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Diary of a Cat Care B&B: Difficult Darlings

I’d like to say that I haven’t met a cat I haven’t liked in my work at the cats only boarding facility. Sure, I have my favorites. There are some cats I just bond with and some cats I don’t. Then there are the cats who like to mess with my head. We’ve got one guest at the boarding facility now who has been driving me crazy. She’s a striking Persian mix, with a calico coat. Perhaps the most amazing thing about her looks is her eyes: they are a dark amber/orange color. Quite a lovely little cat! When she … Continue reading →

Quiet Companions (of the Feline Persuasion)

We have some guests at the cats-only boarding facility who are known talkers. Personally, I like the talkers. They’re good company! Sometimes, I talk back… but then I’m always talking to the dogs at home, too. Like I said, good company. But there are times when the talking can get to be overwhelming. I recently saw a list of the most talkative and the least talkative cat breeds — and if talkability is important to you in a pet, the info might be useful. At the very least, I hope it’s interesting! You can maybe guess the most talkative breed … Continue reading →

Love For The Ugly

There was a headline on the news this morning: who wants to save an ugly animal? There are two ways you can read that: as a call for volunteers or as who wants to bother saving them because they’re ugly? Ugly (and beauty) is in the eye of the beholder. Is a dog who has lost a leg to a car accident ugly? A cat who lost part of an ear in a fight? A pet who carries the scars of past abuses? We each have our own set of aesthetics. Some people find the smashed-in faces of pugs and … Continue reading →

The Honeybear: Sweetness And Beauty

Believe it or not, a woman named Ann Baker created this breed in a laboratory in California when she for some unknown reason, selected genes from a skunk, deposited them into a female Persian cat and mated that cat with a random male cat. The resulting kittens looked a lot like skunks (surprise!), being born silver and later turning black with stripes along the head, back or underside (no smelling mechanism however). These cats were so exceptionally sweet and friendly that they became the foundation stock for the Honeybear breed, which was sustained by crossing the males from that and … Continue reading →

The Exotic Shorthair: The Best of Two Worlds

It looks like a Persian cat, but it isn’t, as the fur is decidedly different. What is this adorable creature that almost looks like a teddy bear? The Exotic Shorthair seems to be a Persian cat whose plush coat was somehow stolen. Dating back to the 1960s, this breed occurred when an American Shorthair was crossed with a Persian cat. The result was a creature that retains all of the loving and placid ways of the Persian, but none of the work associated with maintaining that glorious but labor-intensive coat. This breed is sometimes referred to as “the lazy man’s … Continue reading →