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About Indoor Cat Notes
Indoor Cat Notes is an educational site from the PawLine team about indoor-cat enrichment. These guides describe practical options from the cited cat-welfare sources. They are general information, not a history of the team's own pets or a substitute for veterinary advice.
How these guides are written
Each guide starts from primary guidance by cat-welfare organizations and peer-reviewed veterinary literature. We verify the source is live before we cite it, we quote positions rather than vibes, and where sources differ we say so. These pages are general information, not veterinary advice - your vet knows your cat, its history and its exam results, and none of that is on this page.
Sources
- International Cat Care - Making your home cat friendly: icatcare.org/articles/making-your-home-cat-friendly
- International Cat Care - Playing with your cat: icatcare.org/articles/playing-with-your-cat
- International Cat Care - Puzzle feeders for your cat: icatcare.org/articles/puzzle-feeders-for-your-cat
- Cat Protection Society of NSW - Harness and lead training: catprotection.org.au/cat-care-factsheets/factsheet-harness-and-lead-training
The puzzle-feeder science cited in the guide is Dantas LMS, Delgado MM, Johnson I and Buffington CAT, Food puzzles for cats: feeding for physical and emotional wellbeing, Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2016; 18: 723-732. The catnip figures are from Bol S and colleagues, Responsiveness of cats (Felidae) to silver vine, Tatarian honeysuckle, valerian and catnip, BMC Veterinary Research, 2017; 13: 70.
About PawLine
PawLine is our cat-care app: research-based answers about your cat's behavior, health and daily care, tailored to the cat you actually live with. Indoor Cat Notes is one of a family of free guides we publish; the app is where the personal part lives.