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When instincts work against them

In most kinds of fiction writing, a popular scenario is known as the “fish out of water.” The rural police officer chases a suspect to the Big City, or the childless relative inherits a large batch of children, or an extraterrestrial moves in next door; we’ve seen it a million times. Because it always works. [...]

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Why Cats Love Keyboards

What is the mysterious, irresistible, force which pulls our cats onto our keyboards? Power. see more Lolcats and funny pictures The power isn’t magnetism or a spell cast to keep us from our work; only the simple pull of curiosity. There must be something fun to this, the cats think, because my human finds it [...]

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Kitty Outposts

One of the things the cat newbie finds puzzling and annoying is their kitten or cat’s insistence about climbing onto furniture, large appliances, and architectural touches. Cats don’t want to be on the floor all the time. They’re right. But it’s not because they want to “look down” on us. At least, not the way [...]

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Giving it to the cat

One of the most enduring misconceptions about cat training is when people hesitate to give a cat something, thinking this would signal the cat that they can have all those somethings. Both cats and people will have less frustration when the human learns the opposite is true. see more Lolcats and funny pictures A case [...]

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Cats Who Sneak: Satisfaction

The room can be as small as a closet, or as big as a basement. Whenever its door is opened, a cat wants to sneak into it. It can seem to us that our cat is trying to sneak in unobserved, but cats are smart enough to know that is unlikely when we are standing [...]

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