The next time somebody comes to your house and complains about the cat hair on your furniture, tell them that you leave it there for the sake of crime prevention. No, really. Do it! Here’s why. The DNA gathered from cat fur recently helped British investigators to convict David Hilder of the murder of David …
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Batgirl is pretty much a superhero. She never got the memo that cats are only allotted nine lives — or maybe she did and she ignored it. In any case, according to her adoptive mom, Linda Walker, the black rescue kitty has already used up several of those lives, and she’s only 16 months old. …
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It was the cutest thing for the first couple of months. After that it started to become slightly annoying. Now it’s just plain pest-y. The subject is behavior: I am talking about my cat, James, and his fascination with playing fetch. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great exercise that has helped him lose …
I was raised with a standard of cleanliness that some people would find incredible. You probably really could eat a meal off the floors of the house I grew up in. Did we have indoor animals? Yes — a cat and a dog and at for a short time, several kittens. But my mother kept …
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For most of us, our livers keep our blood clean and free of toxins. If those toxins were to build up, we could easily die. Hector the cat lives with this danger. In 2010, Hector was diagnosed with a liver shunt, meaning that the vessel that would have normally run his blood through his liver …
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Just like people, cats are subject to addiction. Catnip receives the most publicity; however there many cats who are running around with lesser known monkeys on their backs. My cats put on a pretty good facade — most addicts do — but behind those purrs are cries for help. I’ve known them long enough to …
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