Sometimes, a scratch is just a scratch. That’s the balm of fresh news coming out of a wave of new studies reversing ...

These escapes could help your cat calm down, and reduce its desire to scratch. Demirbas said the research team saw a decrease in scratching when her team "designed an environment for our cats ...

First, the bad news: You’re not going to stop your cat from scratching altogether. It’s a natural behavior for felines, and they do it for several reasons.

Though it's rare for the plague to spread from a cat to a human — there are only seven cases of human plague, total, on average in the U.S. — a scratch wouldn't necessarily have to be involved.