One day, Roman Stocker, an MIT engineering professor, watched his cat, Cutta Cutta, lap milk from a bowl. That’s when he wondered how milk traveled from the bowl to Cutta Cutta’s mouth. While dogs lap up water by using their tongues like a ladle, cats apply an instinctive understanding of fluid mechanics to take the […]
A study by the journal Pediatrics finds that children who lived with dogs or cats during their first year of life got sick less frequently than kids from pet-free zones. The study suggests that sharing a home with a pet may be an early form of cross-training for the body’s defense systems. Dirt and microbes […]
Flatulence (which is a nicer word to describe an awful smell) occurs when food ferments in the digestive tract, your cat swallows air after eating too fast or too much, or if there’s a disorder of the stomach, small intestine or colon. A little gas is a natural part of the digestive process and usually passes […]
