Before I became a cat parent I spent hours watching YouTube videos of highly trained felines doing highly awesome things. A lot of these trick performing pets were clicker trained, so I vowed that when I got my cat I would clicker train her. Well, Ghost Cat has been living with me for a full …
Can Your Cat Do Tricks? Or Is He Purely Decorative? Read More »
If you have spent any time on the Internet during the last month, you will have likely laughed at a video doing the rounds that shows a furious kitten attacking a statue of a cat. If you’ve not yet seen it, LOL at this cat now: That kitten isn’t the only feline to learn the …
School is back in full swing for the children in the neighborhood and Mittens is convinced he’s missing out on something. Certainly Mom should register him for classes — why should he be denied a formal education? Plus, nobody wants to be truant! He is clear on one thing, though: He will not be homeschooled …
Texts From Mittens: The Back-to-School (or Not) Edition Read More »
He’s tiny and unassuming, still small enough to fit in both of your hands without an issue. But Gene — named after Gene Simmons of the band KISS (mostly because his owner thought that Peter Criss wasn’t quite cool enough) — is full of some BIG spirit. When Gene was born on April 7 of …
What Happened When Gene the Kitten Swallowed a Needle Read More »
When someone you love is seconds away from barfing, would you scare and chase that person around the house? It seems way too cruel to even contemplate. But I did it once. Not with a person. With a cat, named Violet, a gray-and-white shorthair who I lived with in the 1990s. I can explain. See, …
That Time Martha Stewart Helped Me Clean Up Cat Vomit Read More »
