{"id":857,"date":"2026-03-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:52:36","slug":"cats-love-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/cats-love-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do cats love concrete slabs? A vet explains."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/why-cats-love-concrete-slabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-858 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Cats Love Concrete\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-1536x860.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.42.34-AM-2048x1147.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Becker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;Numerous videos of excited cat owners presenting their pets with concrete slabs, even taking trips to the hardware store to pick up some pavers&#8230;..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/why-cats-love-concrete-slabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Numerous videos of excited cat owners presenting their pets with concrete slabs, even taking trips to the hardware store to pick up some pavers&#8230;..\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}