News flash to cat owners: Your indoor kitty is probably profoundly bored and unchallenged by its bottomless food bowl. But it’s relatively easy to spice up kitty’s life with an engaging food puzzle, a ...

Puzzles benefit domestic cats by bringing out their natural foraging behavior Thirty percent of cat owners surveyed use food puzzles, 52 percent had never tried them Most healthy cats are smart enough ...

Cat food puzzles are exactly what they sound like. The puzzles can be any object that holds food and requires your feline friend to figure out how to get it. The puzzles come in all sorts of shapes ...

When cats were offered the choice of readily available food in a tray or working for it using a simple puzzle, cats most often chose the free food. (Mikel Delgado/UC Davis) When given the choice ...

If you’re a cat owner, you know the sound. Your cat has just finished munching on some food, when out of nowhere they retreat to some corner and start convulsing. No, they’re not having a seizure or ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As part of my series of interviews with ...

Greater understanding of the importance of environmental enrichment in enhancing an animal's physical and social environment is bringing benefits for pet cats -- particularly those that are kept ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Let's ...

Your fuzzy feline friend came from a long lineage of hunters and foragers. Although she may laze around now looking for beams of sunlight to sleep in and begging for treats, her life could become more ...

I recently married into becoming a cat dad and am trying to embrace my new family member. My wife and I work all day, and I was worried about the cat being bored and not getting the proper mental ...

Cat food puzzles are exactly what they sound like. The puzzles can be any object that holds food and requires your feline friend to figure out how to get it. The puzzles come in all sorts of shapes ...