Cats spend as much as 50% of their waking hours licking themselves. But why do cats lick themselves? Licking is instinctual in cats. Cats groom themselves through licking. A mother cat’s first job is ...

If you’ve been eyeing a self-cleaning litter box, you may know some of the popular options can cost a pretty penny — like $699.99 worth of pennies. The Autoscooper 11 averages around $279.99, though ...

If only cats could scoop their own litter. Sadly, that will never be a reality, but there’s another just-as-great solution: self-cleaning litter boxes. I enlisted my three favorite felines to ...

Some animals make that easy by preening, licking, and grooming themselves ... to deliver feline saliva deep into cats' fur, ensuring their coat stays clean and their bodies stay cool.

Learn more My cats hated the first self-cleaning litter box we tried, the WiFi-enabled, slickly designed Litter Robot. They refused to even enter the thing, let alone do their business in it.

Professional groomers use slicker brushes to remove mats from fluffy cats and dogs, so we gave the Safari Self-Cleaning Slicker Brush a go (Safari sent us an editorial review sample to test).