cat lifestyle
- Behavior
How Many Cat Naps is Too Many?
Cat behaviorist Jennifer Van de Kieft on what’s normal and what’s not.
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- Behavior
Why Does My Cat Wake Me Up At the Crack of Dawn?
A cat pawing at your face at 4 a.m. is hard to ignore, but cat behaviorist Cristin Tamburo suggests you try.
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- Lifestyle
The Pros & Cons of Adding a Second Pet to the Fam
Double the trouble or double the fun? Dog trainer Lindsay Hamrick weighs in.
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- Health
5 Ways to Care For Your Senior Cat
From taking them to the vet more often to giving them a hand with grooming, older kitties need a little extra TLC.
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- Lifestyle
How to Rehome Your Pet With Ease (and Minimal Tears)
When you realize your home or lifestyle is not a good fit for your pet, you’re put in an unenviable position. But it doesn’t have to be a lose-lose.
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- Shopping
Ashley Williams’ Puppy Sweaters Are So Punk Rock
Match your dog in the buzzed-about designer’s graphic knit patterns of pentagrams, spiders, and teddy bears.
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- Shopping
Where to Find Sylvie’s Très Chic Cat Food Bowl From Emily in Paris
We found three cat bowls inspired by the French feline’s crockery.
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- Lifestyle
Curl Up with a Book and a Kitten at Pillow-Cat Books
The East Village indie bookshop curates animal-centric publications from Beatrix Potter and Louis Wain to avant-garde manga zines and black-and-white photo tomes.
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- Lifestyle
10 Most Popular Cat Names of 2021
What the Wildest readers’ most popular cat names say about 2021.
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- Lifestyle
The Wildest, Wrapped
Our first year in review, from top-read articles and celebrity features to most-popular Instagram and TikTok posts!
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- Shopping
Pretty Litter Has Beauty and Brains
At long last, a litter that’s for more than just scooping.
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- Health
Holiday Safety Tips for Overly Festive Felines
Chances are, your cat is already plotting some Christmas chaos. Fear not, veterinarian Dr. Aimee Simpson has tips on how to safeguard your holiday spirit and your pet.
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- Lifestyle
A Pet Parent’s Guide to Holiday Tipping
Tipping your pet care providers isn’t often expected, but it is always appreciated.
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- Shopping
5 Calming Products to Help Your Cat Cope with the Holiday Chaos
Because New Year’s Eve is never a silent night.
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- Lifestyle
Artist Livia Fălcaru on Felines, Feelings, and Dream Fashion Collabs
“I just simply like the idea of cats and their specific things. Throwing in a cat is something that comes naturally now when I make an illustration.”
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- Lifestyle
Sofie Birkin on Making Art That’s Feminist, Fantastical & Sprinkled with Animals
“I think the relationship between a woman and her animal companion can build out a character a lot — they’re more like witches’ familiars than pets.”
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- Lifestyle
Photographer Bridget Badore & Queso Share Zodiac Signs, Personal Spaces, Lots of Feelings
“When I bring out my camera she tries to fight me, which is a shame because she really does know how to find her light.”
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- Shopping
Mau Design Fierce Furniture for Cats Who Are Wild at Heart
Sustainable home decor for “tree cats,” “bush cats” and every little lion in between.
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- Shopping
Predict Your New Year with Cat-Themed Tarot Cards
A whimsical tarot deck inspired by something more mysterious than cartomancy — cats.
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- Lifestyle
How Covid Changed My Relationship with My Cat
The pandemic turned me into a morning person and my cat into a mama’s boy.
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- Lifestyle
Giving Pets as Gifts: How to Go About it the Right Way
If you’re thinking about gifting a loved one with a puppy or kitten, read this expert advice first.
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- Holiday
Unique Holiday Gifts for Cat Lovers
For every cat, there’s a cat lover. And for every cat lover, there’s a perfect gift waiting to be uncovered.
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- Shopping
Must Read: Queer Icons and Their Cats
Striking photographs and captivating anecdotes about LGBTQ+ trailblazers and their feline friends, from Freddie Mercury and Janis Joplin to Alison Bechdel and Tig Notaro.
