About Cat Cafe Central
An independent educational blog for calm, practical cat care.
What this site is
Cat Cafe Central is a reader-first cat-care blog. It exists to make everyday cat questions easier to understand: feeding, litter setup, enrichment, grooming, new-cat settling, multi-cat routines, and safety signals.
We are not a veterinary clinic, rescue, brand, shop, or service provider. The site is built as an educational resource and does not sell products or collect leads.
Editorial values
- Clarity before cleverness.
- Practical steps readers can use at home.
- Cautious health language and clear veterinary boundaries.
- Regular updates when guidance changes or pages need improvement.
How pages here are researched
Guidance on this site starts from the official cat-welfare and veterinary sources rather than from other blogs. The four reference sets we use most are International Cat Care, the Cornell Feline Health Center health library, the OSU Indoor Pet Initiative and the ASPCA cat-care guidance. All four publish the underlying advice they describe, so anything you read here can be checked at the source.
When a draft is finished we re-open each source and confirm the specific number or statement it supports, then link it in the body of the page rather than in a reference dump at the bottom. Where the sources disagree, or where the evidence is thin, we say so instead of picking the more dramatic version. Health pages carry a fixed boundary: they explain what to look for and when to contact a veterinary practice, and they never try to diagnose your cat.
| Page type | What it is | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Guides and how-tos | Step-by-step help for one job, such as litter box setup or home-proofing | Work through it in order; each one links to the pages and tools it depends on |
| Explainers | Why a cat does something — staring, kneading, slow blinking | Read for interpretation, then watch your own cat over a few days |
| Tools and calculators | Small utilities that do arithmetic on numbers you type in | Treat the result as a starting point for observation, not an instruction |
| Quizzes and puzzles | Short scenarios that surface a habit or a gap in the setup | Run one a week and act on the single thing it flags |
| Reference pages | The glossary and the resource shelf | Look up a term, or jump straight to the official source behind it |
What this site does not do
- No veterinary diagnosis, dosing advice or substitute for an examination.
- No sponsored rankings, no affiliate-driven “best of” pages, and no products sold here.
- No AI-generated photographs of cats. Pictures of living animals are real, licensed photographs with visible credit lines, as set out in the editorial policy.
If you are new to cats, the seven-day start path gives the essentials in the order they matter. If you would rather browse, the article index, the tools and the resource shelf group the same material by intent rather than by date.
Sources: International Cat Care, the Cornell Feline Health Center health-information library, the OSU Indoor Pet Initiative resource checklist and ASPCA cat-care guidance — the four reference sets behind every guidance page on this site.