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8 Tips for Safe Car Travel With Your Cat

Are you planning a road trip? Here’s an even bigger question… are you planning on taking your cat with you? For many cat parents, bringing kitty along on out-of-town trips is sometimes the only option. If that’s the case with you, here are some tips to help make the travel experience safer and a little ...

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7 Things to do Before You Bring Your New Cat Home

This is an exciting time. You’re about to bring home your very first cat. To get started on the right foot, here’s a list of 7 things you should do BEFORE you even bring the cat into the house. You are about to enter into a relationship that will hopefully last for many, many years ...

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How to Train an Outdoor Cat to Use the Litter Box

  If you’re transitioning an outdoor cat to indoor life, you may be initially concerned with how to train the cat to now start using an indoor litter box. For some cats, the transition to a litter box will be very easy but for others, it may take a little more finesse on your part. ...

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The Size of Your Cat’s Litter Box

  When it comes to choosing a litter box, it’s important to match the size of the box to the size of your cat. It’s easy to get influenced by a desire to choose a box based on whether it will fit in a certain location. In some cases that may still work out fine ...

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Resource Guarding Behavior in Cats

Being protective of resources is a natural instinct for all animals but it can become an issue when it creates stress, triggers aggression, and impacts the relationship of the companion animals in your home. Resource guarding can be triggered by a concern for the availability of food, favorite resting areas, toys, the litter box, and ...

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How to Change Brands of Litter

  Cats take comfort in predictability and routine and if you want to avoid creating unnecessary stress, it’s important to keep that in mind when you’re planning on introducing anything unfamiliar. You may think I’m only referring to major changes, but for many cats, even a minor change can be upsetting. The type of litter ...

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Create a Peaceful Mealtime for Your Cat

create a peaceful mealtime for your cat

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 ...

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Teach Your Kitten to Enjoy Being Touched

  Listen to the audio version of this article You’ve just brought a new kitten home to the family. Although it’s loads of fun to watch this revved up little character run, tumble, and explore everything, you need to start the training process right away. Many cat parents are good at kitten-proofing the home, teaching ...

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