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Cats in a Cat Café: Individual Cat Behavior and Interactions with Humans

  • Elin N. Hirsch,
  • Belén Navarro Rivero and
  • Maria Andersson

7 November 2025

Cat cafés are gaining popularity worldwide, yet little is known about their impact on feline welfare. This study examined a Swedish cat café from an animal perspective by assessing space use, cat–cat interactions, and cat–hu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,143 Views
14 Pages

Comparative Analyses of the Gut Microbiota in Growing Ragdoll Cats and Felinae Cats

  • Zongjie Li,
  • Di Di,
  • Qing Sun,
  • Xiaohui Yao,
  • Jianchao Wei,
  • Beibei Li,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Donghua Shao,
  • Yafeng Qiu and
  • Zhiyong Ma
  • + 2 authors

18 September 2022

Today, domestic cats are important human companion animals for their appearance and favorable personalities. During the history of their domestication, the morphological and genetic portraits of domestic cats changed significantly from their wild anc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,594 Views
10 Pages

Bartonella Infections in Cats and Cat Fleas in Lithuania

  • Miglė Razgūnaitė,
  • Indrė Lipatova,
  • Algimantas Paulauskas,
  • Birutė Karvelienė,
  • Vita Riškevičienė and
  • Jana Radzijevskaja

17 September 2021

Bartonella are vector-borne parasitic bacteria that cause zoonotic infections in humans. One of the most common infections is cat-scratch disease caused by Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae. Cats are the major reservoir for these two sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,779 Views
23 Pages

Situational Analysis of Cat Ownership and Cat Caring Behaviors in a Community with High Shelter Admissions of Cats

  • Jacquie Rand,
  • Rebekah Scotney,
  • Ann Enright,
  • Andrea Hayward,
  • Pauleen Bennett and
  • John Morton

3 October 2024

Managing stray cats in urban areas is an ongoing challenge, and in Australia, many are euthanized. Most stray cats are from disadvantaged areas and are under 1 year of age. The Australian Pet Welfare Foundation intended to assess the impact of a free...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,018 Views
21 Pages

Reliability and Validity of a Survey of Cat Caregivers on Their Cats’ Socialization Level in the Cat’s Normal Environment

  • Margaret Slater,
  • Laurie Garrison,
  • Katherine Miller,
  • Emily Weiss,
  • Kathleen Makolinski and
  • Natasha Drain

18 December 2013

Stray cats routinely enter animal welfare organizations each year and shelters are challenged with determining the level of human socialization these cats may possess as quickly as possible. However, there is currently no standard process to guide t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,996 Views
12 Pages

10 March 2020

The community cats program (CCP), which includes trap–neuter–return activities, has been promoted in Japan to reduce the population of free-roaming cats without harmful effects on their welfare. To ascertain the effects of the CCP, a two-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
42,748 Views
20 Pages

Search Methods Used to Locate Missing Cats and Locations Where Missing Cats Are Found

  • Liyan Huang,
  • Marcia Coradini,
  • Jacquie Rand,
  • John Morton,
  • Kat Albrecht,
  • Brigid Wasson and
  • Danielle Robertson

2 January 2018

Missing pet cats are often not found by their owners, with many being euthanized at shelters. This study aimed to describe times that lost cats were missing for, search methods associated with their recovery, locations where found and distances trave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,535 Views
39 Pages

Determinants of Cat Choice and Outcomes for Adult Cats and Kittens Adopted from an Australian Animal Shelter

  • Sarah Zito,
  • Mandy Paterson,
  • Dianne Vankan,
  • John Morton,
  • Pauleen Bennett and
  • Clive Phillips

29 April 2015

The percentage of adult cats euthanized in animal shelters is greater than that of kittens because adult cats are less likely to be adopted. This study aimed to provide evidence to inform the design of strategies to encourage adult cat adoptions. One...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
51,913 Views
13 Pages

Emotion Recognition in Cats

  • Angelo Quaranta,
  • Serenella d’Ingeo,
  • Rosaria Amoruso and
  • Marcello Siniscalchi

