Cat play biting can come as a shock. One minute playtime with your furry friend is all fun and games, then they suddenly give you a painful nip. Perhaps you have a multi-cat household and are ...

How do cats play with each other? As a vet, I am often asked this question – especially by cat owners who are introducing a new feline into the household or trying to figure out if their cats ...

While cats can’t tell time like humans, they have internal biological clocks and keen senses that help them anticipate ...

Credit: Getty Images/Viktoriya Skorikova Wondering how to play with a cat without cat toys? Sometimes you might not have your kitty's favorite plaything handy or you may simply want to mix things ...

Past studies had focused on a cat's play activity, such as whether it was playing with a toy or another cat. But such observation yields little insight into the function of such play and ...

So you'd never see a cat playing fetch like a dog, right? Wrong. That sort of play behavior is more common than you might think—one of our cats was an avid fetcher in her younger years ...

The research, an analysis of online survey responses from nearly 1,000 pet owners, sheds light on the often murky, understudied world of cat play and behavior. “As far as I know, it’s among ...

In an online survey, we asked owners of cats who play fetch about this behaviour. Almost all of these cats (94.4%) had not been trained to fetch, and most were young (less than one year old ...

Part of the reason for this, she believes, is because of her orange cat named Ronald. In her February 4 TikTok video, Libby explained how she never saw Ronald play, but that day, she discovered ...

But a new, first-of-its-kind study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that they're not the only pets that like the game: Cats play fetch, too, just on their own unique terms. Academics at the ...