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- Lifestyle
Comic Relief with Sam Reece & Emma Stone
The comedy writer and craft enthusiast talks about her celebrity doppelgänger tabby cat.
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- Behavior
How to Introduce Your Cat to Your Partner
Take things slow, according to cat behaviorist Jennifer Van de Kieft.
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- Holiday
10 Holiday Gifts Shelter Pets Are Wishing For
Animals without homes for the holidays have still been good boys and girls! Giving them toys will give you all the feels.
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- Health
How Will I Know When It’s Time?
End-of-life veterinary specialist Dr. Shea Cox on how to make the most difficult decision in your pet parenting journey.
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- Shopping
How to Travel With a Cat (Without a Scratch)
Everything you need to bring your kitty home for the holidays, from an in-cabin carrier to calming products to a portable litter box.
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- Holiday
Catluminati’s Holiday Gift Picks for His Cat Scamper
The TikTok star endorses everyone’s favorite floppy fish, a jungle-themed playhouse, and a heated bed as gifts cat parents can’t go wrong with.
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- Behavior
6 Foolproof Steps to Litter Train Your Cat
If you do nothing else, teach your cat to poop in their litter box (not your shoe).
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- Behavior
Is Your Cat SAD?
4 tips to beat seasonal depression in cats, according to veterinary behaviorist Dr. Leanne Lilly.
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- Health
Something Scarier Than Halloween? Ok, Heartworm It Is.
Cats face extra challenges when it comes to this parasite. A veterinarian explains.
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- Lifestyle
Cats Are the Real Stars of the Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the quirky artist famous for his fanciful illustrations of cats.
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- Lifestyle
Artist Gary Baseman on Late Cat Blackie & New Kitten Bosko
“Blackie was a friend and a collaborator. I never saw him as a pet and I don’t see Bosko as one either — they are family members.”
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- Holiday
What Moshow is Gifting His Cat Co-Stars
The cat rapper is wrapping up electric mice, laser pointers, and silvervine sticks this holiday season.
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- Shopping
Jason Wu x Cat Person Is Oh So Chic
“My cats are kind of like my best friends. I wanted to design accessories and cat care items that a human being would want to use.”
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- Lifestyle
Happy Fourth of July. Here’s How to Stay Safe, Party Animals
Celebrate your freedom, prevent your pet’s.
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- Lifestyle
6 Ways to Help Your Local Animal Shelter
Adopting is awesome. But there are myriad other ways you can make a difference, from fostering kitties to photographing pups.
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- Lifestyle
Google’s Pet Portrait App Finds Your Pet’s Historical Doppelgänger
If you’ve ever wondered what your cat would look like during the Renaissance, your time has come.
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- Shopping
Abram Engle’s Gift Guide For Cat Parents
The TikTok star tells us his holiday gift picks for his kitty co-star, Kurt.
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- Shopping
The Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals For Cats
If you’re looking to treat your cat to a little something special this holiday season, we’ve got you covered.
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- Lifestyle
10 Usual Suspects at Thanksgiving & How to Save Your Pet From Them
Because you really need to stop Aunt Beth from trying to give your cat wine.
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- Shopping
Behind the Brand: Tuft+Paw
Chic, sculptural cat furniture inspired by cat behavior and tested at cat cafés.
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- Shopping
A Cat-Safe Christmas Tree Doesn’t Exi...
The Sill’s “holiday cactus” is actually less prickly than a pine.
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- Shopping
Green Girl Leah’s Favorite Eco-Friendly Cat Products
The environmentalist shares her sustainable product recos, from recycled catnip toys to organic cat grass to biodegradable kitty litter.
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- Shopping
Fall’s Trendiest Knitwear Is...For Your Cat
At long last, you and your cat can rock matching designer sweater vests.
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- Shopping
Automatic Litter Boxes Work For Many Cats (Just Not Mine)
I introduced my cat to an automatic litter box and let’s just say it went off with multiple hitches.
