- io9 notes that Taylor Swift is co-writing a song for the new Cats movie.
- Japan Times looks at a newly translated work by Taiyu Matusomoto, Cats of the Louvre.
- CTV News reports that Vancouver cat cafe Catfe offers life drawing classes featuring its cats as models.
- D-Brief shares a list of diseases that cats can pass on to humans, and of prevention measures.
- Global News looks at the feral cats of Little Bay Islands, a Newfoundland outport community about to be abandoned. What will happen to them?
- This letter to the Windsor Star makes the point that city needs to tend to its stray cats. (So do all cities, I bet.)
- A cat café in Winnipeg has reopened. CBC reports.
- Phys.org reports on a paper noting that the scent of male cats is made by microbes inhabiting cat bodies.
- Apparently Instagram accounts of fat cats on diets are a thing. The Guardian reports.
- Why do cats so love cardboard and paper? MNN reports.
- Author Peter Watts bids farewell to his noble companion cat, Minion.
- Narcity notes that Toronto Animal Services is offering cats (and dogs) at a discount.
- An Alberta organization aiming to rehouse cats from older owners has found itself overwhelmed. CBC reports.
- A parasite spread by housecats, Smithsonian reports, is responsible for mass deaths in sea lion colonies in California.
- The suffering of the stray cats of Marrakech, Morocco, prone to all sorts of illness and cruelty, sounds terrible. Morocco World News has it.
- I have no idea how accurate this r/mapporn map charting the changing ratio of cats to dogs across the United States is, but I love it anyway.
- This Wired obituary for Grumpy Cat, tracing in that feline's death not only the death of a cute cat but the death of hope for the Internet as a source of fun, rings true to me.
- Atlas Obscura notes how Bangladesh has successfully reduced the poaching of tigers.
- Atlas Obscura takes a look at the many cat ladders of the Swiss city of Bern.
- David Grimm at Science Magazine reports on an innovative research project that attached video cameras to cats to see what they actually did.