28 June 2020

Recent studies demonstrated that cats form social bonds with both conspecifics and humans. One of the key factors regulating social interactions is the transfer of emotions between the individuals. The present study aimed at investigating cats’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,769 Views
18 Pages

Motivation of Owners to Purchase Pedigree Cats, with Specific Focus on the Acquisition of Brachycephalic Cats

  • Liran Plitman,
  • Petra Černá,
  • Mark J. Farnworth,
  • Rowena M.A. Packer and
  • Danièlle A. Gunn-Moore

27 June 2019

Background: Cats are globally popular pets and pedigree cats are increasingly prevalent, with brachycephalic breeds being the most registered breeds. How owners decide upon and acquire their cats is poorly understood. Moreover, there are growing conc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,605 Views
14 Pages

Behavioural Profile Differences Between Cats in Animal-Assisted Services (AAS) and Non-AAS Cats Using the Fe-BARQ in Flanders

  • Joni Delanoeije,
  • Christel Palmyre Henri Moons,
  • Els Helena Karel Anna Peeters and
  • Patricia Pendry

26 December 2024

The engagement of cats in animal-assisted services (AAS) is increasing. This is surprising given that feline behavioural needs have been perceived as contradictory to conditions associated with AAS engagement, leading to the assumption that cats as a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,654 Views
9 Pages

Study of Macrophage Activity in Cats with FIP and Naturally FCoV-Shedding Healthy Cats

  • Sara Mangiaterra,
  • Alessandra Gavazza,
  • Lucia Biagini and
  • Giacomo Rossi

Coronavirus frequently infects humans and animals, showing the ability to recombine and cross over to different species. Cats can be considered a model for studying coronavirus infection, in which feline coronavirus (FCoV) represents a major enteric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,554 Views
13 Pages

When and Why Cats Are Returned to Shelters

  • Vivian Mundschau and
  • Malini Suchak

9 January 2023

There is considerable research on why cats are initially relinquished to shelters, but much less attention has been given to returns, despite the significant implications for shelter capacity and cat welfare. Furthermore, the structure of many databa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,143 Views
12 Pages

The Pharmacokinetic and Absolute Bioavailability of Cyclosporine (Atopica for Cats®) in Cats

  • Jingyuan Kong,
  • Yuxin Yang,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Yuying Cao,
  • Jicheng Qiu,
  • Pan Sun and
  • Xingyuan Cao

18 June 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the absolute bioavailability of cyclosporine in cats by investigating the pharmacokinetic profile after intravenous and oral administration, respectively. Twenty-four clinically healthy cats were enrolled in this study an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,515 Views
15 Pages

Heads and Tails: An Analysis of Visual Signals in Cats, Felis catus

  • Bertrand L. Deputte,
  • Estelle Jumelet,
  • Caroline Gilbert and
  • Emmanuelle Titeux

21 September 2021

Visual communication involves specific signals. These include the different positions of mobile body elements. We analyzed visual configurations in cats that involve ears and the tail. We aimed at deciphering which features of these configurations we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
13 Pages

Variations in the Gut Microbiota of Stray and Domestic Cats

  • Yanan Wu,
  • Chunliu Zhao,
  • Xiran Guo,
  • Jingzhe Cheng,
  • Yiyu Liang,
  • Xiaorui Tang,
  • Zhenyu Peng,
  • Kang Lü,
  • Jiamu Ding and
  • Xiaojuan Xu

26 February 2026

Urban stray cats are in close contact with humans and are important potential vectors for zoonotic diseases. However, comparative studies in the gut microbiota of cats living in different environments remain limited. Here, we conducted a comparative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,065 Views
20 Pages

Surrenderers’ Relationships with Cats Admitted to Four Australian Animal Shelters

  • Sarah Zito,
  • Mandy Paterson,
  • John Morton,
  • Di Vankan,
  • Pauleen Bennett,
  • Jacquie Rand and
  • Clive J. C. Phillips

