Bringing cats inside: Who is it good for?
New research looks at the challenges and successes of transitioning cats to indoors-only. The biggest challenge for most cat behavior consultants is not changing cat behavior. It’s changing the behavior…
Is it okay if cats aren’t little humans? A deep dive into cat attachment to humans
Are cats our fur babies? For many of us, we think of our pets as our children, and we love and care for them very deeply. But how do they…
Using science to encourage humans to play with their cat! – Part 1
As any cat behavior consultant working with cat caretakers to solve cat behavior problems will tell you – it’s not changing the cat’s behavior that is hard; it’s getting the…
Do social cats have better problem-solving skills?
Animal cognition incorporates several aspects of animal thinking: memory, concept formation, learning ability, and reasoning – such as problem solving. Every species has different “problems” to solve throughout their evolutionary…
A new study explores just why cats might scratch where we don’t want them to
Scratching behavior – so natural for cats, so frustrating for some cat owners. Scratching serves multiple functions for cats including marking their territory (with both visual and olfactory signals), conditioning…
Can computers tell us what cats do all day?
It’s an often-asked question – what DO our cats do all day? Of course, now that many more of us work from home, we probably have a greater awareness of…