Privacy, please

people observing. Cats are more reserved, and while they don’t object to being watched, they do object to having their litter box placed in...

The urine-catnip common bond

catnip has only a faint smell, but obviously cats respond to it in a flamboyant way. Curiously, cats can also get a high by sniffing a concen...

High as a cat

general gives the impression of being in extreme ecstasy. If you’ve ever seen a female cat in heat, you know that a “catnip high” appears v...

Covering their traces

cleanliness . It is, in part, but it’s also part of their wild genes: by covering up their traces they are acting in the role of wild animal...

So much primp time

of course ). But it is estimated that cats do indeed spend about one-third of their waking hours in grooming, and no cat owner would argue w...

Allogrooming and autogrooming

Yes, we all know that cats are fanatical groomers (that is, lickers) of themselves, but every cat owner also knows that a cat will also groo...

The “I see you” call

people with whom they are familiar. This is a very short, soft “meow” uttered when, for example, you walk through a room where the cat is s...