Everything for Cats

Cat Food & Nutrition

A cat is an obligate carnivore with a weak thirst drive, and those two facts explain most feeding advice: animal protein matters, and water intake is easier to raise through food than through a bowl. Portion by calories rather than by the marks on a cup, and actually measure — free-feeding is how the weight goes on quietly.

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Cat Health & Vet Care

Cats are unhelpfully good at masking illness, so the useful signals are small and behavioral: hiding more, sleeping somewhere new, grooming less or over-grooming one spot, eating slowly, jumping less, or a change in what the litter box looks like. The box is the best diagnostic instrument in the house.

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Cat Behavior Explained

Most cat behavior that reads as spite is a cat solving a problem in a way the household did not want. Punishment does not work on cats and reliably teaches them to avoid you rather than the behavior. Reward what you want, arrange the environment so the unwanted option is inconvenient, and give an indoor cat something to climb, watch and hunt every day.

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Cat Litter & Litter Boxes

Cats are conservative about litter: most prefer a fine, soft, unscented substrate, and heavy perfume is added for humans rather than for them. If your cat is avoiding the box, litter is one lever — but box count, size, depth, hood and location matter just as much, and a sudden change in toilet habits is a reason to call a vet before buying anything.

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Kitten Care: The First Months

Litter training is mostly not training: kittens take to a box readily when it is shallow enough to climb into, close to where they spend their time, filled with a fine unscented litter, and kept clean. Socialization is the part with a deadline, and kitten-proofing is mostly about what goes in the mouth.

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Cat Supplies & Gear

Cat gear rewards thinking about where a thing goes as much as which thing it is. A tree in a corner nobody sits in gets ignored; the same tree at a window overlooking the street becomes the most-used object in the house. Vertical space, hiding places and a window view are the cheapest enrichment available.

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