7 February 2018

The surrender of cats to animal shelters results in financial, social and moral burdens for the community. Correlations of caretaking and interactions with surrendered cats were calculated, to understand more about humans’ relationships with surrende...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,155 Views
19 Pages

The Implications of Policies on the Welfare of Free-Roaming Cats in New Zealand

  • Christine L. Sumner,
  • Jessica K. Walker and
  • Arnja R. Dale

19 January 2022

A lack of national legislation for cat management in New Zealand poses challenges for ensuring that practices are consistently humane and effective. In this paper, we review the current cat management policies in New Zealand and the implications they...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,557 Views
17 Pages

Density and Home Range of Cats in a Small Inhabited Mediterranean Island

  • Sara Molina-Bernabeu and
  • Germán M. López-Iborra

6 August 2024

There is growing concern about effectively controlling cat populations due to their impact on biodiversity, especially on islands. To plan this management, it is essential to know the cat population size, sterilization rates, and space they use. Smal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,050 Views
9 Pages

Influenza Virus Infections in Cats

  • Tadeusz Frymus,
  • Sándor Belák,
  • Herman Egberink,
  • Regina Hofmann-Lehmann,
  • Fulvio Marsilio,
  • Diane D. Addie,
  • Corine Boucraut-Baralon,
  • Katrin Hartmann,
  • Albert Lloret and
  • Margaret J. Hosie
  • + 6 authors

23 July 2021

In the past, cats were considered resistant to influenza. Today, we know that they are susceptible to some influenza A viruses (IAVs) originating in other species. Usually, the outcome is only subclinical infection or a mild fever. However, outbreaks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,816 Views
10 Pages

Characteristics of Plant Eating in Domestic Cats

  • Benjamin L. Hart,
  • Lynette A. Hart,
  • Abigail P. Thigpen and
  • Neil H. Willits

22 June 2021

Plant eating by domestic cats is of interest to veterinarians and cat owners, especially with the current trend to keep cats totally indoors. Feline grass gardens are commonly provided to such cats as a reflection of cat owners believing in the need...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,972 Views
14 Pages

24 October 2018

Domestic cats (Felis catus) are popular pets worldwide and play an important role in the lives of many of their owners; however, there is growing awareness of the potential negative impacts of cats. Accordingly, there is increasing interest in pet ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,105 Views
33 Pages

Outcomes of a Community Cat Program Based on Sterilization of Owned, Semi-Owned and Unowned Cats in a Small Rural Town

  • Jacquie Rand,
  • Abithaswathi M. Saraswathy,
  • Joy Verrinder and
  • Mandy B. A. Paterson

23 October 2024

Free-roaming cats in urban and peri-urban areas and in rural towns pose significant challenges due to their nuisance behaviors, threats to wildlife, and potential disease transmission. Traditional management methods often involve trapping and euthani...

  • Reply
  • Open Access
546 Views
18 Pages

30 January 2026

For millennia, cats have been valued worldwide as biological agents for rodent control. Our previous qualitative research found that Australian dairy farmers valued cats for rodent management and companionship, while also highlighting welfare and ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,503 Views
19 Pages

Online Relinquishments of Dogs and Cats in Australia

  • Susan J. Hazel,
  • Caitlin J. Jenvey and
  • Jonathan Tuke

7 February 2018

While traditionally people relinquish their pets to an animal shelter or pound, the internet provides a newer method to re-home. We analyzed advertisements (ads) on the largest website in Australia for trading dogs and cats: Gumtree. Data was collect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
20,326 Views
11 Pages

Assessment of Clicker Training for Shelter Cats

  • Lori Kogan,
  • Cheryl Kolus and
  • Regina Schoenfeld-Tacher

22 September 2017

Clicker training has the potential to mitigate stress among shelter cats by providing environmental enrichment and human interaction. This study assessed the ability of cats housed in a shelter-like setting to learn new behaviors via clicker training...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,645 Views
19 Pages

