Often, we consider how well the cat will suit us, and miss an equally important consideration. Which is how we, and our lifestyle, will suit the cat in question. see more Lolcats and funny pictures Cats are only happy when they fulfill their purpose; whatever that might be. Thanks to about 10,000 years of different [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rescue’
Dear Pammy, My cat is like Jekyll and Hyde
A reader writes: I have had a feral cat for 2 months now. I used to be able to pet her and she seemed to enjoy it. Now I pet her for a short period of time, then she seems to “freak out” and hiss and swat at me. Dear Reader, It can be very [...]
Abandonment Issues
It can crop up in the most devastating of ways; a cat, through no fault of their own, loses their family and winds up on the street or in the shelter. Or it can seem to be triggered in the simplest of ways; as when a cat misbehaves whenever we leave the house, and never [...]
The Early Years
As a kitten becomes an adolescent, they draw on all they have learned, so far, about the world. We want those experiences to be good ones. But we, and they, can also handle the bad ones. see more Lolcats and funny pictures Cats are more than the sum of their early experiences. This is not [...]
The cat who comes in from the cold
Sometimes, we choose the cat. Sometimes, the cat chooses us. There is something very powerful about the cat who seeks us out because they desperately need us. see more Lolcats and funny pictures So it’s very difficult to say no to a stray who starts hanging around, trying to catch our eye, eating the open [...]
