Category Archives: behavior

Finishing What They Started

Our cats can look obsessive when they persist in behavior that we don’t like, despite our best attempts to dissuade them. A cat trait which can exasperate anyone is the persistence with which our cats might continue to do something … Continue reading

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Dear Pammy, Can cats get depressed?

A reader writes: Can cats get depressed? What does it look like? Dear Readers, I know… how can we tell? Doesn’t the cat lie around all the time anyway? Aren’t they resigned and long-suffering as a default? see more Lolcats … Continue reading

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Dealing with the cat’s storage battery

This morning, our local heat wave broke; and a friend on the phone told me her two cats were “going mad!” We both knew why. They felt like playing now, when they hadn’t before. During the actual heat wave, cats … Continue reading

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