Cat Blogs: 43 Sites Checked Live, With Domain Rating and Last Post

Cat blogs are a crowded field and the roundups of them are useless in a specific way: they list the same fifteen names, half of which have been absorbed into larger media sites, and they never say which of the remaining independents still post. The Conscious Cat, for instance, now redirects into Catster, and its own homepage says so.

On 11 September 2026 we loaded every site that ranks for cat blogs in the United States, kept the ones that publish about cats, pulled an Ahrefs domain rating for each and read the newest post date from each site's own feed. Then we sorted them by what they are, because a certified behaviour consultant's blog, a Ragdoll breed site and a cat comic are not the same kind of thing.

How the list was checked

Twelve cat searches produced 140 unique domains. Ninety seven were dropped once opened: the ASPCA and the big welfare charities, litter and food brands, furniture shops, pet insurers, a hair salon, several veterinary practices whose blog is a marketing appendix, two European sites in Polish and German, and Cornell and WebMD, which rank for cat health but are not blogs. Forty three remained.

The checks: homepage loaded with a browser user agent, title and description kept; Ahrefs domain rating looked up for the host; RSS or Atom feed requested and the newest date read. Thirty three sites gave a date. Eight gave no feed and are marked No feed found, which for the media sites among them (Kitten Lady, Adventure Cats, The Catnip Times) means the platform hides it, not that they stopped.

Two sites, sparklecat.com and loveofacat.com, served a bot challenge to MentionAgent's crawler. Both resolve a rating and appear without a date.

Behaviour consultants and veterinary writers

This is the group with credentials, and it is where the writing has the most consequence for the cat.

Cat Behavior Associates (catbehaviorassociates.com, DR 60) is Pam Johnson-Bennett, the best-known cat behaviour consultant in the US, last dated 23 Jun 2026. What Your Cat Wants (whatyourcatwants.com, DR 31) is Dr Mikel Maria Delgado's blog, posted 25 Jun 2026. Cat Behavior Solutions (catbehaviorsolutions.org, DR 37) and the Feline Behaviour Coach (felinebehaviourcoach.com, DR 32) are certified consultants who publish; Patience for Cats (patienceforcats.com) in Pittsburgh and My Family Cat (myfamilycat.com), a mobile behaviour vet in Austin, are the local end.

Little Big Cat (littlebigcat.com, DR 49) is Dr Jean Hofve, a veterinarian, on natural and integrative cat health, dated 30 Aug 2026. Two Crazy Cat Ladies (twocrazycatladies.com, DR 42) is health education aimed at owners and posted 9 Sep 2026. CatFoodDB (catfooddb.com, DR 26) is a database of food reviews rather than a blog, included because it is what people searching for cat blogs are often looking for.

The independent cat blogs

Single-author sites with a personality. Several have been running for well over a decade and most are still current.

hauspanther (hauspanther.com, DR 53) is Kate Benjamin on cats and design and posted 10 Sep 2026. Floppycats (floppycats.com, DR 48) is the Ragdoll site, 4 Sep 2026. Cat Wisdom 101 (catwisdom101.com, DR 42) is Layla Morgan Wilde, 1 Sep 2026. Traveling Cats (traveling-cats.com, DR 42) covers cat cafés and cat-friendly destinations. The Discerning Cat (thediscerningcat.com, DR 33) and CatTipper (cattipper.com, DR 29) are both current.

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows (mochasmysteriesmeows.com, DR 31), The Cat On My Head (thecatonmyhead.com, DR 23) and Cat Versus Human (catversushuman.com, DR 27, a comic) all posted on the day we checked. Dash Kitten (dashkitten.com, DR 26) teaches cat photography. KittyClysm (kittyclysm.com, DR 39), a cat facts and reviews blog, last posted 30 Sep 2024; I Have Cat (ihavecat.com, DR 29) is the oldest date in the set at 18 Jul 2017, kept because it still ranks and still loads.

