Welcome to Pet Peeves, a monthly series that aims to provide pet care solutions and expert advice for challenging scenarios that involve your beloved animal companions. “Cats” and “separation anxiety” ...

Did you know there’s an actual “kitten season”? Normally, around this time of year, we’d be far past it, and there would be ...

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When people think of pets being clingy, needy or anxious, dogs might be the first animals that come to mind. However, if you have a cat, separation anxiety can still be an issue. One study showed that ...

Ah, cats. We love our furry feline overlords despite the occasional hairball and their propensity to scratch the furniture to sharpen their claws. The latter is perfectly natural kitty behavior, but ...

We adopted a pair of sister tabbies in 2018, a bonded rescue pair adopted us in 2019, and a tiny 4-month-old stray Manx kitten showed up on our porch in October 2024. We now have a total of five cats, ...

Your kitchen counter, dining room table, your bladder in the middle of the night: There's lots of places you'd rather your cat didn't go. Yet cats don't respond well to "stay off, because I said so." ...