Category Cat Care Basics

Why Is My Cat Scratching Everything? The arm of the sofa looks like it lost a fight. The curtains have little ladder runs near the bottom. There is a corner of the bedroom carpet that will never be the same.…

Best Cat Litter Types Compared: Which Should You Buy? The first trip down the pet aisle’s litter section can feel genuinely overwhelming. Clumping, non-clumping, crystal, pine, paper, corn, walnut — an entire wall of bags all promising the best-smelling, lowest-dust,…

How to Trim Your Cat’s Nails Without a Fight Most first attempts at trimming a cat’s nails go something like this: wait until the cat is asleep, creep up with the clippers, manage exactly one nail — and then the…

Why Does My Cat Purr? The Real Reasons The first night my rescue cat finally climbed onto the couch beside me — after three weeks of hiding under the bed — she started purring so loudly I could feel it…

The day I brought Biscuit home, I made every mistake in the book. I opened the carrier in the living room, let her bolt under the sofa, invited two friends over to “meet the cat,” and then panicked when she…

When I got Biscuit, my first instinct was to let her roam. I grew up around cats that came and went through a cat flap like tiny landlords, and it just felt… natural. Cats are predators. They like the outdoors.…

The first time my cat Biscuit did it, I genuinely thought she was stuck. She was sitting on my lap, staring off into the distance, and her front paws were doing this slow, rhythmic push-push-push into my thigh — like…

I never planned to become a cat person. Then Miso — a scrawny tabby with one folded ear and the confidence of a landlord — moved herself into my life via a friend’s “temporary” rehoming situation. I knew dogs. I…