Editorial Policy
KnowCatHub publishes under clear rules for independence, evidence, corrections, and claims it will not make.
Independence
KnowCatHub is editorially independent. No advertiser, manufacturer, or retailer sees an article before it is published, and none has ever been offered that opportunity.
Nobody outside the editorial team can commission, veto, or amend a page.
Where a page carries advertising or an affiliate link, it is disclosed on that page, in plain language, positioned above the content it affects rather than in a footer.
A disclosure a reader has to hunt for is not a disclosure.
Authorship and review
Articles are written and edited by the KnowCatHub editorial team, and they are published under that byline.
No article is attributed to an invented individual. There are no fictional staff writers here, and no stock-photograph experts.
Veterinary review is treated as a specific, verifiable claim rather than a badge. When an article has been reviewed, it names the veterinarian, gives their credentials, and shows the review date.
When no reviewer is shown, no veterinary review is claimed. KnowCatHub never implies clinical authority it does not have.
Health and nutrition claims
KnowCatHub publishes general information. It cannot examine an animal, and it does not attempt to diagnose one.
Articles about health, symptoms, nutrition, and food safety carry a visible notice that the information is general and cannot replace an examination.
That distinction matters. A guide to brushing a long-haired cat has no business carrying a veterinary warning, and a site that puts one on every page teaches readers to ignore all of them.
For a health concern, you should be able to describe what you are seeing accurately and judge how quickly it needs attention.
Where a sign can indicate an emergency, that is stated explicitly and kept separate from the general advice. Breathing difficulty, collapse, and a male cat straining without producing urine are named as emergencies wherever they are relevant.
The line between watching at home and calling a vet is stated, never left to the reader to infer.
No article here claims that a food, supplement, or product treats or prevents a disease.
Food-safety verdicts
Food-safety answers carry one of six verdicts: generally safe, safe in small amounts, depends on preparation, not recommended, toxic, or depends on the individual cat.
Each verdict follows the evidence for that specific food, including the amount, preparation, and differences between individual cats. A food's name alone never decides the answer.
Five of the six sit on a severity ramp from green to red. The sixth, depends on the individual cat, is deliberately neutral in colour, because it is a real answer rather than a point on that ramp.
A verdict is only published alongside the reasoning that produced it and the sources it was checked against. A colour-coded badge with no argument behind it is decoration pretending to be evidence.
Where the evidence is genuinely mixed, the article says that rather than picking a side for the sake of a cleaner answer.
Products and affiliate links
KnowCatHub does not rank products, score them, or name a best one.
Gear guides describe the job an item has to do and the properties that let it do that job. The reader applies that to whatever is in front of them.
There are no star ratings or aggregate scores on this site.
That is a deliberate structural choice. Ratings invite manipulation, and a rating on a page nobody tested is a fabrication.
Reader reviews and testimonials are not published, because we have no way to verify them.
When a material claim cannot be substantiated, it is omitted or clearly described as uncertain.
- Product ratings
- None published
- Aggregate scores
- Never published
- Reader reviews
- Not accepted
- Sponsored placements
- Declined without exception
- Affiliate links
- Disclosed above the content they affect
Use of AI assistance
KnowCatHub uses AI-assisted tools and generated illustrative photography.
They are not used as a source of fact. A claim does not enter an article because a language model produced it.
Material health, nutrition and food-safety claims are checked against the linked guidance or research listed at the foot of the page.
A model can help write a sentence, and it cannot be the reason the sentence is true.
Editorial responsibility for every published statement rests with the editorial team.
Corrections and withdrawals
Corrections are welcome and they get made. Reporting one is the most useful thing a reader can do here.
Reports go to the address on the contact page. Please include the page address and, where you can, the source that contradicts us.
A factual error is corrected as soon as it is confirmed, and the page's updated date moves with the change.
Substantive corrections, meaning ones that change the advice rather than the wording, are noted on the page itself.
An article that can no longer be supported is withdrawn rather than quietly reworded.
The updated date changes only when the information on the page changes.
Conflicts of interest
Nobody who writes or edits here holds a commercial interest in a cat food, litter, pharmaceutical, or insurance brand.
If that ever changes, the interest will be declared on every page it could plausibly touch, not once in a footer.
We accept no free products for review, because this site does not review products.
The cleanest way to avoid being bought is to sell nothing.
What counts as a correction
Not every edit is a correction, and treating them the same would make the label meaningless.
| Change | Counts as | Noted on the page |
|---|---|---|
| A fact was wrong | Correction | Yes |
| Advice changed direction | Correction | Yes |
| Guidance updated after new evidence | Update | Yes |
| Wording clarified, meaning unchanged | Edit | No |
| Typo or broken link fixed | Edit | No |
| Claim can no longer be supported | Withdrawal | Page removed, returns 404 |
In every case the page's updated date moves, because the page changed.
Accessibility
An answer nobody can read is not an answer.
Pages use semantic headings in order, visible keyboard focus, a skip link, and text that meets contrast requirements against its background.
Images carry alt text describing the subject, and decorative artwork is hidden from screen readers rather than described pointlessly.
Tables scroll inside their own container so a wide table never forces the whole page sideways on a phone.
If an accessibility problem remains, readers can report it through the contact page.
Images
Photography on this site is generated, and it illustrates generic subjects: an unnamed cat, a bowl, a brush.
No image here depicts a specific, identifiable animal, and no image is used to illustrate a medical condition.
Every image carries alt text that describes the subject, and images that would add nothing to a screen reader are marked decorative instead.
An image on this site illustrates a subject, and never stands in as evidence for a claim.
Generic subjects only
An unnamed cat, a bowl, a brush. Never a specific identifiable animal.
Described, not decorated
Every image carries alt text naming its subject, or is marked decorative.
Illustration, not evidence
A picture never stands in for a source or a veterinary examination.
When a reader disagrees
Disagreements arrive regularly and they fall into three kinds, each handled differently.
The first is a plain factual error. That is corrected as soon as it is confirmed, and the person who reported it is told.
The second is a genuine difference of clinical opinion, usually where the evidence is thin. Where that happens the page is changed to report the disagreement rather than to pick the side that arrived most recently.
The third is a disagreement with a vet who has examined the animal. There is no contest there.
A vet with the cat in front of them outranks anything written here, every time.
What will not change a page is commercial pressure, volume of complaint, or an assertion with no source attached.
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KnowCatHub is written by an editorial team rather than by a veterinarian. What it offers instead is stated reasoning and the sources behind it, named and linked.