As wildfire season approaches, the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is ensuring pets are as prepared as everyone else in case of an emergency.

Thanks to a grant from the Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation, the HSTT will be handing out several hundred pet “go bags” for emergency pur

When a tiny kitten shows up on your doorstep, your instinct may be to scoop up the tiny critter and help it. But how can you tell if your new kitten was taken away from its mother too soon?

Holistic veterinarian Dr. Judy Morgan recommends that newborn kittens stay with their moms unti

Selecting what cat litter to buy used to be a fairly simple affair. A consumer would go to the store, find the brown bag stamped "Kitty Litter," purchase it, and then go home.

This bag of "Kitty Litter" was actually the first of its kind, invented by Edward Lowe more than 70 years ago. A

Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember visited Prof. Desiree Plata’s lab to learn more about her group’s work developing a new tool to help address climate change. Plata and her colleagues “soaked an odor-eating clay used in cat boxes in a copper solution to create a compound that th

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Sun and clouds mixed. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 88F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph..

Some clouds. Low 68F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Summer is getting closer. We are getting more long warm days. I let my woodstove go out, which is

MIT researchers have found that the clay that soaks up odors in kitty litter could be used to grab methane out of the air. The scientists put the zeolite clay in a copper solution to create a compound that absorbed methane and released it as carbon dioxide, a less potent greenhouse gas.

Right up front I’ll let the reader know this is a plea for help. Sammie’s Friends needs foster parents to get through the kitten season.

You’re probably saying, “I didn’t even know there was a kitten season. Do they grow like plants in the spring?”