Cats

I Have a Real Cat Phobia — Here's How I Finally Got Strays to Stop Camping on My Porch

I Have a Real Cat Phobia

Should You Even Bathe a Cat? I Tried It Once (Here's What I'd Do Instead)

Should You Even Bathe a Cat? I Tried It Once (Here's What I'd Do Instead)

My Cat Got Spooked Every Time I Walked Into My Home Office — How I Fixed It

My Cat Got Spooked Every Time I Walked Into My Home Office

Why Does My Cat Lick Nonstop While I Pet Her? The Grooming Loop — Explained

Why Does My Cat Lick Nonstop While I Pet Her? The Grooming Loop

I Adopted a Cat With One Eye — Here's the Eye-Care Routine That Keeps Her Healthy

I Adopted a Cat With One Eye

My Cat's Head Keeps Twitching and I Couldn't Tell What She Wanted — Here's What It Turned Out to Be

My Cat's Head Keeps Twitching and I Couldn't Tell What She Wanted

My Six-Month Kitten Won't Stop Roughhousing My Eleven-Week Kitten — How We Set Boundaries

My Six-Month Kitten Won't Stop Roughhousing My Eleven-Week Kitten

My Mom Got Bitten by Our Cat. Here's What We Learned About Cat Bites the Hard Way

My Mom Got Bitten by Our Cat

My Cat Favors One Leg On and Off — How I Finally Got His Mobility Under Control

My Cat Favors One Leg On and Off

My 14-Year-Old Cat Grew a Bump on Her Nose. What I Did and What Actually Helped

My 14-Year-Old Cat Grew a Bump on Her Nose

My Cat Threw Up Every Single Pill I Gave Her — The Trick That Finally Made Meds Stay Down

My Cat Threw Up Every Single Pill I Gave Her

My 4-Month-Old Kitten Was Breathing Fast While Resting. What It Turned Out to Be

My 4-Month-Old Kitten Was Breathing Fast While Resting

My Cat Turns Into a Buzz Saw Every Time I Pick Her Up — How Handling Finally Stopped Drawing Blood

My Cat Turns Into a Buzz Saw Every Time I Pick Her Up

How Many Times a Day Should I Feed My Cat? What Finally Worked for Us

How Many Times a Day Should I Feed My Cat? What Finally Worked for Us

My Six-Month-Old Kitten Went Weird After His Neuter — How I Redirected the Chaos

My Six-Month-Old Kitten Went Weird After His Neuter

My Cat Ate a Piece of Steak Fat and Then Refused to Eat. What I Learned

My Cat Ate a Piece of Steak Fat and Then Refused to Eat

A Stray Cat Kept Raiding My Kitchen — How I Finally Stopped the Food Thief

A Stray Cat Kept Raiding My Kitchen

My Rescue Cat Goes Scraggly Every Six Months — The Grooming Routine That Finally Stuck

My Rescue Cat Goes Scraggly Every Six Months

I Adopted Two Kittens on Impulse. Littermate Syndrome Almost Broke Me

I Adopted Two Kittens on Impulse

Cat Litter Was in My Bed — My Shoes, and Even My Coffee, Here's How I Finally Stopped It

Cat Litter Was in My Bed

My 14-Year-Old Cat Won't Let Me Near Her Mouth. Here's What Actually Helped

My 14-Year-Old Cat Won't Let Me Near Her Mouth

The Litter Box Started Smelling Within Hours. Here's What Actually Killed the Odor.

The Litter Box Started Smelling Within Hours

She'd Stopped Climbing Her Cat Tree. The Flimsy One Was the Problem All Along.

She'd Stopped Climbing Her Cat Tree

She'd Stopped Chasing the Wand. The Automatic Feeder Gave My Cat Something to Do Again.

She'd Stopped Chasing the Wand

My Cat Hid Under the Bed for Three Days — What Finally Brought Her Out

My Cat Hid Under the Bed for Three Days

The Balcony Door Was the Only Place My Cat Wanted to Be. So I Finally Built Her a Real Catio.

The Balcony Door Was the Only Place My Cat Wanted to Be

My Cat Spent Every Day Chattering at Birds Through the Glass. Here's How I Finally Took Her Outside Safely

My Cat Spent Every Day Chattering at Birds Through the Glass

My Cat's Ears Were Smelling Before They Were Red. Now I'm Not Sure What I Missed

My Cat's Ears Were Smelling Before They Were Red

My Cat Chews Up Everything I Give Her. I Stopped Buying Toys She's Already Destroyed

My Cat Chews Up Everything I Give Her

My Cat Stopped Eating the Food She's Always Eaten — and Nothing Made Her Come Back

My Cat Stopped Eating the Food She's Always Eaten

The Litter Tracked All Over My Floor — I Finally Stopped Mopping It

The Litter Tracked All Over My Floor

The Cat Litter I Switched To Because I Was Tired of the Smell

The Cat Litter I Switched To Because I Was Tired of the Smell

My Cat Got Out Once. I Never Sleep Right When She's Gone

My Cat Got Out Once

My Cat Kept Picking at Her Spay Wound — I Swapped the Cone for Something She Didn't Hate

My Cat Kept Picking at Her Spay Wound

My Cat Refuses the Carrier. So I Stopped Trying to Trick Her Into It

My Cat Refuses the Carrier

My Cat Wants to Climb. Then I Stopped Letting Her

My Cat Wants to Climb

My Cat Started Hissing at Everything — Including Me, and I Didn't Know What Happened

My Cat Started Hissing at Everything

My Cat Is Boring to Me — and to Herself. Here's How I Got Her to Actually Play

My Cat Is Boring to Me

My Cat Got Old in a Weekend — Now She Won't Jump, and She Hisses at Me

My Cat Got Old in a Weekend

My Cat Stopped Using Her Litter Box — Here's What Actually Fixed It

My Cat Stopped Using Her Litter Box