in Colorado Springs, normally ignores Shilah Marette’s mother. The night he wouldn’t leave her lap, she was having a heart attack. A year later he headbutted Shilah awake mid-stroke. His family calls him a two-time lifesaver.
Nearly 4 in 5 Bengals play with water and 9 in 10 climb everything — a 2020 study put numbers to what every Bengal owner already mops up. The reason is a wild Asian leopard cat sitting a few generations back in the family tree.
89% of Bengals Climb Everything. 80% Play in Water. That’s Not a Quirk — It’s the Breed. Read More »
