Sandburg and fog

The beloved American poet Carl Sandburg wrote one of the world’s most famous cat poems—though it really isn’t about cats. It is “Fog,” publi...

What’s in that dry stuff anyway?

You can’t take meat or fish or chicken and magically transform it into tiny bits of dry cat food ... or can you? The animal protein found in ...

The good news about ticks

country can spot a “full” (blood-gorged) tick right away, appearing as a big brown lump hanging somewhere on a pet. Some not-too-bright p...

For the woodsy cat

The author, a former camp counselor, is very familiar with chiggers, also called harvest mites. They are common in woodsy areas, and they bu...

That satisfying crunching sound

If you’ve ever heard a cat chowing down on dry food, you would assume they are enjoying it, and with good reason, because the crunchy qualit...

Mangy mites

You may know that mange is a skin disease, but did you know it’s caused by mites? Mites are not insects, but are tiny members of the Arachni...

Dry, but not really

If you place dry cat food on a paper towel and leave it there a while, you’ll find later that the paper towel has absorbed moisture. “Dry” fo...