Flat-Faced or Non-Flat-Faced Cats? That Is the Question

  • Greta Veronica Berteselli,
  • Clara Palestrini,
  • Federica Scarpazza,
  • Sara Barbieri,
  • Emanuela Prato-Previde and
  • Simona Cannas

5 January 2023

Persian and exotic shorthair cats are the most-popular brachycephalic breeds worldwide. This study aimed to explore differences in human-cat bonding, behavioural traits, perception of clinical breed-related problems, and the motivation for purchasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
131,834 Views
11 Pages

9 June 2020

The aim of this study was to investigate whether men were considered more attractive when posing for a photo alone or holding a cat. Prior research suggests that women view pet owners as more attractive and dateable than non-pet owners; however, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,081 Views
10 Pages

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Cats from Cyprus

  • Charalampos Attipa,
  • Christos Yiapanis,
  • Séverine Tasker and
  • Anastasia Diakou

Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan protozoon parasite, and the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, one of the most prevalent zoonotic parasitic diseases. Cats, as definitive hosts, spread the parasite via their faeces, but this occurs only for a very...

  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
12 Pages

Prevalence of Otitis Externa in a Population of Owned Cats in Northern Italy

  • Roberta Perego,
  • Eva Spada,
  • Claudia Avizzano,
  • Luciana Baggiani and
  • Daniela Proverbio

24 February 2026

Although increasingly studied feline otitis externa (OE) prevalence is not yet well defined. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of OE in a population of privately owned cats in Northern Italy. Cats were clinically, otoscopically and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,930 Views
7 Pages

Impact of Obesity on Lung Function in Cats with Bronchoconstriction

  • Alicia Caro-Vadillo,
  • J. Alberto Montoya-Alonso and
  • Laín García-Guasch

Obesity is a nutritional disorder commonly diagnosed in adult cats that has been associated with an increased risk of different chronic diseases including respiratory diseases. The main objective of this study is to define if there is a relation betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,949 Views
13 Pages

Two Methods of Monitoring Cats at a Landscape-Scale

  • Cheryl A. Lohr,
  • Kristen Nilsson,
  • Ashleigh Johnson,
  • Neil Hamilton,
  • Mike Onus and
  • Dave Algar

15 December 2021

Feral cats are difficult to manage and harder to monitor. We analysed the cost and the efficacy of monitoring the pre- and post-bait abundance of feral cats via camera-traps or track counts using four years of data from the Matuwa Indigenous Protecte...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
4 Citations
23,249 Views
12 Pages

14 October 2019

Hybrid cats—created by crossing different species within the family Felidae—are popular pets, but they could potentially threaten native species if they escape and establish free-roaming populations. To forestall this possibility, the Aus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,428 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2024

Surprisingly little is known about how the home environment influences the behaviour of pet cats. This study aimed to determine how factors in the home environment (e.g., with or without outdoor access, urban vs. rural, presence of a child) and the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,166 Views
4 Pages

Zoonotic and Other Gastrointestinal Parasites in Cats in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia

  • Izzu Ar-Rifqi Rabbani,
  • Fairuz Jihan Mareta,
  • Kusnoto,
  • Poedji Hastutiek,
  • Nunuk Dyah Retno Lastuti,
  • Mufasirin,
  • Suharsono,
  • I Komang Wiarsa Sardjana,
  • Moh. Sukmanadi and
  • Lucia Tri Suwanti

Relationship between humans and cats has negative impact associates with zoonotic diseases. It is the reason why studies on the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) parasites in cats are important. Some of zoonotic GI parasites in cats are Toxocara sp...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,786 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2021

Urban environments are inhabited by several types of feline populations, which we can differentiate as feral cats, free-roaming pets, and confined pets. Due to a shift in the cultural representation of cats from pest controllers to companion animals,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,057 Views
16 Pages

15 July 2021

Depredation of birds by domestic cats is hypothesized to be one of many significant sources of mortality leading to global bird declines. Direct observations are relatively rarely documented compared with large numbers of birds hypothesized to be kil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,773 Views
24 Pages