Bengal Cat Lovers Blog (bengalcats.co, DR 48) and Maine Coon Central (mainecooncentral.com, DR 38) are the other breed sites. Katzenworld (katzenworld.co.uk, DR 47) is British and included because it ranks in the US for this search. The Happy Cat Site, The Joy of Cats, Cat Lovers Only and Sparkles and Sunshine complete the independent set.

The media sites and the rescues

The big end of the list. Catster (catster.com, DR 75) has absorbed several formerly independent blogs, The Conscious Cat among them, and posted on the day we checked. Cats.com (DR 72) does product reviews and behaviour guides. Modern Cat (moderncat.com, DR 62) is the magazine. CatTime (cattime.com, DR 61), Love Meow (lovemeow.com, DR 56), iHeartCats (iheartcats.com, DR 50), Cattitude Daily (cattitudedaily.com), Life With Cats (lifewithcats.tv) and The Catnip Times (thecatniptimes.com) are the story-and-facts sites.

The rescue and welfare organisations publish too, and their ratings are the highest here. Alley Cat Allies (alleycat.org, DR 76) is the strongest domain in the list. Kitten Lady (kittenlady.org, DR 68) is Hannah Shaw's neonatal kitten site. Adventure Cats (adventurecats.org, DR 58) covers cats outdoors. None of the three exposes a feed.

A well-linked niche

Median Domain Rating across the 43 is 39, with only four sites at 24 or below and seven at 60 or above. Compare that with the hobby and trade lists we have checked the same way, where the median sits in the 20s and a third of sites are under 25. Cats are a large, general-interest niche with a lot of linking, and it shows: even the personal blogs here mostly sit in the 25 to 45 range.

The practical consequence is that a new cat blog has a harder climb than a new trout or embroidery blog, and that for anyone pitching, the middle of this list (the DR 25 to 45 independents) is where a mention is both attainable and worth having.

If you want a mention from one of these

Cat product brands are the most frequent pitchers in any pet niche, and cat bloggers are correspondingly the most tired of it. The pattern that still works is specific: a product the blogger's own cat would plausibly use, a note that references a post they wrote, and one clear ask.

Send the behaviour consultants nothing that is not about behaviour. Send the rescues nothing that is not a donation. The independent blogs in the middle of the table are the realistic targets, and the date column tells you which of them are reading their inbox this month. Our blogger outreach tools guide covers working a list this size and the guest post pitch template is written to be edited per site. If the finding and the first draft should run without you, that is what MentionAgent's agent is for.

The full table, with domain rating and last post

Ordered by the newest post we could read. The eight sites without a readable feed and the two that blocked our crawler follow, ranked by domain rating. Ratings pulled on 11 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best cat blogs?

For behaviour, Pam Johnson-Bennett's Cat Behavior Associates (DR 60) and Dr Mikel Delgado's What Your Cat Wants. For independent writing, hauspanther, Floppycats and Cat Wisdom 101 were all current in September 2026. Catster (DR 75) and Cats.com are the largest and both posted the week we checked.

Is The Conscious Cat still a separate blog?

No. consciouscat.net now redirects into Catster, and its own homepage says so. It appears in our table under its own domain with a rating, marked as now part of Catster.

Are cat blogs still active?

Largely yes. Of the 33 sites in this list that gave a feed date, 23 had posted in the 90 days before 11 September 2026, and five posted on the day itself. The oldest date in the set is I Have Cat, at July 2017.

Why is the median Domain Rating so high?

Cats are a large general-interest niche with a lot of linking. The median here is 39 and only four sites sit at DR 24 or below, against a median in the 20s for the hobby and trade lists we have checked the same way. Even the personal blogs mostly sit between 25 and 45.

How were the last post dates found?

From each site's own RSS or Atom feed on 11 September 2026. Eight sites expose no feed and are marked "No feed found". Sparkle Cat and Love of a Cat served our crawler a bot challenge and are marked "Blocked to our crawler"; both are live and rated.

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