The Vet Said, “I Don’t Know”

Having a sick cat is stressful. This can be even worse when the reason for a sick cat’s illness is not immediately clear. It...

What It Means When Cats Groom Each Other

Researchers from Belgium set out to decipher conflicting hypotheses about allogrooming in cats. Allogrooming is when one cat touches another by licking, scratching, nibbling,...
Cat food ingredients are screened for aflatoxins and other contaminants, but aflatoxin can be difficult to detect at its initial stages and may therefore slip into a batch of food, undetected.

Pet Food Contamination

A study in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry looked at the level of microplastic (MP) contamination of commercial pet and wildlife foods. The researchers assessed a...

Surviving Adolescence

Your sweet ball of fluff who would sleep on your lap for an hour or more while you read is suddenly a whirling dervish...

Oh No! What Did You Eat?

Cats are curious by nature, and they love to investigate objects with different shapes and textures. This includes picking things up, tasting them, tossing...