If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t know how to do in artificial intelligence. “But my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,” you may think.

Modern cat furniture doesn’t have to be an eyesore. The newest pet-friendly designs to catch our eye is this super-chic collection by Japan’s Okawa Kagu.

It’s becoming ever clearer that we live in a microbial world. By now, we are well aware that microbes play important roles in digestion, training the immune system, and protection from pathogens. Although many studies have been done in model organisms like mice, some researchers are now asking similar questions about the microbiota of other animals in the hopes that this could help us take better care of our furry friends.

A sneaky feline from Texas was put in solitary confinement because he kept freeing his cat friends from the shelter.

Russia's Aeroflot on Tuesday (Nov 12) stripped a passenger of his air miles after he boasted online of sneaking his overweight cat on board by switching him for a slimmer cat during check-in.

Carol O'Connell had been watching Tiger roam around her neighborhood for three years before she managed to get close enough to the cat.

Nancy Segula lives in Ohio, in the Garfield Heights area, where feeding stray animals is against the law. But that didn’t stop her from helping out a few cats when her neighbor abandoned them.

Many of us will have experienced that super friendly cat who seems to love being stroked one minute, only to bite or swipe at us the next.

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a ban on the practice of declawing cats. Supporters of the measure say declawing is cruel and painful. They say cats rely on their paws and claws to groom themselves and to help protect and defend their bodies. The practice involves amputating a cat’s toes to the first knuckle.

You know that petting your dog feels good, now science is backing you up. A recent study conducted by Washington State University scientists found that cuddling and stroking a cat or dog for just a few minutes can reduce your cortisol levels. “Just 10 minutes can have a significant impact,” Patricia Pendry, an associate professor in WSU’s Department of Human Development, said in a statement. “Students in our study that interacted with cats and dogs had a significant reduction in cortisol, a major stress hormone.”

We dote on our cats and dogs, but is it a one-way relationship? Here’s what science tells us about how to decode their emotions, whether they are avoiding us or getting a little too amorous with our legs

‘Human error’ blamed for livestreamed briefing in which officials appeared as cats

New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under legislation heading to a vote in the state Legislature. The Senate and Assembly are both expected to take up the bill on Tuesday. Declawing a cat is already illegal in much of Europe as well as in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver.

Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own

RIP Grumpy.

Some very sad news. Grumpy Cat, the Internet’s most famous feline with a perpetually grouchy mug, has died. Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, died on Tuesday...

Social cognition researchers are finally probing the secrets of the feline mind—when the cats deign to cooperate

A law banning puppy and kitten farming, which campaigners hope will end the practice by some unscrupulous breeders of keeping animals constantly pregnant and often in dirty and cramped conditions, is to be laid by the government. The change, expected to come into force in April 2020, will mean young cats and dogs can no longer be sold by a pet shop or commercial dealer unless they have bred them.

We all know that cats love to look down on their human owners with disdain, but we never think they’re actually going to turn their tails up on us and leave, especially when we hold all the bargaining chips as their ever-loving carers who lavish them with pats, warmth, and never-ending bowls of food and water.

The embassy of Ecuador in London has lost two — not one — of its most high-profile guests in recent times. One is Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was arrested on charges of skipping bail in a UK court after seven years of asylum within the embassy. The other is Assange’s cat, better known as Embassy Cat, a social media phenomenon often seen wearing a tie in pictures posted by Assange.