Poppy can be a rather stand-offish cat. She doesn’t sit on laps, she hates to be picked up to the point of anxiety. She will sometimes fix me with a curious, pensive gaze, as though trying to work out ...

Some cats seem addicted when playing with toys like laser pointers—in reality, this is often obsessive behavior. Photo: Getty Images Whether it’s food, the beloved laser pointer, or even the ...

A Dreamie-addicted cat can not only hear the rustling of a Dreamie pack from three streets away, they can distinguish between that and the – to the untutored human ear – identical crinkling of, say, a ...