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- Shopping
Think Like a Cat When Choosing a Litter Box
So you can go back to not thinking about litter boxes.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Moshow, Queen Sushi, DJ Ravioli, MegaMam, Lil Parmesan & Black $avage
Moshow “the Cat Rapper” on cat love, TikTok, and fans (a.k.a. his feline family).
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- Shopping
How to Kit Out Your New Cat
All the cat adoption essentials you need, recommended by real pet parents.
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- Lifestyle
7 Tips For Finding A Pet-Friendly Rental
Searching for pet-friendly housing but it’s slim pickings? Reading this should be your first move.
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- Behavior
Help, My Cat Hates My Partner
We asked a cat behaviorist how to help your pet warm up to your new love interest.
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- Behavior
Why Do Cats Raise a Paw for No Reason?
Are they saying “Hi” or trying to high five? Cat behaviorists decode your pet’s cryptic hand signal.
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- Lifestyle
How Flatbush Cats is Saving Brooklyn’s Strays
Ad agency strategist Will Zweigart founded a nonprofit to tackle the neighborhood’s street cat epidemic.
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- Shopping
The Best Cat Hair Removal Products to Comb Through
Cat hair...everywhere? These essential tools will whisk it away.
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- Lifestyle
The Bewitching History of Black Cats and Halloween
How witches, the original cat ladies, and their feline familiars became culturally bound to All Hallows’ Eve.
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- Lifestyle
Instructions for My Cat Sitter
“Frank is great at hiding. Do not look for him. It’s a trap.”
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- Lifestyle
5 Ways to Have a Feline-Friendly Halloween
You know what they say: If a black cat crosses your path…it’s probably heading home.
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- Lifestyle
How to Move with a Cat (and Keep Yowling to a Minimum)
Cat behaviorist Cristin Tamburo’s pro tips on how to survive a week in a car with not one, but two cats.
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- Lifestyle
A Star is Born: 11 Tiktok Challenges to Turn Your Kitty Into an Influencer
The TikTok challenges you can do with your cat and a little spare time.
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- Shopping
So, You Want to Dress Your Cat Up for Halloween
The best costumes that you and your cat’s Instagram followers will get a kick out of.
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- Lifestyle
How to DIY a Catio
Cat behaviorist Cristin Tamburo’s tips for building a safe outdoor space for your cat.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Kim-Joy, Inki & Mochi
The quirky, Insta-famous baker and The Great British Bake-Off star on her adopted kitten littermates and their fascination with watching her knead dough.
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- Health
How to Prepare Your Pet For a Natural Disaster
A vet breaks down what to include in an emergency go-bag for your pet.
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- Health
7 Steps to Keep Your New Kitten Happy and Healthy
With great cuteness comes great responsibility! We’ve got you — a vet breaks down everything you need to know when you bring home a new kitten.
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- Lifestyle
Why Senior Cats Make the Best Roommates
Kitten, please! I adopted a couple of seniors because cats, like wine, only get better with age.
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- Lifestyle
Why You Should Adopt a “Less Adoptable” Cat
It’s Adopt a Less-Adoptable Pet Week! Here’s why bonded kitties, senior cats, and felines with FIV make just as amazing pets as any other.
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- Behavior
The Cat Breed-Behavior Connection
Which cats are more likely to have stranger danger? Bite the hand that feeds them? Do the zoomies? Scientists studied 5,700 pet cats and discovered some interesting traits.
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- Lifestyle
How to Walk (a Cat) on the Wild Side
An Adventure Cat’s mom talks harness training, safety tips, and her kitty being mistaken for a raccoon.
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- Behavior
Welcome to the Jungle: How to Introduce a New Cat to Your Pets
Feels high stakes because it kind of is.
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- Lifestyle
Will My Cat Miss Me When I Go Back to Work?
Believe it or not, cats care when you leave them alone. A behaviorist offers 5 tips to make post-pandemic life easier on them.
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- Lifestyle
Black Cats: Good Luck Charms or Bad Omens?
August 17th is Black Cat Appreciation Day. Let’s dispel some silly superstitions that haunt them.
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- Lifestyle
How to Photograph Your Pet Like a Pro
The world needs cute pet pics. Here are 5 tips to go from amateur to Annie Leibovitz.