Emergency Dyspnea in 258 Cats: Insights from the French RAPID CAT Study

  • Nour Abboud,
  • Jack-Yves Deschamps,
  • Marie Joubert and
  • Françoise A. Roux

3 March 2025

Dyspnea is common in feline emergency medicine. Dyspneic cats are often unable to tolerate additional diagnostic tests upon admission. The aim of this study was to determine the relative frequency of the causes of severe dyspnea in cats and to identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,493 Views
14 Pages

The Use of Refuges by Communally Housed Cats

  • Adriana Sicuto De Oliveira,
  • César Augusto Sangaletti Terçariol and
  • Gelson Genaro

24 April 2015

The increase of domestic animals kept in shelters highlights the need to ensure animal welfare. Environmental enrichment can improve animal welfare in many ways, such as encouraging captive animals to use all the space available to them. The effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
22,300 Views
8 Pages

Pet–Human Relationships: Dogs versus Cats

  • Mónica Teresa González-Ramírez and
  • René Landero-Hernández

20 September 2021

The study of human–animal interactions has increased, focusing on the dog–owner relationship, leaving a lag in research on the cat–owner relationship and practically a total absence of studies that compare the dog–owner relationship with the cat-owne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,736 Views
23 Pages

Public Attitudes towards and Management Strategies for Community Cats in Urban China

  • Xuan Gu,
  • Di Wu,
  • Zilin Zhang,
  • Guo Peng,
  • Anru Ni,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Xiufan Xiong,
  • Yujie Liu and
  • Li Wang

7 August 2024

Managing community cats in urban China is a contentious and emerging issue, with debates centering on the most effective and humane approaches. This study aimed to investigate public attitudes towards community cats and various management strategies....

  • Comment
  • Open Access
1 Citations
723 Views
17 Pages

It’s Premature to Encourage Working Cats for Rodent Control on Australian Dairy Farms

  • Michael C. Calver,
  • Heather M. Crawford,
  • Tim Kurz,
  • Jo Watson and
  • Bruce L. Webber

29 January 2026

Rodents are significant agricultural pests in Australia and internationally. Recent proposals to address the Australian problems by allowing farmers to obtain desexed cats, at tax-deductible cost, to control rodents on their properties are, superfici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
15,989 Views
17 Pages

My Dog Is Not My Cat: Owner Perception of the Personalities of Dogs and Cats Living in the Same Household

  • Laura Menchetti,
  • Silvia Calipari,
  • Gabriella Guelfi,
  • Alice Catanzaro and
  • Silvana Diverio

24 May 2018

This study aims to define the personality traits perceived by the owners of multiple pets and to evaluate how they are modulated by experiential-environmental factors. A questionnaire was administered to 1270 owners of multiple pets (dogs and cats) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
43,371 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2012

A cross-sectional national random digit dial telephone interview was conducted between September and November 2010. There were 1,015 households that had owned a dog or cat within the past five years. Of these 817 households owned dogs and 506 owned c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,714 Views
10 Pages

The aim of this study was to investigate inpatient and staff member attitudes toward and experiences with ward cats, and identify possible mechanisms for how cats affect patient satisfaction in a psychiatric clinic. Thirty-three inpatients diagnosed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,537 Views
18 Pages

Rabies in Cats—An Emerging Public Health Issue

  • Christine Fehlner-Gardiner,
  • Gyanendra Gongal,
  • Tenzin Tenzin,
  • Claude Sabeta,
  • Paola De Benedictis,
  • Silene Manrique Rocha,
  • Alexander Vargas,
  • Natalia Cediel-Becerra,
  • Luis Carlos Gomez and
  • Charles E. Rupprecht
  • + 1 author

19 October 2024

Human rabies cases today are predominantly associated with infection from rabid domestic dogs. Unlike dogs, a common global reservoir species that perpetuates rabies viruses (RABV) within their populations, domestic cats are much less frequently repo...

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