The dryer scenario warm from a previous load, and the cat sees the door open and decides the dryer would be a warm and cozy place for a nap. In comes the ne...
Acidify that smell! If you think the smell of cat urine is offensive (and it assuredly is), then you know that your cat’s ultra-sensitive nose doesn’t like it e...
The anti-scoopable data digestive system . Every advance has its downside, and probably in the future there will be a “new and improved” litter that poses fewer hea...
Getting a buzz off electricity It looks dangerous, and sometimes it is: a cat gnawing on an electrical cord. Apparently the cat gets an actual buzz from doing this and may...
The worst kind of cat death Though the poet Thomas Gray wrote a famous poem on the drowning of a pet cat , cats rarely do drown because they can swim when they have to....
The second litter revolution Cat litter, made it easier to own a cat. Around the late 1970s, a new type of litter made it even easier. This was the “scoopable” type, mad...
How the agile are fallen! Everything has to be given a fancy name and an acronym these days, so try this one on: high-rise syndrome, or HRS. In laymen’s terms, HRS in...