I’ve always felt the first lap-sit is when fostering gets real. Most foster cats walk in, look around, and vanish under the bed. Olga did the opposite. She came home…
Sunday night, smoke started rising from a house on East St. Charles Road in Lombard, Illinois. It looked like any other home fire, but there were 38 cats inside. What…
I still remember the first time a shelter dog leaned his whole weight against my leg. He didn’t bark or jump, he just stayed there. That’s what it feels like…
A cat that meows through the night is not being difficult. It is doing something that has worked before, and in most cases, the person who taught it to keep…
Cats do produce tears. But according to veterinarians, those tears have nothing to do with emotion. If a cat has watery eyes, the cause is physical, not a sign that…
A cat was found alive at a transfer station dumpster in Bingham, Maine, after someone tied it inside a plastic bag and threw it away. Transfer station staff discovered the…
Most people with a new litter focus on the kittens. That makes sense. But the first week after birth is when problems tend to show up quietly, and catching them…
Finding cat hair on every dark shirt and sofa cushion gets old. For people who love cats but not the cleanup, the breed makes a real difference. No cat is…
A nursing cat is doing more physical work than at almost any other point in her life. What she eats in the weeks after birth directly affects how well her…
Volunteers went into a trailer at the Garden Homes Trailer Park in Glenville, New York, on Saturday and found eleven cats inside. Reports had suggested there could be as many…
Annie Johnston