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- Lifestyle
Virgo Season is For Animal Lovers
Astrologer David Odyssey looks to Fiona Apple and Freddie Mercury to divine what Virgo season reveals about your dearest pet relationships.
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- Lifestyle
Pet Sounds: Musicians & Their Muses
From Swifty to Billie to Lil Nas X, these artists are loud and proud about their pet groupies.
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- Lifestyle
Pet Tattoos Are the New Couples Ink
Tattoo artist Evan Kim on why pet ink is the ultimate (and unregrettable) homage. Plus, 15 of the raddest dog and “cattoos” on the Gram.
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- Behavior
Your Twitchy Cat Could Be Dreaming or Spasming
The top 3 reasons why cats twitch in their sleep, according to a vet.
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- Behavior
30 Strange Signs My Cat is Happy
September is National Happy Cat Month. From puking on your least favorite shoes to biting you less (not zero, just less), here are all the ways to tell if your cat is actually happy.
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- Lifestyle
Meet “Nathan the Cat Lady” — Model, Actor, Cat Dad Extraordinaire
For Nathan Kehn, building cat forts, scooping litter boxes, and traveling the country to rescue stray kitties is all in a day’s work.
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- Lifestyle
Kittens! Coffee! Cuddles!
Run, don’t walk to Tiny Beans, an adoptable kitten café pop up in Venice.
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- Lifestyle
Aspiring Bodega Cat? Inquire Within.
NYC needs these essential workers for tasks that include hissing at customers, ensuring toilet paper is scratched up, and keeping unruly rodents (and dogs) in check.
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- Lifestyle
How to Help Animals Impacted by Hurricane Ida
Hundreds of dogs, cats, and rabbits have been evacuated. These front-line organizations need donations, fosters, and adopters.
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- Lifestyle
Tips for Re-Entering Society, According to My Cat
After 18+ months of social isolation, here are some helpful tips for reacclimatizing to the world from an expert on social awkwardness — my cat.
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- Lifestyle
My Cat’s Morning Screams™️, Translated
What I think my cat is trying to tell me at the crack of dawn. Every. Single. Morning.
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- Shopping
12 Trippy Catnip Toys, Treats and...Bubbles
Let the purring, drooling, and chasing invisible butterflies commence.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Katya Krasnova & Tor
The Kiev-born, LA-based artist talks surreal cat tattoos and mondo Maine Coons.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Momoko Suzuki & Coco
The Black Crane designer’s creature comforts include voluminous jumpsuits, vintage trappings, and a delightfully insouciant rescue cat.
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- Lifestyle
Group Therapy for Pets? Only on Fox’s HouseBroken
A therapy dog leads a support group for neurotic pets — starring comedy heavyweights Lisa Kudrow, Tony Hale, Jason Mantzoukas, and more.
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- Lifestyle
Photographer Jason Nocito’s Pet Portrait Tips
The photographer who’s shot everyone from Billie Eilish to Lil Wayne shares his Pet Portrait-mode tips via an Apple Virtual Studio sesh.
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- Lifestyle
If You Build It, Cats Will Come
What happens when you juxtapose curvy cats and blocky buildings? Meet the architecture buffs behind IG sensation Cats of Brutalism.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Caitlin Mociun & Cleo
The cult jewelry designer and boutique owner talks about her beautiful Bengal cat.
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- Lifestyle
Wild Ones: Sydnee Washington, Jam & Jelly
The comedian-actress talks about her twinning cats, being a “hot cat dad,” and...a new puppy?!
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- Lifestyle
8 Pet-Safe Plants Your Cat Can Veg Out On
Cats love the crunch of a houseplant. These will do them no harm.
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Everything You Need to Throw Your Cat a Party
For their birthday or gotcha day or…do you need a reason?
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- Behavior
How Catnip Blisses Out Cats
Let your cat turn on, tune in, and drop out. Don’t worry — a vet approves.
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- Health
A Cautionary Tale About a Cat in Heat
Experts explain why you should spay or neuter your kitten. Don’t learn the hard way like I did.
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