Bringing home a new cat is an exciting and rewarding experience, but it also comes with responsibilities. To ensure a smooth transition for both you and your new furry friend, it's crucial to be well-prepared. This new cat owner checklist covers all the essentials you'll need to create a comfortable and loving home for your feline companion. Preparation Before Bringing...

Introducing a new cat into your home is a delicate moment, requiring a great deal of care and patience, whether in a home without pets or already populated with other companions. Here are some tips designed to ease the transition and encourage harmonious cohabitation. 

Cat scratching behavior requires a renewed, evidence-based understanding of cats' natural needs and behaviors. It's an integral part of a cat's daily routine for valid reasons, including claw maintenance and stretching. Let's explore how to deal constructively with this behavior, while ensuring the cat's well-being and preserving the furniture. 

Cats can display a range of personalities, from the most confident and adventurous to the most reserved and fearful. Fearful or self-conscious cats pose a particular challenge for their owners, who need to navigate sensitively to help them feel safe.

Of all behavioural problems, cat aggression towards humans is the one that becomes most complicated with the passage of time. Not only can aggression become more frequent, but it's not unusual for the intensity of the aggression to increase over time. This is what sets aggression problems apart from all other behavioural problems: the fact that waiting can make aggression...

As experts in cat behavior, we frequently receive requests to address a common issue: cats choosing to eliminate outside of their litter box. This particular problem accounts for nearly half of all inquiries we receive regarding cat behavior. However, when we are contacted, we often discover that we are not the first resource people have turned to for solutions.

It’s often been said that “cats don’t have owners, they have staff,” but in the past I never really bought into that way of thinking. I live in a household of rescue cats, who are all well-mannered, and well “trained” kitties. Whenever I tell people that my cats have been taught how to behave and that they listen to what...