Cats

Exploring the Reasons Behind This Quirky Behavior — As feline guardians, few things are more amusing than observing our fur babies engage in their feline antics. In my household, we have two cats: Georgia, an old tuxedo who’s content to snooze the day away in her poof, and Homer, a one-year-old black kitty with a particular fascination for…

Putting an animal down is never easy. — She was unassuming. Sitting at the front of her cage at the shelter, the stray cat did little to draw attention to herself. The attendant had cured my craving to view each desired cat by removing them from their crate to the floor, and suddenly, the room was alive with…

I feel dead inside. For the past three days, nothing brings me joy. Eating, sleeping, walking, writing, breathing — it all feels tasteless. Why? Because my heartless neighbor abandoned two beautiful kittens in some distant place, and their poor mother is searching and crying for them everywhere. I don’t understand…

They seem to like it, and it’s completely dog-proof — I’ve heard the coyotes singing across the fields, and I’ve seen neighbors’ dogs running loose with fresh blood on their mouths from whatever they had just killed. Needless to say, I worry about my outdoor cats. I live in two rooms in my sister’s house — two rooms which I…

Sometimes things turn out as good as you hoped for! — This house, this cat, and the new tenants were one of the most prayed-for situations in our family history. I think that may have helped with the perfect outcome. New tenants arrive. I didn’t want to keep everyone hanging so long for a follow-up but I also didn’t have anything new to share…