Cat in the Poe house

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) gave the world some enchanting poetry and some truly chilling horror stories, none more memorable than “The Blac...

Paying for a lot of water

house . Owners faced with a finicky cat usually find they can easily solve the duduk perkara with canned food. While there is nothing wrong...

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...