Even if you’re a hardcore adoption advocate, you’ve probably spent time looking at photos of purebred cats and thinking, “Boy, is that cat gorgeous!” Maybe you’ve even daydreamed about buying one of your favorite pedigreed kitties and imagined what it might be like to come home and find that perfectly amazing cat waiting for you …
5 Purebred Cat Breeds I’d Have a Hard Time Saying No To Read More »
Cats love the weirdest smells. A few days ago, my Saffy spent nearly an entire day with her nose buried in one of my daughter’s Converse sneakers. We all laughed because hardly anything made her budge. And if she did abandon the shoe to visit the litter box or grab a drink of water, she’d …
Did you know that the ancient Egyptians used domestic cats to guard their homes? And that cat fur was often used in medical potions? Or — and this one’s a little more grisly — that at one point kittens were bred to be mummified? These are things that my feline-obsessed self was not aware of …
We Speak to the Curator of Brooklyn Museum’s “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt” Read More »
The post begins, “A few years ago we began to create the most expressive, controllable, and playful Tail there could be.” Okay, fine. Who hasn’t thought about slapping some fabric around a piece of garden hose and knocking themselves out? But Greyworld is not made up of 12-year-olds with a summer afternoon to kill. According …
Serious Question: Would You Wear a Fully Functioning Cat Tail? Read More »
I started seeing a beautiful gray-and-white cat around the first of the year. It was big and fluffy, and always sat on the neighbors’ porch railing across the way, looking at the day ahead. When the neighbors moved, I assumed they took their striking kitty with them, and I didn’t think any more about it. …
My Cats Are Mad that I’m Feeding a Stray Under Their Noses Read More »
In veterinary school I frequently heard the following refrain: “Cats are not little dogs.” The goal of the statement was to point out that it is not safe to extrapolate medical knowledge from dogs to cats. Cats have unique metabolisms and physiology. They react in their own way to medicines, treatments, handling techniques, and diets. …
In Veterinary Medicine, Cats Lag Behind Dogs, and I’m Sick of It Read More »
