What do you do when staring down an unexpected or expensive vet bill? Or when your cat is suddenly itching and scratching a lot (or similar) and no vets are available for days except the ultra-expensive, wait-forever emergency clinic? Here are some of the best ideas I’ve found.
Dear cat lover, If you’ve ever lost a soul cat, you will appreciate the depth of love and grief the poet Deva describes for her beloved Benji. You will recognize feeling how precious the time we have with them is. And if you’ve ever lost a cat suddenly and unexpectedly, you will feel understood and…
Plants beautify your house and clean the air, but cats make a house a home. Now we can have both! I took a deep dive into the ASPCA plant database to bring you these beautiful cat-friendly ambassadors from the plant kingdom. (After an earlier post on this topic, I decided we need more cat-safe houseplant…
By Rhiannon Hutchinson Back in the 90’s, my soul mate kitty, Tabitha, was diagnosed at 10-years old with injection site sarcoma between her shoulder blades. It was caused by a rabies vaccine, and that kind of cancer is especially bad because it grows like an octopus: it puts out long tentacles in every direction, which…
Something on my mind this month is… kittens! As in, adopted and adorable. Once again, the advice to let the cat pick you proved right on! But required patience as we visited kitty cafes and shelters and followed up on Nextdoor ads. We were smitten—of course—with all the kittens, but we waited for ones who truly…
I’d like to introduce you to Lisa Knight and her beautiful 16.5 year old cat, Simba. They join the ranks of inspiring cancer healing stories here, where a cat beats the predictions that he only has weeks to live. When she sent me this story, she said: “Your post about Nate (recovering from high-grade lymphoma) was something…
