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Cat sitters can be a great addition to your contact list when booking holidays or short trips away. If, like many cat owners, you’ve decided that your precious moggy would prefer a kind and caring alternative to catteries, then cat sitting might be the answer you’ve been looking for

Lots of our cats live indoors for many different reasons. Maybe they live in a big city, maybe they're into being cosy at all times, or maybe they just hate the sound of birds

The question of whether to allow your cat outdoors is a personal decision for every cat parent and depends on factors such as your location, proximity to busy roads, and lifestyle. Indoor cats live on average significantly longer than cats that are free to roam

Every year, every hardcore cat parent asks the same question: how do you make your Christmas tree cat-safe? Let’s get a jingle on and find out:

World Mental Health Day falls annually on October 10th. It was started in 1992 with the aim of raising awareness and sensitivity towards mental health around the world

Learning how to travel with your cat can expand your horizons to new cities and even countries. Our ultimate guide can help prepare you for any destination, by ensuring you have the correct documents for your feline friend when travelling from the United Kingdom

From Bonfire Night to Diwali; New Year's Eve to Chinese New Year, there are plenty of fireworks throughout Autumn and Winter – and that can mean a stressful time for your cat. As a hardcore cat parent, you want to do all you can to prep in advance

Ghouls, vampires, skeletons: take a seat. Any hardcore cat parent knows that the best thing to carve on a pumpkin is a picture of your cat

How cats get their moisture can often be a mystery for cat parents. Questions like how much water do cats need and whether they are getting enough might leave you perplexed

As humans evolved so did our reliance on communication through spoken and then written word; with the use of gestures remaining more significant in certain cultures, and body language becoming gradually more subtle and more commonly overlooked. In contrast, vocalisation in cats is just one part of their system of communication

The 21st August 2021 is International Homeless Animals Day, which was introduced by The International Society for Animal Rights in 1992 (2). It is a day dedicated to raising awareness and improving conditions for homeless animals, so we thought it a great opportunity to shed some light on the homeless cat problem in the UK; and also to introduce the three rescues we have within the KatKin family

Dental disease is a very common problem in cats, and becomes more common as they get older. It's thought that around 70-80% of cats over the age of three years old have some form of dental disease