19 guides on this site
Tess Lindqvist
Writer, cat products and everyday health
Tess Lindqvist writes the cat side of Paws & Whiskers, plus the health-adjacent categories where a label makes a claim the evidence has to back. The question asked of every product is the one owners actually ask at 3am: will the animal use it, and does it do the thing the box says.
Most of what appears under this byline is about the size of an effect rather than its existence. A joint supplement with green-lipped mussel in it at a dose nobody discloses is not the same product as one that prints milligrams per scoop, and a guide that reports the first without the second is why people buy things that do not help. Where the literature is thin, it gets called thin. Where a category is really a behaviour problem wearing a product costume — most litter box failures are — the guide says that too, and points at the vet visit that should come first. Not a veterinarian, not a veterinary technician, and never written as either.
Picks under this byline come from the full ingredient panel or material specification, the veterinary and regulatory guidance that applies to the category, and owner reports read at volume for the pattern rather than the anecdote. No brand sees a guide before it publishes, and nothing here is a substitute for your own vet.
