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 ...

Source: Tony Harrison, via Flickr. A few years ago, Elizabeth Renner posted a cute video of her cat on Twitter. Renner, a psychologist at Northumbria University, had captured her cat expectantly ...

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 ...

Cats tend to dictate games of fetch with their owners and most cats who play fetch learned to do so without explicit training, according to a survey of 924 cat owners published in Scientific Reports.

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Researchers surveyed hundreds of people who have cats that play fetch. Though the game is typically associated with dogs, some cats enjoy it, too. They seem to like to play with toys, crumpled balls, ...

Cats and robots are a winning combination, as evidenced by all those videos of kitties riding on Roombas. And now we have Cat Royale, a “multispecies” live installation in which three cats regularly ...

Scientists in California are hoping to learn more about cat playtime and are asking for cat parents to help them. On August 17, 2024, Gizmodo shared the study details from researchers at UC Davis.

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