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  • Increase Your Cat’s Clicker Training Success Rate
  • Morsels
  • Holiday Dangers Awaiting Your Cat That You Haven’t Thought Of
  • But Does Your Cat 
Actually Need a Bath?
  • How the Cat Nose Knows
  • When Your Cat Keeps Eating Things That Aren’t Food
  • 4 Ways to Act Proactively for Your Cat
  • Dear Doctor

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  • Why You Absolutely Can’t Take a Cat Scratch or Bite Casually
  • Morsels
  • Things That Don’t Go Together With Cats
  • Integrative Geriatrics For Your Senior Cat?
  • Losing Excess Weight Does Much More Than Make a Cat Healthier
  • 3 Ways to Help a Scaredy Cat
  • Deciding How to Take a Cat’s Temperature
  • Dear Doctor

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  • Feline Arthritis Pain: The Signs Can Be Subtle
  • Morsels
  • Socializing: Cats Can Take It or Leave It
  • Turn Down the Television! And Other Ways to Keep Your Cat Happier
  • Can Your Cat Pay It Forward As a Blood Donor?
  • Nail Trimming: Not Just For Your Furniture But For Your Cat’s Safety
  • When a Cat Starts Losing Hair
  • Dear Doctor

Download The Full September 2023 Issue PDF

  • Your Cat’s Got the (Weird) Moves
  • Morsels
  • When Your Cat Naps in the Litter Box
  • Before You Take in Another Cat…
  • Rules Change for Monitoring Cats with Hyperthyroidism
  • Bored Cat? Scatter the Feline Doldrums with Agility Training
  • Keeping Cats from 
Reproducing Without Having to Spay Them
  • Dear Doctor

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  • A New Drug to Treat Itchy Feline Skin Condition
  • The One Disease Pet Health Insurance May Not Cover
  • Yes, But Why Are the Kidneys Enlarged?
  • How Often Does Your Cat Really Need Blood Work?
  • When It’s Okay to Use an Automatic Feeder to Give Your Cat Her Meals — and When It’s Not
  • With Summer Comes Territorial Urine Marking
  • Dear Doctor

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  • Softening the Blow for a Cat Mourning the Loss of Another Cat
  • Fungal Disease Spreading from Cats to People
  • No Cure for Heartworm Disease in Cats
  • 4 New Standards for 
Human Grade Cat Food
  • Why Cats Stick Out Their Tongues
  • Let Your Cat Go 
Outside — Safely
  • Caregiver Burden for People with Sick Cats
  • Dear Doctor

Fearfulness Associated with Litterbox Issues

A study of more than 3,000 house cats published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association showed that fearfulness in cats is significantly associated with urinating and defecating outside the litterbox. It’s also associated with litterbox fussiness — distinct preferences about the type of litter used and less willingness to use an unclean litter box or share it with other cats.

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  • Updated Guidelines Should Make Vet Visits Less Stressful for Cats
  • Morsels
  • When the Margins Are “Clean But Close” After Tumor Removal
  • Can You Reliably Assess Your Cat’s Pain? Yes.
  • On Spraying the Cat with Water to Make Him Stop.
  • The Right Diet For Feline Kidney Disease
  • When a Cat Dies Suddenly for an Unknown Reason, Should You Request a Necropsy?
  • Dear Doctor

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  • If Your Cat Won’t Take the Medicine, Can It Be Compounded?
  • When the Dandruff Won’t Quit
  • Fact or Erroneous Perception: Black Cats Are More Likely to End Up Euthanized
  • Getting at the Reason For Your Cat’s Twitching
  • No, You’re Not a Failure If You Give Your Cat a Psychotropic Medication
  • Could Dementia Be Making Your Cat Urinate Outside the Box?

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  • Your Growing Kitten Is Hungry —and Then Not So Much
  • Morsels: Have You Been Palpating Your Cat?; Easter No-No’s; The Vet Will See Your Cat In Person Now; My Hormones Made Me Do It.
  • New Promise for Cats with Feline Infectious Peritonitis
  • Potential Changes On Cat Food Labels Should Make Them Easier to Interpret
  • Learning How Cats Move Can Help Lead to Treatment for Human Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Acupuncture for Cats: It’s Catching On
  • Cat Facts That Aren’t
  • Dear Doctor: Fence on top of a fence to keep the cat in the yard.

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  • Falling For Your Cat, Literally
  • What’s In a Name? (A Lot, Actually)
  • Out, Damned Spot!
  • When a Cat Gets Into a Tight Spot
  • Using 3D Modeling to Heal Cats
  • Want to Avoid Disease Transmitted by Wildlife? Keep Your Cat Indoors
  • How to Keep Your Cat from Biting/Scratching
  • Some Cats Can Now Take a Pill for Diabetes Instead of Insulin Shots

Download The Full January 2023 Issue PDF

  • Baby Talk: Do Cats Like It?
  • Scruffing
  • At the Vet’s Office, Shhhhhh!
  • The Top 5 Genetic Diseases of Cats
  • If My Cat Lives Indoors, Why Does She Need a Rabies Shot?
  • Your Cat Is Not Being Bad When He Scratches
  • Should You Choose Food That’s Preservative-Free?
  • Dear Doctor