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Cat Chat®

Tracie Hotchner

Welcome to the new CAT CHAT ® brought to you by Dr. Elsey’s, the private company owned by Dr. Elsey, who created the #1 litter in the country to keep cats in their loving homes (helping to avoid Out of Litter Box problems, the #1 reason people abandon their kitties).Tracie wrote THE CAT BIBLE: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know and hosted Cat Chat ® as a live call-in show for nearly 8 years on the Martha Stewart channel of Sirius/XM. Her mission is to entertain, educate and inspire cat lovers

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21:41

Cat Sushi — Pure Yumminess!

Cat Chat® ·

2025/05/05

#249: Spyq Sklar, a co-founder of Earthly, describes how Cat Sushi came to be — from his visits to tuna processors in Japan and securing bonito flakes as cat treats.

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17:55

Choose a Friendly Father to Get a Friendly Kitten

Cat Chat® ·

2025/04/29

#250: Mikel Maria Delgado talks about purebred cats and how limiting the gene pool for physical characteristics can lead to inborn physical problems. Selecting for appearance not for temperament can backfire.

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18:50

Would You Re-Design Your House for Your Cat?

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2025/04/21

#247: Meet Yosh, who traveled the world with his Bombay cat Simon, then decided to build his house for Simon’s pleasure.

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23:01

Rachel the Cat Savior

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2025/04/14

#246: Cat behaviorist Rachel Geller, with her own nonprofit All Cats All the Time, has helped more than 1.000 cats and their people to have a better relationship and stay together — and she’s done it without changing her own style of patient insight and support.

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14:58

Living Well With Your Blind Pussycat

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2025/04/07

#245: Behavior tips from cat behaviorist Stephen Quandt about living with a blind cat, whether blind from birth or she becomes so later. He recommends starting with a compressed space, giving them a chance to explore their litter box, food and “cat cave” safe space before you slowly expand their physical world.

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16:34

Your Cat Doesn’t Play? That’s on YOU!

Cat Chat® ·

2025/03/31

#244: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado published a research project with other feline experts in England to ascertain what keeps people from playing with their cats? Turns out, changing human behavior is harder than changing that of kitty cats!

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13:58

Jenny the Brilliant Blind Kitten

Cat Chat® ·

2025/03/24

#243: Cat behaviorist Stephen Quandt [CatBehaviorHelp.com] describes how he adopted blind Jenny as a kitten and realized she had “sight without vision” — she spent 8 hours nonstop roaming his entire apartment when he first brought her home, only resting once she had made a mental map of new territory.

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15:33

What Every Whisker Twitch Can Tell You

Cat Chat® ·

2025/03/17

#235: Understand how a cat’s whiskers function, then Mikel Delgado tells you how to watch them to discover your cat’s feelings.

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28:23

The Cat Psychiatrist Will See You Now

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2025/03/10

#228: Veterinary behaviorists are called "psychiatrists" in France, where Dr Claude Beata is one of a very small number of these doctors who are helping treat emotional issues in pets, including the use of psycho-pharmaceuticals.

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28:11

Is Your Kitty a Retriever?

Cat Chat® ·

2025/03/03

#229: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado discusses her scientific paper on whether cats play fetch.

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19:03

Nothing Crazy About the 2 Crazy Cat Ladies

Cat Chat® ·

2025/02/24

#240: These two cat lovers have a loving following for a reason!

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21:45

How to Rate a Cat

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2025/02/17

#242: Matt McGlasson's delightful book "How to Rate a Cat: Rate Any Feline Friend From Their Boopable Nose to Their Sweet Toe Beans" features his hilarious Cat Rating System (CRS) that rates all aspects of cats. He has three special needs cats himself and says anybody who can should get one because they give us a great perspective on life: they never feel sorry for themselves and just get on with it, enjoying their lives.

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15:48

How To Give a New Home to Old Cats Set in Their Ways

Cat Chat® ·

2025/02/10

#239: It takes patience and time, but novelist Brian Porter explains how he made it work when he inherited a pair of cats after his mother passed away.

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16:21

Teaching Your Cat to Love Her Carrier

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2025/02/03

#227: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado recommends a carrier the cat can enjoy as a resting place and bed that you keep out all the time in your home — not a soft-sided carrier but a hard-sided one (Sleepypod is her favorite — if you can afford one or put it on your wish list for Santa Claus!)

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16:44

Translating What Your Cat is Telling You

Cat Chat® ·

2025/01/27

#237: Wonder what your cat is thinking and feeling? The answers are in Lili Chin’s book “Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat.”

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14:07

Does Your Kitty have Her “Go Bag” Ready?

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2025/01/20

#226: Zazie Todd’s book “PURR: the Science of Making Your Cat Happy," has a nice checklist of what you should set aside in a bag for emergency preparedness if you have to leave in a hurry.

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9:46

Hay is for Horses, Straw is for Strays

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2025/01/13

#241: Dr. Maria Mikel Delgado discusses how to care for outdoor cats in the winter by providing a warm and dry shelter and food (using the insulation of straw) — while also making the indoors more fun for your house cat, offering a heated bed inside and using tips from her book PLAY WITH YOUR CAT!

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19:34

Can You Manage Feline Leukemia in a Kitten?

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2025/01/06

#234: Dr Hodgkins recommends finding a feline-specialist veterinarian who will know how to use broad spectrum antibiotics to deal with the kitten’s upper respiratory symptoms.

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22:13

Danger! Your Fat Cat Must Lose Weight Very Slowly

Cat Chat® ·

2024/12/30

#233: An overweight cat should not lose more than ¼ lb a week or risk life-threatening Fatty Liver Disease — which Dr Elizabeth Hodgkins says you can avoid by removing dry food from their diet and feeding quality high protein wet food to help safely and naturally remove fat packed around their liver.

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18:22

“The Cat’s Meow” - Its Many Meanings

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2024/12/23

#232: Each cat has many ways of saying “Meow,” as Jonathan Losos explains in his book “The Cat’s Meow.”

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