Why do cats play with their tail? It’s a fair question from any cat owner – or, indeed, anybody who spends their time watching cat videos on the internet. This adorable and funny behavior is really ...

Cats are amazing animals and popular household companions. Misunderstandings abound about who these fascinating felines truly are—some people, including researchers themselves, ridiculously mislabel ...

Cat play biting can come as a shock. One minute playtime with your furry friend is all fun and games, then they suddenly give you a painful nip. Perhaps you have a multi-cat household and are ...

If you think of a game of fetch, you might picture a dog running back and forth, eagerly retrieving a ball. But a new, first-of-its-kind study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that they're not ...

A round of fetch brings to mind long summer days in the park with a tennis ball-obsessed dog, but this fun game isn’t canine-exclusive. While cats are better known for their stalking abilities, some ...

Are My Cats Playing or Fighting? Sometimes it’s hard to tell when your cats (especially kittens!) are playing with each other and when it’s a knock-down drag-out fight! These are interactions that are ...

In news that probably won’t surprise cat owners, cats that play fetch do it on their own terms. Fetching felines tend to dictate when a fetching session begins and when it ends, a survey of over 900 ...

Here are some games that are enjoyable for cats but beneficial for their overall well-being. Toys that mimic prey are particularly enticing for cats. Wand toys with feathers, strings or small stuffed ...

Animal play is fun, fair, chaotic, and serious business. The many ways in which nonhuman animals (animals) play with one another continues to intrigue many people—researchers, citizen scientists, and ...

A pet parent told Newsweek that she almost cried when she saw her cat, who "never" plays, change his ways to show the foster feline the ropes. Libby, known on TikTok as @eatingcheeseiscoolyes, ...