A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, ...

The company will aim to enroll 50 cats in the study. A biopharmaceutical company is looking for ways to slim down household pets. Okava Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco based company, plans to ...

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 ...

Genetic evidence has revealed that domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe and East Asia in the past 2000 years, more recently than previously thought. Domestic cats (Felis catus ...

Local anesthesia is a main component of orthopedic procedures in companion animals. In this context, peripheral nerve blocks are being increasingly used as an alternative to epidural anesthesia for ...

Francine the cat, described as "a beacon of the community," is finally home after a desperate search for several weeks by her community. Francine, Richmond, Virginia's "unofficial mascot," calls a ...

Abdul Raheem grew up with a dog. He was not a cat person. “My family told me cats were mean, cats were dirty, so we were never allowed to have any cats,” he says. He thought they didn’t really like ...

I’m a cat mom of two, and I have to admit, leaving them alone makes me anxious. When I tell people that, they say, “They’re just cats, they’ll be fine.” But Luna and Sirius are my babies, and they can ...

Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Cats may have a reputation for independence, but ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Davis, have completed the first clinical trial of a new cancer drug in pet cats, offering hope for a disease ...