Domestic cat news, features and articles

Several key genes dictate whether a house cat will have stripes, spots or neither.

Meowing is a tool to get you to do their bidding.

Researchers compared the skulls of domesticated house cats to the skulls of their closest wild ancestor, and found that cat brains are definitely shrinking.

How do cats navigate around rooms in the dark?

Cats create "mental maps" using audio cues, scientists have discovered. This enables cats to spatially orient unseen companions, an ability that was previously unknown in felines.

Cats may be able to remember the names of cohabitating cats — but it depends where they live, new research suggests.

Cats that have an extreme response to catnip may look like they're experiencing euphoria.

Here's why cats 'play' with their prey before dealing the death blow.

Here's the science behind the so-called "cat gap," a roughly 7 million-long period in North America in which there aren't any known cat fossils.