Catster

Catster was a North American publishing brand built around cats, their owners and their breeders. It began in the early 2000s as a community website created by Ted Rheingold and Steven Reading, the same founders as the dog site Dogster, and grew into a publisher of cat care articles, personal stories and award-winning pet writing. It also sponsored an annual online pet photo contest with the PAWS Foundation. In 2015 the brand took over the long-running monthly Cat Fancy, first issued in 1965, and renamed it Catster magazine, which then appeared bimonthly. Belvoir Media Group bought the brand in 2017 and ended the print edition with the November and December 2023 issue, after selling Catster and Dogster to Pangolia in October 2023. The title shows how a hobby magazine, a web community and a changing set of owners can share one name.