When I was a kid, I never saw a cat with a collar. It just wasn’t a thing. After all, cats were wild and free, and maybe it didn’t occur to anyone that cats could benefit from wearing “necklaces.” But according to a 2010 study, most cats take quite well to wearing collars. Here are …
When my husband and I first started bottle-feeding motherless kittens, we raised a sweet little orphan named Maynard. One morning I received a call from Lewisville Animal Services. One of the officers had picked up an abandoned litter of newborn kittens in the middle of a cow pasture. Could I take them? Could I? Newborn? …
Two years ago, after six years of living in an apartment, we presented our cat with an enclosed yard periodically filled with all manner of small local wildlife. Birds flit among the trees, mice hold meetings in the shrubbery, crows hop on the lawn, and never-seen things rattle the hedges. Our cat, to her credit, …
My Cat May Be the Worst Feline Huntress of All Time Read More »
Editor’s note: This article previously ran on Zee & Zoey’s Chronicle Connection, but we’re running it here with Deborah Barnes’ permission. The benefits of spay/neuter to cats and society at large are so significant that it would seem the discussion would be closed for debate. The procedure is a safe, effective, and humane means to …
The 10 Lamest Excuses for Not Spaying or Neutering Your Cat Read More »
I recently returned from an African safari in Tanzania with my sister Mar (who took all the amazing photos in this post), where I had the good fortune of seeing many big cats, particularly lions. I always knew from watching them on TV and seeing them at the zoo that lions and other big cats …
