It was just after midnight and I was drifting off to sleep. "There! What was that noise? Damn cats, what are they doing now?" I muttered in my head as I jerked awake. Hauling myself erect and grabbing a robe, I stumbled out of the darkened bedroom. Turning on glaring lights, I headed in the …
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet uttered those famous words in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Roughly translated, Juliet tells Romeo that a name is artificial and meaningless, and that she loves the person, not the name. A far less poetic line, and …
When the person who bought this fan heater picked it out at the store, do you think he or she expected to find a cat in the box? It’s a new trend that’s going around in these tough economic times of limited resources — no longer able to source the materials to produce an actual …
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum — how tempting are your branches! It’s nearly impossible to have a totally risk-free, cat-proof Christmas tree. Somehow the cats always manage to find something to knock down, chew up, or pee on. This is why we can’t have nice things. We love our cats for their interactions and curiosity, so …
When a Dallas man discovered Zeki crying under his deck on July 5, 2009, the gentle white kitten’s injuries were so gruesome that he nearly passed out. Someone had apparently skinned part of the cat’s lower back with a hunting knife. Three and a half years later, Zeki works as a feline teaching assistant in …
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