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Moving to new apartment with cat requires more preparation than most owners give it. My cat disappeared under the bathroom vanity for three days after the first time I moved and I spent those days sliding food under the cabinet and talking to a piece of furniture. What I learned from that experience and every … Read more

How to set up cat space in  small apartment is something I figured out slowly and expensively by buying things in the wrong order. I started with a wide three-tier cat tree that ate a third of my living room floor and my cat used one shelf twice before ignoring the whole thing. Then I … Read more

Is it ok to have a cat in a small apartment is the question I asked myself on repeat the first week I moved into a 380-square-foot studio with my two-year-old cat. She spent the first three days sitting on the single windowsill and I spent those three days convinced I had ruined her life. … Read more

The best cat breeds for apartment living are not necessarily the smallest breeds or the quietest breeds but the ones whose temperament genuinely matches the limited-territory, high-routine lifestyle that apartment living produces. I learned this the hard way after adopting a young Bengal mix into a one-bedroom apartment and spending eight months managing destruction before … Read more

How to keep a cat happy in a studio apartment was a question I had no answer to on the day I signed a lease for a four-hundred-square-foot place and brought home a two-year-old tabby the same weekend. The guilt hit immediately. She would spend hours on the narrow windowsill pressing her nose to the … Read more

Do cats watch TV is the question I started asking myself after my cat spent twenty minutes stalking the corner of my television during a nature documentary. She was not lounging near the screen. She was crouched low with her tail sweeping the floor watching a squirrel with the same focused intensity she gives the … Read more

An indoor cat play schedule was the last thing I thought I needed until my cat started waking me up at 4am by sitting on my face. I was playing with her sometimes but without any consistency or timing and she had no way to anticipate when activity was coming or structure her day around … Read more

Does an indoor cat need a companion is the question most owners start asking around month three when the guilt sets in. You leave for work, picture your cat sitting alone in a silent apartment for eight hours and wonder whether you are failing them by not getting a second cat. I felt that guilt … Read more

How to tire out hyper indoor cat is something I searched at 2am on a Tuesday after my cat launched herself off my face, knocked my water glass onto the floor and immediately began sprinting figure eights around the bedroom. She was two years old, perfectly healthy and absolutely feral with unspent energy every single … Read more

A window setup for indoor cat was the last thing on my mind when I adopted my first apartment cat. I put her bed in the corner, filled a basket with toys she ignored and spent six months wondering why she sat on the cold narrow windowsill instead of any of the comfortable surfaces I … Read more