Not “a guy thing”

Yes, there are lots of men who love cats (the author is one), but the old stereotypes and prejudices—dogs are the proper pets for “real men,...

Baby-wipes

behavior with almost all other carnivorous animals. (Humans don’t do this, thankfully.) Cats are, of course, absolutely obsessive about c...

Why so many?

Christian denominations instead of just one. Simply put: members can’t agree on everything. The different cat associations mostly disagre...

Blind, deaf and helpless

eyes stay shut for several days, and they also appear to be basically deaf at first, so newborns are as helpless as can be. If you’ve ever...

The oldest U.S. cat club

American Cat Association (ACA), formed in 1904 as the offspring of a cat club in Chicago. Typical of any human organization, disputes aro...

Alphabet soup time

Most cat owners have no interest in entering their pets in cat shows, but for those who do, seven different organizations in the United Stat...

From whole foot to tiptoes

Roughly 20 millions years ago, the carnivore Pseudaelurus lived, and like modern cats, it walked on its toes instead of flat-footed. It posse...