Why do cats play with their tail? It’s a fair question from any cat owner – or, indeed, anybody who spends their time watching cat videos on the internet. This adorable and funny behavior is really ...

Are My Cats Playing or Fighting? Sometimes it’s hard to tell when your cats (especially kittens!) are playing with each other and when it’s a knock-down drag-out fight! These are interactions that are ...

If you think of a game of fetch, you might picture a dog running back and forth, eagerly retrieving a ball. But a new, first-of-its-kind study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that they're not ...

Scientists in California are hoping to learn more about cat playtime and are asking for cat parents to help them. On August 17, 2024, Gizmodo shared the study details from researchers at UC Davis.

A round of fetch brings to mind long summer days in the park with a tennis ball-obsessed dog, but this fun game isn’t canine-exclusive. While cats are better known for their stalking abilities, some ...

Cats and robots are a winning combination, as evidenced by all those videos of kitties riding on Roombas. And now we have Cat Royale, a “multispecies” live installation in which three cats regularly ...

In news that probably won’t surprise cat owners, cats that play fetch do it on their own terms. Fetching felines tend to dictate when a fetching session begins and when it ends, a survey of over 900 ...

Cats are amazing animals and popular household companions. Misunderstandings abound about who these fascinating felines truly are—some people, including researchers themselves, ridiculously mislabel ...

Fetching isn’t just for slobbery canines, new research reveals. Surveying thousands of pet owners, scientists have found that a large minority of cats do like to play fetch at least some of the time.

Researchers surveyed hundreds of people who have cats that play fetch. Though the game is typically associated with dogs, some cats enjoy it, too. They seem to like to play with toys, crumpled balls, ...

Cats may not be known for being the most-sociable animals, but one cat's adorable friendship with a ferret has melted hearts. In a post by u/graciep11 on Reddit's r/cats subreddit, Comet the cat is ...