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Journal

The Journal

Each article follows one finding from the research all the way home, into the life you share with your cat. Four or five minutes of reading that lingers long afterwards, with its sources beside it and an invitation to deepen the bond.

Psychology, attachment, body language

Mind & Bond

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Mind & Bond · 5 min

Why cats purr

It is one of the most familiar sounds in any home with a cat, and one of the least understood. Science has measured it, recorded it, even coaxed it from a larynx in the laboratory — and the purr has kept its secret.

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Mind & Bond · 4 min

Why cats knead

The slow press of her paws, left and right, the claws opening and closing like a flower: she learned it in the first days of her life. That she still offers it to you, years later, tells a quiet and lovely story.

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Gentle, clear, vet-friendly

Health & Care

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Health & Care · 5 min

How much should a cat drink?

Her ancestors hunted in dry country and drew most of their water from their prey. That old story still moves in her today — in where she chooses to drink, and in the bowls she passes by with such elegant indifference.

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Health & Care · 5 min

What whiskers know

Those long, pale hairs on either side of her face are not decoration. Each one is rooted in a nest of nerves, and together they read the world in a language of touch we can barely imagine.

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Every chapter of a cat's life

Kitten to Senior

Where a cat's body comes from

Breeds & Beauty

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Breeds & Beauty · 6 min

The Maine Coon: a cat built by winter

Snowshoes between her toes, a scarf of fur at her throat, a tail long enough to sleep inside: the Maine Coon was shaped by the long winters of New England. A portrait of a gentle giant who greets you with a chirp, and of the legends that have followed her ever since.

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Stories told of them for centuries

Myth & Mystery

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Myth & Mystery · 4 min

Freyja's cats · Scandinavia

When the goddess Freyja travels, so an old Icelandic book tells us, she sits in a chariot drawn by two cats. A single sentence, eight hundred years old — and the image has never quite let us go.

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Myth & Mystery · 5 min

The beckoning cat · Japan

A lord on his way home, a white cat at a temple gate, one raised paw — and then the rain. How a small gesture in old Edo became one of the best-loved figures in the world.

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