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Jan 2019
1h 24m

Felinology (CATS) with Mikel Delgado

ALIE WARD
About this episode

We love them. We live with them. We are mystified by them. Alie hunted down professional cat behavior expert Dr. Mikel Delgado who dishes on everything from toilet training to feral taming to neonatal kittens to cats eating our dead bodies to domestication, toxoplasmosis, litter box strategies, cats on leashes, why they want to sit on your laptop, how to play with cat toys the right way, why cats drool, if tigers make biscuits, catnip stupors and so much more. Get inside the head of your favorite, furry enigmas and you'll love them even more. Also: scoop that box.

Dr. Mikel Delgado's Twitter, website, and business FelineMinds.com

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Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris

Theme song by Nick Thorburn


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