The great high-jumpers, fleas

eggs nearly anywhere, including in carpeting and air ducts, and they reproduce very fast. Their bloodsucking can cause health problems (s...

The old food switcheroo

creatures of habit (as are humans), and yet they need variety in their diet, so owners are sometimes in the awkward position of having to c...

Those lousy lice

lice chomp on skin tissue and are contagious via contact, specifically by passing from one host’s hair to another host’s hair. The nasty lit...

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 ...