He's a frequent guest on the Bear Creek Feline Center's TikTok page. The Florida exotic wild cat sanctuary is home to a host ...

Ramona Turner, a veterinarian specializing in feline care for 25 years, owns two Fresno, California–based animal hospitals. She answers this riddle about our furry friends' strange behavior. Cats, ...

Cats act high when they're given catnip because, well, they are. Researchers say that catnip and another plant, silver vine, produce a chemical that activates their opioid reward systems. Even if you ...

It was foggy and abnormally warm on the wet deck this past Thursday morning as dawn began to break. I had gone out there to listen for the night calls of migrant birds as they dropped from the sky ...

Q: How can I fix catnip for my cat to enjoy? A: First you have to dry your herbs, on screens or by hanging them upside down. They require good air circulation, in the dark or at least out of direct ...

Though we may call catnip "kitty crack," the herb is non-addictive and isn't even a drug (so it's perfectly safe to give to your kitty, big or small). But how does it work? And why doesn't it have any ...

For many cats, a mere whiff of catnip can send them into a licking, rolling, plant-shredding frenzy. Masao Miyazaki, a biologist at Iwate University in Morioka, Japan, and his colleagues analyzed the ...

Cats enjoy simple pleasures like bird murder and sitting in squares, but nothing beats getting laced with catnip. The latter is the focus of a study published Monday in Nature Chemical Biology, which ...

Catnip and silver vine have been known as cat attractant plants. Cat lovers use dry leaves of these plants and toys stuffed with the leaves to give joy to their pet cats. But how does this work? What ...

The frenzied behavior your feline friends exhibit when graced with catnip’s presence is no unusual sight to see. But now, new research out of Japan says cats aren’t just trying to get high, they’re ...

Does your cat, an otherwise aloof and graceful creature, go whacky for catnip? Then they are one of the 70 per cent of domestic cats, as well as some big cats like lions, who do. But how has this ...