Our promise
How we fact-check
On a subject like cats, you can find a confident answer and its exact opposite. Our stance is simple: publish only what we can verify, say so when we don't know, and always name our sources. Here is how we work.
Every page starts as a source file
Before a line is written, we collect what the registries, veterinary bodies and published studies actually say about the subject, claim by claim. What we cannot verify does not go in. A breed profile here typically stands on dozens of checked sources.
Three kinds of statement, one rule
Anything factual (numbers, dates, quotes, verdicts) is never invented and always sourced. A story told to illustrate a point is fine, as long as we say so. A hypothesis is presented as a hypothesis, never dressed up as a certainty.
One click to the source
Our baseline sources are institutional: the breed registries (TICA, CFA, GCCF, Canada's CCA-AFC, Australia's ACF), veterinary associations, and university studies. When we name a source, we link it, so you can read what we read.
We publish the absence
When nothing measures a claim, we say so on the page. No study weighs that breed at population level? You will read exactly that, instead of a registry estimate dressed up as a measurement. A missing number is a finding, not a gap to paper over.
Written for humans first
Short sentences, plain words, and a glossary tooltip on the technical ones. Tables and checklists where they beat prose. Search rankings come second, never at the expense of accuracy or clarity.
Dated, reviewed, kept current
Our profiles and guides carry a date, and we revisit them when the facts change: a price is a snapshot, a registry rule has a revision, a study can be superseded. Health content deserves maintenance, not freezing.
What we never do
- Invent a number, a study or a quote.
- Copy something over without checking or understanding it.
- Hide behind fake experts or vague sources.
- Convert a foreign price and publish it as a local one: each market's price is researched in that market, or the page says the figure is missing.
- Pad an article to make it look longer.
- Stand in for your veterinarian: when in doubt, we point you to a professional.
Health content informs, it never prescribes
Everything we publish about health describes cats in general. It never tells you what is wrong with YOUR cat, and it never replaces a veterinarian. Our pages tell you what to observe, what the thresholds are, and when to call. The house rule, in its own words: something wrong with your cat means call your vet, out of hours an emergency clinic. Nothing on this site is ever a reason to wait, and every health page carries that notice.
Money: four markets, four real prices
We write for readers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and a kitten does not cost the same in all four. So our price pages research each market separately, from that market's own breeders and marketplaces, with the source and the date next to the figure. A converted amount is never presented as a price: the small "about" line under a foreign figure is a courtesy conversion, nothing more. Measures work the same way: US units first, metric beside them.
The Vet's Take, and why some of them are empty
Our breed health sections include a space reserved for licensed veterinarians: The Vet's Take. Where it is empty, that is deliberate. Nothing gets signed as a vet's opinion until a real, verified vet has written or reviewed it, and we would rather show you an honest empty section than a fake white coat. Verified vets join by having their license checked against public professional registers. If that is you, we would love to hear from you.
Found an error?
Tell us: hello@feedmehooman.com. We check the claim against its sources, correct the page if you are right, and update its date. A site that says "fact-checked" owes you a working complaints desk.