You may be familiar with clicker training for dogs but did you know that clicker training for cats is recommended by many feline professionals? It’s a popular misconception that cats are untrainable.

It this sport, contestants sometimes lie down in the middle of the field, unmotivated and bemused. Feline-agility competitions, in which cats run through a miniature obstacle course full of hurdles ...

For the first time this year, dogs were not the only animals tackling hurdles, tunnels and weaving poles at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Cats were included in agility demonstration at the ...

Cat trainer and breeder Lisa-Maria Padilla, 52, of Reston, appeared with her blue Abyssinian cats at the National Capital Cat Show at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly over the weekend, Sept. 7-8.

Abyssinian cat trainer Lisa-Maria Padilla, 52, of Reston, is quite a fixture in the world of cats. Her performance cats called “Abys” do feats of athleticism all over the U.S. – at cat shows in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A border collie named Trick rocketed to a win full of four-footed focus in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show agility contest Saturday. And next door, also tackling hurdles, tunnels ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Dogs from petite papillions to muscular Rottweilers showed off their four-footed agility Saturday at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, tackling obstacles from hurdles to tunnels.