The water-urine connection

One reason that cat urine has such a powerful odor is that it is highly concentrated—a lot of waste matter in a relatively tiny amount of wa...

Egyptian mau

sound cats made, just as if today we were to refer to cats as “meows.” There exists today a breed called the Egyptian mau, which may be (bu...

Serious protein

kitten food are correct: kittens do have different dietary needs than adult cats. Specifically, a kitten needs one and a half times the prot...

Cats and silos

Egyptian wildcats. So naturally the Egyptians appreciated the rodent-eating predators. We really have no idea at what point the rodent ki...

The deaf gene

It’s truth, not legend: Many white cats are deaf, particularly white cats with blue eyes. This is caused by genetics, and if there is a way ...

The protein palette

Cats’ protein requirements are high, and so their need for variety is high also, because no one source of protein—red meat, poultry, fish—pro...

Even cats get glaucoma

eyes are not usually affected, and a cat, like a human, can make it through life with only one eye. The duduk perkara with cat glaucoma i...