Cat Talk Radio

When cats have mis-matched play styles, it often leads to fighting. Once fighting starts, it can become challenging to stop. This episode talks about what mis-matched play styles look like, how it happens, and what you can do to prevent and manage it in your home.

Bringing a cat into your home with a dog (or vice versa) should not be a daunting task. And it can result in a lifelong friendship between them...IF you do the introduction correctly. Listener, LeAnna, sends in a story about her dog and kitten she adopted that inspired this episode. If you're thinking about adopting a cat into your dog home, tune in!

Dr. Hurley is the National Medical Director for AmeriVet Veterinary Partners. He will be a guest on Cat Talk Radio monthly to answer your medical questions about cats! We're very excited to welcome him to the show and look forward to many engaging episodes as he shares his knowledge.

If you love cats, love to cook and love fun, you'll enjoy this podcast with Sheri Lynch, author of Cooking With Cats - favorite recipes of crazy cat people and the felines we feast with. It's a cookbook with delicious recipes from Sheri Lynch, an acknowledged crazy cat lady and some great crazy cat people who love to cook. Molly and Sheri talk about secret Italian family recipes, cooking with cats...

In this episode Molly answers listener questions about kittens, litter box issues, suckling and more!

Molly and Jackson cat chat!

Molly is joined by Christi Metropole, the founder and CEO of Stray Cat Alliance. Do you know how your shelter is handling stray cats that come in? Do you know what you should do if you have stray cats outside your home? Join Molly and Christi as they answer these questions and much more!

Emily Stolz from Prairie Creek Cats, and Molly DeVoss talk NAKED!! No, the gals aren't naked but they talked all about the hairless cats, called Sphynx - who are also affectionately called the nakeds. Learn about this fascinating breed; their purrsonalities and care. And see NAKED KITTENS!! This show is also on YouTube - so you can see the NAKED KITTENS!! https://youtu.be/gVZuysOPC_8

This is not the episode that will give you specific bonding tips - Molly does that weekly; this is more about the psychological strategies you use when you want more cat love.

Ever wonder how intelligent your cat is? Are dogs smarter? How does cat intelligence compare to our own? How do their brains function? How are whiskers and intelligence linked? Do cats have procedural memory? Can cats get Alzheimer's? Answers to these questions and more in this episode of Cat Talk Radio!

A listener asks, I would love any tips you have on how I may be able to keep my little one's teeth cleaned - or if it is something that naturally takes care of itself?

Is your cat secretly in pain? There's an app for that! Seriously. Tably app from Sylvester.ai has created an artificial intelligence app for your iPhone that predicts your cats pain level with over 90% accuracy. Molly talks with Dr. Liz Bales, Chief Medical Officer and primary Veterinarian consultant for Tably, about how this app really works. We all know that pain can lead to various behavior iss...

Ever wondered what it would be like to use your cat as a therapy animal? Pet Partners works to improve human health and wellness through animal assisted therapy. There are thousands of registered teams, making more than 3 million visits annually. The pets visit patients in recovery, people with intellectual disabilities, seniors living with Alzheimer's, veterans with PTSD, people approaching end o...

Does your cat have dandruff? What is worse, dander or dandruff? What causes it and how can you help your cat to have a healthy, dandruff-free coat?

Listeners often send in interesting questions, framed around their own cats' behavior. I find these fascinating and entertaining and thought it would be fun to share them with you. This episode is sort of a compilation of short stories. We read you their situation and talk about solutions and the interesting behaviors of our feline companions, including: The Wild Child, Steve, Organic cat food & T...

Stacy LaBaron, host of the Community Cats Podcast and I did a thing...we did a mutual podcast that will air on both channels. In it we talk about what each of us are doing in the cat world, colony cats, cats living outside and how it effects your indoor cats, how to constructively interact with outdoor cats, and much, much more.

Join me as I chat with Bob Eckstein, internationally-known cat cartoonist and author of the recently published book, The Complete Book of Cat Names (Your Cat Won't Answer To, Anyway). Bob shares with us his motivation behind drawing cat cartoons and how he started on his career path. I think you'll find this interview fascinating, funny at times, and all over the place!

It's that time again.....Molly answers questions you've sent in. Tune in, yours might be one of them! This is a good hodge-podge of of useful information.

Ever thought about volunteering at your local shelter? Molly got her start working with cats in the shelter and has a lot to share about the gratification and challenges surrounding this way of giving back. Your local shelter is struggling with capacity issues right now and volunteering is a great way to help them out and give back to your community.

When you want to bond with a cat, it's vital you have a knock-their-socks-off treat. Molly uses the Vitakraft Lick n' Lap to train cats and in shelters with highly stressed cats. She says, 98% of cats go bonkers over this treat; it's the secret ingredient to socializing even the most distressed cat. In this episode, Molly talks with Vitakraft US CMO, Miguel Gonzalez about what makes the treats so...

We're pretty sure there are a lot more than six reasons to adopt a shelter cat! When you get a new cat or kitten, you have a lot of choices where to get them from. Molly and Dewey talk about some of the reasons to consider the shelter as the place to go.

Ever thought about what it would be like to adopt a cat who came from a hoarding situation? Molly and Dewey talk about how hoarding cats differ and what you can expect when you bring one into your home.

Why is it that a cat will get along with a particular cat just fine but not another one? What causes that and what can you do to help assure cats will get along?

Seems obvious, right? But many people inadvertently treat their cats like dogs. Learn the things that you might be doing that are dog-mom-like, and how to correct them so your cat can better express its natural feline behaviors. When they do so, they are much less likely to develop bad behaviors.

Today's guest is Angela Ardolino from CBD Cat Health. If you've ever wondered if holistic products work as well as prescription drugs, this is your podcast. Angela explains how full spectrum hemp products as well as medicinal mushrooms can not only heal your cat, but prevent disease from happening. Holistic healing doesn't stop at disease; it's also great for hyperesthesia, over-stimulation, aggre...