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.

Our cat Caliban, for instance, loves to scratch a particular spot on the living room sofa. We placed a scratching post in front of it and now he scratches that—an effective redirection of his ...

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.

Cat scratch disease actually comes from fleas, and rarely sickens cats. Cat scratch disease is caused by a type of bacteria called Bartonella henselae, which may be spread to cats via flea bite.