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I learned how to set up cat space in a small apartment slowly and expensively, by buying things in the wrong order. First purchase: a wide three-tier cat tree that ate a third of my living room floor. My cat used one shelf on it twice, then ignored the whole thing for good. What 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 fast. She spent hours on the narrow windowsill pressing her nose to the glass, … Read more

My cat spent twenty minutes stalking the corner of my TV during a nature documentary. She wasn’t lounging near the screen. She was crouched low, tail sweeping the floor, watching a squirrel with the same focused intensity she gives the bird feeder outside the window. That’s what got me asking do cats watch TV in … 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

Window setup for indoor cat living 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

Free cat enrichment ideas at home were the last thing I thought I needed until my cat destroyed a houseplant, shredded a corner of the couch and woke me up three nights in a row inside the same week. I had a decent cat tree and a basket of toys she ignored completely. The solution … Read more