Cats

Mister Sleeves and Eighty-Eight are elusive creatures — and candidates. Their owners have been placing yard signs across town to promote the "Purr Party" campaign. "You've tried humans," the signs ask. "How'd that work out?"

Two Kansas City-area animal shelters say their kennels are full, and in one shelter, animals are living in offices and training rooms.

Dogs and cats can't cool themselves as efficiently as people, making them more susceptible to heatstroke.

Until she died this past July, Krazy was a full-time resident at the Kauffman Memorial Garden — protecting beautiful blooms from Brush Creek vermin by night, befriending visitors by day. But the gardener who tamed her remembers that, when Krazy arrived almost 18 years ago, "she was just mean."

Eight years ago, 70% of the animals that came into Kansas City, Missouri’s animal shelter were euthanized. “It was dreadful,” Kansas City Councilwoman…

Cities in Kansas have been adopting a new approach for dealing with feral cats: neutering and vaccinating them, and then allowing the felines to roam...

Falling through the cracksAt best, from 2016 to 2017, states kept the number of children without insurance stable.Most did worse than that.Kansas saw…

Boondocks broadbandHow you gonna keep ’em down on the farm if they can’t stream Netflix?The Federal Communications Commission sent seven grants to Kansas…

Segment 1: To school or unschool, that is the question.Unschooling combines the ideals of Montessori schools with homeschooling; letting kids dictate…

When Ken Sissom became the mayor of Merriam, Kansas, in 2008, he knew exactly what he was getting into.He was on the police department in Merriam for 26…

Throughout the 20th Century our perception and treatment of cats and dogs changed from that of working animal to treasured companion. We brought them…

Let the cat out of the bag.The cat’s pajamas.Cat got your tongue?Curiosity killed the cat.These are just a few of the saying about cats that show how…