How many things have you heard compared to catnip? In the popular imagination, catnip — scientific name Nepeta cataria — has an almost magical power over all felines. Wave a piece of this plant in a cat’s general direction and the cat loses his mind. Like many generalizations, this contains only hints of truth. In …
Injection site sarcomas are just what they sound like — high-grade, life-threatening cancers that occur in cats at the sites of injections, whether vaccines or other types of shots. Veterinarians know little about what causes injection site sarcomas, so prevention strategies are difficult to determine. Here are five facts about injection site sarcomas that cat …
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A couple of years ago, the filmmaker Mark Zemel went to a cat show in Stamford, Connecticut, with his girlfriend as part of his birthday festivities. Once inside the venue, he noticed a flurry of activity taking place around a camping tent. It turned out someone had set up a photo studio inside the tent and …
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It seems as though cat-themed fashions are more prevalent this year than ever before, which says a lot about how popular cats have become. The thing I’m most excited about is that these feline-focused fashion statements go far beyond just cute and kitschy T-shirts. You can show your love of cats by wearing all kinds of …
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Catster print magazine. Click here to subscribe to Catster magazine. As a teenager growing up on a small family farm in rural southern Idaho, I worked part time at a mixed-animal practice in a neighboring town. This meant examining and treating anything the …
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