Dry, but not really

If you place dry cat food on a paper towel and leave it there a while, you’ll find later that the paper towel has absorbed moisture. “Dry” fo...

Endo- and ecto-

creatures are harmless; some are extremely harmful. And some are just irritating. One thing is certain for the cat owner: no matter how h...

No, they aren’t drunk

head . In more severe cases the cat’s balance may be so off that she will lie down and roll around. The syndrome resembles tipsiness—or dr...

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...