Looking back at some of the picks we made this season, including a list of what we got right and wrong (and why).

The company will aim to enroll 50 cats in the study. A biopharmaceutical company is looking for ways to slim down household pets. Okava Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco based company, plans to ...

It seems that wherever I look there are stories about weight. There are people on ‘the pen’ (my children tell me that this is what you say if you are taking a fat reducing jab) which has definitely ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday. Flat-headed cats are among ...

A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, ...

Experts estimate that more than half of the world’s pet cats are overweight — and now the flabby tabbies might soon have their own version of Ozempic. Pet meds company OKAVA Pharmaceuticals has ...

Feeling as if you're man doesn't listen? Cats might agree. A new study shows that they meow more when greeting men than women who return home. Research published in the journal Ethology found that ...

Cats are popular pets. Last week my college-aged son resumed his annual campaign to get him a kitten. We finally caved. The Shepherd household is now the proud owner of a cute kitten named Nova. We ...

As many cat owners will testify, their pets are often mysterious creatures, independent, cunning and sometimes aloof. And now it appears that when it comes to communication, they might be playing ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...