CCR Feline Research Center
CCR Feline Research Center
Welcome to our website and thank you for visiting. We love cats, just like you do.
If you were wondering how you can make your cat happy, you have come to the right place!
We built this website to offer resources for cat lovers and veterinary professionals.
There are also hundreds of beautiful photographs of cats and the flora & fauna at the ranch.
We are scientists. We do science to help cats. What's unique is that we don't do animal experiments!
We work hard to make sure that next time your cat needs it, they will receive the best possible treatment, because they deserve it!
Please donate to support our work to help cats.
Your kind financial support allows us to do the unique, animal-friendly research we do that results in healthier and happier cats and restore and conserve the habitat of our local wild cat population.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization helping cats.
Your donation is tax-deductible.
Read all about the cats living at their forever home, Cowboy Cat Ranch. Lots of wonderful cat photographs!
Here you can read about the ethical scientific research we do to help cats. Photograph copyright Andrew Marttila, used with kind permission.
Have a look at hundreds of amazing photographs of all the wild animals that live on the land of Cowboy Cat Ranch. We work on restoring and conserving their habitat and educating the local community.
Learn about enriching your home (your cat's world) to make your cat as happy as possible. You can find information about growing cat grass, food puzzles, cat trees, catios, and more.
We protect the habitat of our local wild cats
Did you know we have bobcats and mountain lions at Cowboy Cat Ranch?
Not living inside with our domestic cats, but they are part of our beautiful wildlife in Texas.
The ongoing expansion of the human population is not a good thing for wild animals and their habitats.
Click here to read more about what we do to help our bobcats and mountain lions.
Many cats enjoy the smell of Tatarian honeysuckle wood
On this video you can see one of the cats at Cowboy Cat Ranch, Vlinder, love her piece of Tatarian honeysuckle wood.
Most of us are familiar with catnip and how cats like this plant.
Did you know there are more plants that cats love? Silver vine and Tatarian honeysuckle for example.
Cats who do not enjoy catnip may like these other plants.
We've been studying the response of cats to these plants for many years. Read all about it here, here and here.
We love art and have worked with several fantastic artists
This is a painting of Cowboy made by Dora Hathazi Mendes. Cowboy art is for sale here (all money is for the artist).
We've commissioned art for our scientific publications as well. Vicky Earl made botanical illustrations of cat-attracting plants for our article in BMC Biology. Lili Chin made drawings of cats enjoying the smell of cat-attracting plants for our work in Frontiers for Young Minds.
Click below to see more!
Contact us
meow@cowboycatranch.org