CCR Feline Research Center
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This website is for cat lovers, veterinary professionals, and anyone who believes cats deserve better science. You'll find resources for enriching your cat's life, hundreds of photographs of the cats and wildlife at the ranch, and the research we do to help them.
We are scientists who study cats without ever harming them — no animal experiments, no exceptions.
We work hard to make sure that the next time your cat needs care, they receive the best possible treatment. Because they deserve it.
Cats first. Better science follows.
Feline research remains critically underfunded.
Cats are studied far less than humans and dogs, and the studies that do exist are often industry-funded and of questionable quality. This needs to change.
At the CCR Feline Research Center, we refuse donations from commercial companies.
We pay a price for that independence, but it means our science serves cats rather than profit. Your support is what makes that possible.
Cats have waited long enough for science that actually works for them.
Help us change that.
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
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