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Cat Chat®

Hosted by Tracie Hotchner · kids · EN-US

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About this Podcast:

CAT CHAT ® was Tracie Hotchner's own weekly, live call-in show on the Martha Stewart channel of Sirius-XM for 7 years – until the channel was canceled. Since 2015 it has been a weekly podcast carrying on her mission to educate and inspire cat lovers to optimize their relationship with their kitty cats by giving them the best possible nutrition and environmental enrichment. Tracie’s frequent co-host is Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado of Feline Minds Cat Behavior Consulting and author of the new book Play With Your Cat! the Essential Guide to Interactive Play for a Happier, Healthier Feline . <img src="http://www.radiopetlady.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DrElseysWeSpeakForCats.728x90.jpg"

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Booking probability

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Guest openness

Selective

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What is Cat Chat® about?

CAT CHAT ® was Tracie Hotchner's own weekly, live call-in show on the Martha Stewart channel of Sirius-XM for 7 years, until the channel was canceled.

Who hosts Cat Chat®?

Cat Chat® is hosted by Tracie Hotchner. The show has published 323 episodes to date.

What has Cat Chat® covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Cat Bites Can Be Dangerous, But They're Doing Something Normal" (26 October 2026, 15 minutes), "Does Your Cat have Hidden Heart Disease?" (19 October 2026, 18 minutes), and "Your Kitty Will Always Be With You" (12 October 2026, 17 minutes).

How often does Cat Chat® publish?

Cat Chat® publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 323 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Cat Chat®?

Booking probability for Cat Chat® is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cat Chat® requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cat Chat®'s contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch Cat Chat®?

The strongest fits for Cat Chat® are Pet Care & Other Personal Services. Cat Chat® has a kids audience.

About the host

Tracie Hotchner hosts Cat Chat®, a kids podcast with 323 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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    Cat Bites Can Be Dangerous — But They're Doing Something Normal

    Oct 26, 202615 min

    #327: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds consulting explains that biting is a normal feline behavior. It's up to people to know their own cat and to read cat body language about when interactions with them have gone...

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    Does Your Cat have Hidden Heart Disease?

    Oct 19, 202618 min

    #326: Dr. Ashlie Saffire (DABVP) is a feline specialist in Dublin, Ohio, whose clients come from as far as California for routine care. She is particularly focused on cardiac disease issues, which often show up in...

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    Your Kitty Will Always Be With You

    Oct 12, 202617 min

    #325: Cathryn Michon's newest book - "i'm still here - a cat's purpose forever," is a prose poem surrounded by enchanting watercolors — reminding us that our cats may have crossed the rainbow bridge but they never leave...

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    Cats Should Eat Like the Carnivores They Are

    Oct 5, 202628 min

    #324: Cats are obligate carnivores — so why are so many of them eating like they aren’t? Tracie talks with feline nutrition expert Dr. Deb Zoran of Texas A&M University, whose groundbreaking paper “The Carnivore...

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    Cat Rescue in Seoul — “the Impossible Possible”

    Sep 28, 202629 min

    #323: Tracie talks with Julie Choi, founder of Yongsan Cats in Seoul, South Korea, where the city’s frequent redevelopment projects put thousands of community cats at risk. What began for Julie with two kittens spotted...

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    NYC Cats After 9-11

    Sep 21, 202620 min

    #322: Tracie talks with filmmaker Cathe Neukum about Feral, her deeply moving documentary chronicling the rescue of cats left trapped and abandoned in lower Manhattan after 9/11. Cathe explains how an earlier career...

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    The 30-Year Devotion of the Cat Lady

    Sep 14, 202617 min

    #321: Filmmaker Megan Liz Smith joins Tracie to talk about her moving short documentary Cat Lady, featured in the 9th Annual New York Cat Film Festival, premiering September 26th in New York City. The film follows...

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    The Bridge Between Wild & Domestic

    Sep 7, 202618 min

    #320: Filmmaker Asako Ushio joins Tracie to talk about her extraordinary documentary set on Japan’s remote Tashiro Island, where cats live in a fascinating space somewhere between wildness and domestication. Featured in...

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    Cat Saviors in Greece

    Aug 31, 202618 min

    #319: Documentary filmmaker Molly Dennis joins Tracie to talk about her film Cat People, which will be featured in the 9th Annual New York Cat Film Festival, premiering September 26th in New York City. The documentary...

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    Cats & Kids

    Aug 24, 202616 min

    #318: Stephen Quandt of https://catbehaviorhelp.com/ talks about the various ways that children can be involved in choosing a cat from a shelter and then enhancing the bond in living with them. Children on the autism...

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    Midnight Feline Frolics

    Aug 17, 202613 min

    #317: Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds consulting talks about all the ways that cats can find to wake you up in the middle of the night — and how to manage nocturnal cat activity.

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    Protecting NYC's Un-Owned Cats Since 9-11

    Aug 10, 202620 min

    #316: Mike Phillips tells the history of the Urban Cat League — rescuing cats after the World Trade Center bombing, making a refuge for them — and continuing to improve the lives of street cats to this day.

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    A Cat Who Wants to take Showers With You?

    Aug 3, 202610 min

    #315: A listener wrote Tracie to ask how it was possible that two different cats she's had want to get in the shower with her! Resident cat expert Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado discusses the likelihood of this unusual feline...

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    What to Know About Cats and Mammary (Breast) Cancer

    Jul 27, 202629 min

    #314: The nonprofit EveryCat Health Foundation financed a study across 5 countries of mammary tumors in cats, with surprising results explained by Dr. Maggie Placer, the veterinarian who is the Science Program Manager...

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    Legalizing the Thousands of NYC Bodega Cats

    Jul 20, 202616 min

    #313: Dan Rimada is leading the push to legalize and protect bodega cats by creating a citywide archive of cats in NYC bodegas (estimates are 5,500 of them) which he and fellow volunteers have started documenting...

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    Vincent Gets Off Kitty Crack with CleanProtein

    Jul 13, 202618 min

    #312: Andrey (who created Brook Fountain) reports that his adopted cat, Vincent, who was completely hooked on kitty krack, transitioned off unhealthy kibble by starting with Dr. Elsey's CleanProtein dry food, then going...

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    HARD HAT CATS NYC: Hard at Work Keeping Rats at Bay

    Jul 6, 202621 min

    #311: Sheila Massey talks about her Hard Hat Cats NYC, which puts unadoptable cats from the NYC shelter into breweries, restaurants and retail stores where they provide non toxic rodent control in return for safety: a...

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    Turn Your Sofa Into a Scratching Outpost

    Jun 29, 202611 min

    #310: Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado of FelineMinds cat behavior consulting, explains that you cannot — nor should you — try to stop a cat from scratching, which is a natural and essential behavior. Instead, you need to offer...

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    Premium Cat Food at Supermarket Prices

    Jun 22, 202620 min

    #309: Allison Ward, the founder of Salty Cat, launched her company with the intention of creating a lower-priced cat food with premium ingredients. How did she do it? Simple! By lowering her profit margin, while also...

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    The “Elevator Butt” Style of Peeing

    Jun 15, 202614 min

    #308: Cat behaviorist Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado explains another way to look at “vertical peeing” — cats who raise their butts like a rising elevator to pee behind themselves. But because they have all four feet in the...

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