Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who run the world? Cats! Grace Cary/Moment via Getty Images A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern ...

I know that a lot of us pet owners tend to anthropomorphize our animals and think of them as more "human" than they really are, but sometimes I swear that even our pets think of themselves as human.

This is an excerpt from The Cat: A Natural and Cultural History by Dr. Sarah Brown, a cat behavior expert with 30 years' experience working with cats and their humans, with rescue organizations, and ...

A small team of animal scientists at Azabu University, in Japan, has found via experimentation that common house cats are capable of associating human words with images without prompting or reward. In ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property. They weren’t even invited. Yet today, millions of people feed and care for them ...

Scientists have cracked open the “black box” of feline cancer in a landmark study that genetically analyzed nearly 500 cat ...

Cat owners like to think they’re in charge, but their cats keep proving otherwise. Behavior experts say their tactics work because humans often respond without thinking, and the cat always seems to ...