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7 Ways to Treat Your Cats Like Royalty

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Being treated like royalty comes naturally to cats. Most of us have been trained by our feline family  members to be their loyal servants and cater to their every whim. If there’s ever a question about who’s really in charge, cats are quick to remind us that it’s certainly not us!

Perhaps this expectation of royal treatment dates back to ancient Egypt, where cats were worshipped as gods. Perhaps it’s simpl...

How the Assisi Therapy Pad Helps Henry with Multiple Health Issues, Including Irritable Bowel Disease

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14-year-old  Henry shares his life with Harry and Julie Shubin and six other cats in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC. He has been sick for at least half his life.

Multiple health challenges

“He should have been dead at least twice,” Harry told me. “It started with a couple of unusual infections, mycoplasma and Bordetella, when he was 7. Then, about 5 years ago, I saw him drinking a lot, and he was diagnosed with diabetes.” Henry needed insulin. Harry...

Conscious Cat Sunday: Say No

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Mews and Nips: A Street Cat Named Bob Sequel to Start Filming Later This Year

If you’re like me and can’t get enough of James Bowen and his street cat named Bob, I have some exciting news for you: A Gift From Bob, the sequel to the 2016 movie A Street Cat Named Bob, will start filming later this year. Directed by Charles Martin Smith, the film will likely be released toward the end of 2020. I has not been announced whether Luke Treadaway (shown in the background of the above photo) will resume the role of James Bowen. For more about the sequel, visit

If you mi...

Review: Texts from Mittens: The Friends and Family Edition

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Mittens is back! The internet’s favorite texting cat and his cast of friends and family, including Earl (the “filthy hound”), Stumpy (the best friend), Drunk Patty (the usually tipsy next-door neighbor), Grandma (giver of treats), and Fiona (Mitty’s girlfriend) will entertain you in Texts from Mittens: The Friends and Family Edition.

Angie Bailey’s quirky sense of humor is a delight. The text exchanges between Mittens and his human will make you chuckle and laugh out...

Giveaway: Motivated by Cats and Caffeine Sweatshirt, Winner Chooses Color

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I’ve long been a fan of Gulf Coast T-Shirts. Founders Toni and Mark Nicholson design amazing t-shirts, sweatshirts, tank tops and tote bags, and, since they’re both huge animal lovers, many of their designs feature cats. 13-year-old Abby, who they rescued from the top of a tree at a local park when she was 6 weeks old, assists with everything from modeling to packing orders to making sure that each order comes with a little bit of cat hair.

Study Shows Cats Bond With Caregivers Just as Much as Infants

The results of the first empirical study on the connection between cats and humans probably come as no surprise to those of us who share our lives with cats: Cats bond with their caregivers to a similar degree as infants and dogs.

In the study, researchers used an abbreviated version of the “secure base test” previously used to assess attachment in dogs and infants. At the start of the experiment, a cat and its caregiver spend 2 minutes together in an unfamiliar environment. The human then...

Haunted House Cat Scratcher

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Just in time for Halloween, treat your kitties to this ASPCA Haunted Cat House with a scratching pad.

Measuring  19.5 by 14 x 11 inches, this scratcher is easy to assemble and comes with organic catnip.

And if you’d like to plan ahead, how about the same scratcher in a Gingerbread House version!

The Haunted House (and Gingerbread House) scratchers are available from Amazon.

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Winner of an Autographed Copy of Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words

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Congratulations, Cassandra D! You won an autographed copy of Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words.

Look for an email from Ingrid.*

Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words is available from Amazon.

*Winners are selected by random drawing. Winners need to provide a physical address to which the prize will be mailed within 72 hours of receipt of notification e-mail or announcement of winner’s name(s) on The Conscious Cat. If this information is not...

Ask the Cat Doc: Brushing a Kitten’s Teeth, Cat with Bad Breath, Cat with Mats

Welcome to our regular “Ask the Cat Doc With Dr. Lynn Bahr” segment! Once a month, Dr. Bahr answers as many of your questions as she can, and you can leave new questions for her in a comment.

Dr. Bahr graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991. Unlike most veterinarians, she did not grow up knowing that she would become a veterinarian. “It was a cat who got me interested in the practice and I am forever grateful to him,” said Dr. Bahr. Over the course of...