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Cats: To Potty Train or Not to Potty Train

We can potty train our kids, but what about our cats? Do any of the products offering feline toilet training actually work? I don’t know anyone who has a toilet-trained cat. But that doesn’t mean I think they can’t work. Enough testimonials exist for me to believe that potty training kitties is possible, but with one major caveat: it takes a lot of time and a lot of mess. MSNBC Health published an article detailing the feline toilet-training process, complete with interviews with animal behaviorists, cat trainers, and real-life people who successfully taught their cats to use the toilet. Before … Continue reading →

Diary of a Cat Care B&B: I’m Not a Scratching Post (But I Play One on TV)

Maybe the heat is making our guests at the cats-only boarding facility a little cranky. Whatever the reason, I’ve been playing the role of scratching post at work lately! I won’t post pictures of my injuries, but just to tally them up: I have an inch-long bite mark on my left wrist, a three inch claw mark on my left forearm, two half-inch claw marks on the inside of my right forearm, three scratches on my chest, a two inch claw mark on the front of my left shoulder and a few more scrapes on the back of my left … Continue reading →

Diary of a Cat Care B&B: The Worst Yet

Oh, I’m sure there will be many other injuries in my work at the cats only boarding facility, but today I got the worst one yet. It’s a three inch claw mark on the outside of my forearm — almost exactly where my arm hits the edge of the laptop (ow) or rests on the edge of the desk (also ow). I tried to take a picture of it so you could see that I’m not exaggerating… but my camera is out of batteries. Plus, thinking of all the people who were grossed out by Moose’s green barf earlier this … Continue reading →

Is Your Cat Allergic? Wow, That’s a Switch!

Whenever I think of cats and allergies, I am reminded of a t-shirt I once saw a woman wearing in a New York subway. It read:” Husband and Kids Gone- Cat Allergic!” While this may seem an exaggerated twist of fate, it is more than ironic that a cat can contract allergies just like people can- namely my Maine Coon cat, Jasmine Dee. She started scratching both in and behind her ears, and did so with such force that the poor thing scratched the fur off the back of her ears! I rushed her to the vet and he gave … Continue reading →

Healing Cuts and Scrapes

Earlier this week, I took some time to learn about New-Skin (thanks to some misadventures with glass). Now in addition to the two cuts I got at the glass studio, I have a long scratch on my wrist from my work at the cats only boarding facility! It’s not been a great week for me when it comes to gracefulness. But I’ve got three good-sized wounds all on my right hand: a slice on my index finger, an odd L-shaped cut on the back of my hand (from jabbing myself with a cut piece of glass), and an inch-long claw … Continue reading →

The Books of Lilian Jackson Braun

Lilian Jackson Braun published her first three books, “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards,” “The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern” and “The Cat Who Turned On and Off” between 1966 and 1968, but then didn’t write again until 1986, for reasons unknown. She was then picked up by the Berkeley Publishing Group and made a reappearance, to the great joy of her fans, continuing “The Cat who. . .” series, starring the intelligent Siamese Koko and his friend, Yum Yum, also a Siamese, but female. Their owner, James Macintosh Qwilleran, otherwise known as Qwill, is a writer for the local … Continue reading →