Hundreds of cats, from purebreds to rescues, competed for glory at the world's largest cat show in Cleveland, Ohio. A cat owner from Mithra Cattery gives her Persian cat a massage after a long day at ...

Experts estimate that more than half of the world’s pet cats are overweight — and now the flabby tabbies might soon have their own version of Ozempic. Pet meds company OKAVA Pharmaceuticals has ...

A new study by researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the University of Naples Federico II shows a domestic cat's purr reveals far more about its individual identity than its meow.

Cats are popular pets. Last week my college-aged son resumed his annual campaign to get him a kitten. We finally caved. The Shepherd household is now the proud owner of a cute kitten named Nova. We ...

As many cat owners will testify, their pets are often mysterious creatures, independent, cunning and sometimes aloof. And now it appears that when it comes to communication, they might be playing ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...

In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers. By Clarissa Brincat As he lectured on animal behavior, Kaan Kerman, an instructor in the ...

A driver in North Carolina told a dispatcher that a cat carcass had crashed into her windshield along a highway after the feline was dropped from the sky by a bald eagle. The woman called 911 on ...

A driver in North Carolina told emergency responders that a bald eagle dropped a cat that crashed through her windshield, police said. The incident happened around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Route 74 ...

The first time Mwezi Mugerwa saw the African golden cat, he didn’t know what it was. While reviewing camera trap footage at Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, the conservation ...

America’s most-popular cat names for 2025 have been revealed. Cat names matter, not least to the cats themselves. In 2019, a study published in Scientific Reports found cats were even capable of ...