I guess you could say I've seen my fair share of litter box configurations--I'm no spring kitten--but I'd never heard of some of these "green" litters before I started my research. So if you're a kitty or two-legged that's experienced with any of the options below, tell me if they work! Read full post.

My humans have this embarrassing story they love to tell--the one about me as a kitten, climbing up the living room curtains and sliding all the way down. And there's that time when in one afternoon my razor-sharp claws completely obliterated the left leg of the couch.

I was young. I didn't know any better. But now me and my humans understand that cats scratch to shed the outer part of our claws, and that it's more or less a force of nature: you can't stop it; you can only redirect it to appropriate surfaces.Read full post.

This morning the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine released their latest Veterinarian Newsletter with these recalls that our furry and feathered friends should know about. Forgive me for listing the cat vitamin recall first; I am a bit partial to my own species!

Cats & Kittens: salmonella in Hartz Vitamins

Hartz Mountain Corporation of Secaucus, NJ, is carrying out a firm-initiated Class I recall of 888 bottles of Hartz Vitamin Care for Cats and Kittens chewable tablets. The product, which was distributed nationwide, tested positive for the presence of Salmonella. Read full post.

I'm a mostly indoor cat so I don't have to go on walks to do my business, but if I did, I think this is how I'd do it.

Of course, if we had pasture room for a pony, we'd have to think about all sorts of plants poisonous to our hooved and strictly vegetarian friends, like Read full post.

Hello, cats for the environment!

I'm Cleo, aka Eddie's BKF, and I'm going to be writing here from time to time about feline issues. Me and my smaller-pawed, less slobbery friends noticed not too long ago that despite his best intentions, Eddie occasionally forgets to mention the cat side of things. So he's asked me to step in as his Cat Editor in Chief. (Thanks, Edmund!)

So let me answer one of the first kitty questions to come up this week: cat toys Read full post.