Humans and dogs have been up in each other's business since, oh, before the dawn of recorded history. The friendship/grudging mutual arrangement between humans and cats, however, is a more recent affair, long thought to date to roughly 1950 B.C. Turns out they've maybe been putting up with us even longer, though!
Meet Mercury. He was found just a few days old, the bulk of his front two legs missing. Now he's a half-grown kitten who scampers around like a tiny tabby T-Rex.
Bulk Cat Litter Warehouse puts it this way: "Most direct mail never gets looked at." True! But Vancouver ad agency Rethink Canada came up with a super smart way to make sure cat owners noticed their flyers: They printed them on catnip paper.
Bit of bummer for cat fanciers: After analyzing over a million health records, researchers have found that cat bites are disproportionately correlated with depression. This, right on the heels of the news that your fuzzywuzzykins' teeth are pretty much germ-coated needles.
Snowflakes: you are all singular, special individuals, but you, collectively, fall into some pretty predictable data patterns when it comes to political affiliation.
Are you tired of lousy weather reports delivered by cheesy so-called weathermen who promise sunny skies only to leave you stranded at the beach in a torrential downpour? Looking for a more reliable source for accurate weather predictions? Well, look no further than your favorite house cat. (I'll wait. He's probably…
More than 65 cats have taken over a mobile home in (where else?) Florida. It's a sad situation of animal hoarding, but the photos! Those cats do not give a fuck.
I love adorable kitty-cats as much as the next non-monster, but, as the poets say: "Just because you love something doesn't mean it can't deliver a necrotic puncture wound that will cause your extremities to rot off!" A new study on the dangers of cat bites found that, while dog bites might be more crushing and dramatic, …
I don't know what to think about this. I don't like breeders and I don't like cats, but these spooky lycoi cats are something else. A cat that looks like a werewolf and, according to its Tennessee-based human creators, acts like a dog. I have to admit they are quite cute in their freaky ugliness. Like a reverse evil…
The cat lovers might want to sit down, because this is gonna be a doozy. There is, it turns out, an animal shelter in Pennsylvania where children regularly read picture books to shelter cats. The kids get to practice their reading skills, while soothing and helping socialize the kitties.
"A Cat's Guide To Loving A Human" is the cat video to end all cat videos, in that now we finally have a true insight into how they think and why they do the things they do.
One morning in 2011, Woosie the cat disappeared—just walked away from it all. His owners gave him up for a goner, but this week they got a call from the vet, telling them to come pick up their pet. Turns out he'd been living it up at a pastry factory the entire time, because he's a GENIUS.
Is this the Internet's next viral kitty star? Meet Meatball (!!), a 36-pound cat that the Phoenix's Maricopa County Animal Care & Control shelter picked up, after he couldn't fit into a standard kennel. The shelter is trying to find an organization that deals with overweight cats to take him. Good luck, Meatball!
If there's one thing Downton Abbey could definitely use, it's more cats. It's not like Mrs. Patmore is chasing the mice out of her storeroom all by her lonesome.
Tired? Stressed? Unprepared for the work week? Dreading another bout of polar temperatures? Let Lil BUB lighten your burden. After the runaway success of her hour-long YouTube Yule Log, she's back with a followup: two minutes of "one-on-one facetime."
Very important cat news: San Francisco is apparently getting a cat cafe, cleverly named KitTea. Try not to crash Kayak booking your plane tickets all at once!
Did you leave a pair of old jeans laying around, only to wonder what was that ridiculous, cuddly blob scampering out of the pocket? Yes, that's what kittens do to [INSERT NAME OF INANIMATE OBJECT HUMANS LEAVE LYING AROUND]. So you should expect it.
This is baby Hazel and she likes to snuggle with the cats in her home. Sometimes, the cats help out around the human house by giving little Hazel a bath, because I guess even our cat overlords like to give back now and then.
In case you had any doubt about the impending war with our cat overlords, this picture should finally convince you that yes, we are in fact doomed.
Watching cats get squirmy and glassy-eyed when they're "on the nip," as the kittens say, is weird, especially if you are willing to believe that you — and your seemingly meaningless daily contortions — are your cat's source of entertainment, and become 1,000 times more entertaining when your cat is stoned.
