Catnip Alternatives Part 2: Valerian Root
I’m sure you, somebody who is reading a blog post on cats on a website for a cat behavior consultant, are familiar with catnip. If you’re not, you can check
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Our Chief Purr Officer, Zoloft, had surgery yesterday and I got word not too long ago that he gets to return home today! I am clearly pretty excited, but part
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Catnip Alternatives Part 1: Silver Vine
Are you familiar with catnip? The herb is well known for causing cats to get a bit wild and it’s commonly found in popular cat toys like the Yeowww! banana.
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What Is Play Aggression In Cats?
Cats bite humans for many reasons: anxiety, not having access to a less dangerous set of defenses, and frustration are common reasons. In some cases, the reason a cat is
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If you haven’t had a litter box problem with your cat, consider yourself lucky. Many people get away with just setting up a box and hoping their cat uses it
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Let me start out with the following: Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. Heavy siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. Here we go again. Another day, another headline about a study claiming that cats are terrible, evil creatures and they
Purr-ide Post: Are Gay Cats a Thing?
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