Social skills

person who grew up in large family generally may have better social skills than someone from a small family. This is, in a way, true for ca...

The lactose problem

milk . The end result (pardon the pun) is usually diarrhea, for either the person or the cat. This needs to be kept in mind by doting cat ...

Little boys and their toys

Both male and female kittens will happily chase after rolling objects, just as they will swat at suspended objects like strings and strips o...

The dreaded hairball!

digestive tract. Some cats never get them (my own hasn’t—knock on wood); some cats get them rarely and vomit them up with no harm to them...

Pedigreed puberty

neutered , for reasons discussed elsewhere in this blog. The usual rule is to have the cat neutered before the cat reaches sexual maturity...

Then on to real preying

mothers . So how old is a cat when he can do his own killing? Roughly two months, by which time most kittens can catch and kill a mouse. Her...

“Cat on a hot tin roof”

The playwright Tennessee Williams immortalized this phrase in the title of one of his dramas, even though the cat in his play was a woman, n...