cat research studies

Featured, Feline Diseases, Front Page News

Research Proves Having Cats Doesn’t Make You Crazy After All!

Brooke Arnold / 02/22/2017

You may recall a study that went viral a few years ago that said sharing your home with cats quite literally could make you crazy. (We didn’t actually publish this because we thought it was rubbish.) The study, by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, President of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, implied that the parasite Toxoplasma […]

Behavior, Food and Diet, Front Page News

New Research Shows Cats Are Happier When They Work for Their Food

Brooke Arnold / 09/08/2016

This is something we’ve suspected all along, but according to new research in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, cats – particularly those that are kept strictly indoors – need to be intellectually stimulated. And, it turns out, having them work for their food by solving puzzles is good for them both physically and emotionally!