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Is Your Cat Ruining Your Sex Life?

#328: Cat behaviorist Stephen Quandt of https://catbehaviorhelp.com/ has some practical advice for cat owners whose kitties won't give them a little privacy in the b

Cat Bites Can Be Dangerous — But They're Doing Something Normal

 #327: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds consulting explains that biting is a normal feline behavior. It's up to people to know their own cat and to read cat bo

Does Your Cat have Hidden Heart Disease?

#326: Dr. Ashlie Saffire (DABVP) is a feline specialist in Dublin, Ohio, whose clients come from as far as California for routine care. She is particularly focused on car

Your Kitty Will Always Be With You

#325: Cathryn Michon's newest book - "i'm still here - a cat's purpose forever," is a prose poem surrounded by enchanting watercolors — reminding us that o

Cats Should Eat Like the Carnivores They Are

#324: Cats are obligate carnivores — so why are so many of them eating like they aren’t? Tracie talks with feline nutrition expert Dr. Deb Zoran of Texas A&M University,

Cat Rescue in Seoul — “the Impossible Possible”

#323: Tracie talks with Julie Choi, founder of Yongsan Cats in Seoul, South Korea, where the city’s frequent redevelopment projects put thousands of community cats at ris

NYC Cats After 9-11

#322: Tracie talks with filmmaker Cathe Neukum about Feral, her deeply moving documentary chronicling the rescue of cats left trapped and abandoned in lower Manhattan aft

The 30-Year Devotion of the Cat Lady

#321: Filmmaker Megan Liz Smith joins Tracie to talk about her moving short documentary Cat Lady, featured in the 9th Annual New York Cat Film Festival, premiering Septem

The Bridge Between Wild & Domestic

#320: Filmmaker Asako Ushio joins Tracie to talk about her extraordinary documentary set on Japan’s remote Tashiro Island, where cats live in a fascinating space somewher

Cat Saviors in Greece

#319: Documentary filmmaker Molly Dennis joins Tracie to talk about her film Cat People, which will be featured in the 9th Annual New York Cat Film Festival, premiering S

Cats & Kids

#318: Stephen Quandt of https://catbehaviorhelp.com/ talks about the various ways that children can be involved in choosing a cat from a shelter and then enhancing the bo

Midnight Feline Frolics

#317: Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds consulting talks about all the ways that cats can find to wake you up in the middle of the night — and how to manage nocturnal ca

Protecting NYC's Un-Owned Cats Since 9-11

#316: Mike Phillips tells the history of the Urban Cat League — rescuing cats after the World Trade Center bombing, making a refuge for them — and continuing to improve t

A Cat Who Wants to take Showers With You?

#315: A listener wrote Tracie to ask how it was possible that two different cats she's had want to get in the shower with her!  Resident cat expert Dr. Mikel Maria D

What to Know About Cats and Mammary (Breast) Cancer

#314: The nonprofit EveryCat Health Foundation financed a study across 5 countries of mammary tumors in cats, with surprising results explained by Dr. Maggie Placer, the

Legalizing the Thousands of NYC Bodega Cats

#313: Dan Rimada is leading the push to legalize and protect bodega cats by creating a citywide archive of cats in NYC bodegas (estimates are 5,500 of them) which he and

Vincent Gets Off Kitty Crack with CleanProtein

#312: Andrey (who created Brook Fountain) reports that his adopted cat, Vincent, who was completely hooked on kitty krack, transitioned off unhealthy kibble by starting w

HARD HAT CATS NYC: Hard at Work Keeping Rats at Bay

#311: Sheila Massey talks about her Hard Hat Cats NYC, which puts unadoptable cats from the NYC shelter into breweries, restaurants and retail stores where they provide n

Turn Your Sofa Into a Scratching Outpost

#310: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds cat behavior consulting, explains that you cannot — nor should you — try to stop a cat from scratching, which is a natural an

Premium Cat Food at Supermarket Prices

#309: Allison Ward, the founder of Salty Cat, launched her company with the intention of creating a lower-priced cat food with premium ingredients. How did she do it? Sim