Its owner has since decided to pause the temple visits, which almost always turned out like a fan meet. Read more at ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Spending on pets hit Rmb300bn ($42bn) last year, up 7.5 per cent on the previous year, according to a report by pet sector ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

from pandas in the bamboo forests of China to polar bears in the frozen North, but another family of animals ignites my passion more than any: big cats. My interest in big cats stretches back to ...

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to 168 B.C. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat.