April 29th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
Water is important to the health of your cat and how you present and serve it can have a big influence on whether kitty drinks it or rejects it. Here are six tips for making sure the water you serve is appealing: 1. Freshness Refill the bowl with fresh water on a daily basis. Cats [...]
March 6th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition |
A video was recently released from the American Chemical Society that offers an explanation as to why cats don’t seem to care for sweet flavors. The video was produced at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. Apparently, it all comes down to kitties having a broken gene.
December 31st, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
For your cat, mealtime should be healthy, tasty, peaceful and secure. Many cat parents focus on the first two things but don’t pay enough attention to the last two. When your cat walks over to the food bowl she shouldn’t have to worry about whether she can eat in peace or whether she’s going to [...]
October 16th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
When it comes to feeding your cat there are many foods you should avoid so this list is by no means a complete one but here are some foods that you may be surprised to learn are toxic or unhealthy when it comes to feline nutrition. Onions Onions can be lethally toxic. Onions destroy the [...]
September 21st, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
I am always amazed at the number of overweight cats I see during my in-home behavior consultations. What’s even more surprising is that many of the cat parents are unaware that their cats are even considered to be overweight. Many people also don’t realize that many of the health risks associated with obesity in humans [...]
August 10th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Health |
The ingredients in pet food can be so confusing. AAFCO, which stands for the Association of American Feed Control Officials establishes guidelines for production, package labeling and sale of pet foods. AAFCO has two standards and the pet food labels state which of the two standards they’ve met. One standard states that a particular pet [...]
August 9th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
Here are 10 common mistakes some cat parents make when it comes to feeding cats: 1. Dog Food It may come as a surprise as to why someone would feed dog food to a cat but it happens more often than you’d think. Many times, it just becomes easier in a multipet household to let the [...]
May 10th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
If you have a cat who is allowed access to the outdoors, I’m sure that at some point you’ve probably seen her nibbling on a few blades of grass in your yard. I’m also sure that immediately afterward you’ve probably seen her throw that grass right back up. It might seem odd that kitty would [...]
April 26th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health, Unwanted Behavior, What's Bugging Kitty? |
Wool sucking is a behavior that some cats engage in when they were weaned too abruptly or too early as kittens. You may notice these cats sucking on shoelaces, earlobes, other companion animals’ tails, wool blankets, socks, etc. In many cases, the cat eventually outgrows the wool sucking behavior but in other cases, it becomes [...]
April 12th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Eating and Nutrition, Featured Posts, Health |
Not all cats do this, but if yours does, the behavior may have been puzzling to you. It’s a relatively common behavior and not one you need to worry about. The behavior typically looks the same as if the cat is trying to bury waste. You may notice him scraping his front paw on the [...]
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