The story of the jealous older child and the brand-new baby is an old standby at family reunions. My own mother loves to tell a version starring my 16-month-old self as the resentful toddler biting my brand-new baby sister’s toe. So when my husband and I recently decided to grow our family beyond the trio …
4 Ways to Keep Your First Cat Happy When You Adopt a Kitten Read More »
“I just had the most uplifting conversation with a pet mortician.” Words you don’t often get to say when discussing death and pets. But after my talk with Dan C. Harberts of Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park in Napa, California, “uplifting” was the word that sprang most readily to mind. Open since 1971, Bubbling Well, …
Dear Einstein, My people just brought home a cat they found in a field where someone left him. Newton seems nice enough. After we got our hissing and spitting out of the way, I found out he likes to play and wrestle, but ewww. The smell of his poop could peel paint. And his manners …
Ask Einstein the Cat: My Folks Took in a Stray and He’s Making Me Itchy Read More »
I know a lot of Catster readers like to share the bedroom with their cats, but sometimes a person chooses to keep cats out of the bedroom. Recently, I was traveling and stayed the night in a friend’s home. I hadn’t been in her house for more than a year. Within that year, R had …
How Do You Creatively Keep Your Cats Out of Certain Places? Read More »
We first met Lazarus a little more than a year ago, when he was just 10 weeks old and badly in need of a savior. The kitten with a face unlike any other had been found by students wandering the streets. Certain that the kitten needed help but unsure what exactly to do for him, …
We Check In With Lazarus, the Vampire Therapy Cat Read More »
