By Farah Al-Khojai
Cats are marvelous creatures that can reduce your stress with just a simple purr. Unfortunately, having them as companions at home may leave behind smell and hair that add to your daily cleaning chores. Keeping a clean home with a cat isn’t impossible – it just needs some extra work and patience.
Below are cleaning rules to stick to if you want to keep a pristine home with your feline friend.… Click here to continue reading...
Guest Post By Daniel Richardson
Every year in the UK, 230,000 cats are killed on the roads, that’s a colossal 630 cats killed every single day in the UK alone. Global figures are likely to be well into the tens of thousands.
With our roads more busy than ever your cat is infinitely safer indoors. Yet the arguments against keeping an indoor cat are usually along the lines of it being cruel to deny a cat the freedom to explore, hunt and play in the great outdoors.… Click here to continue reading...
If you want a happy, well-adjusted cat, here’s 10 things you should not do…
1. Shout At Your CatWhether you’re shouting at your cat because it did something that annoyed you or you’re shouting for another reason, you’ll terrify your cat. A cat’s ears are far more sensitive to noise than ours and loud sounds are amplified to painful levels in a cat’s ears.… Click here to continue reading...
It took a bit longer than expected but the results of all of Fritz’s blood tests are now back.
He definitely doesn’t have a thyroid problem. That’s been confirmed. And his kidneys are fine (they’re actually working very well for a 17 year-old cat).
However, he does have liver problems probably brought on by an impairment of how his bone marrow is working.… Click here to continue reading...
I called into the vet today to get a progress update on Fritz.
He was successfully rehydrated overnight and ate a good big meal last night but today hadn’t eaten all that much. He’s peeing freely which is good but no bowel movements as yet so the vets can’t assess if all is ok there yet.
Fritz when he was about 6 years old
He’s put on about 0.2Kg overnight, most of which is due to fluid replacement.… Click here to continue reading...
Fritz, my remaining elderly cat (he’ll be 18 in April), hasn’t been well for the last couple of weeks. He’s suffered from asthma for several years now but giving him tablets regularly has pretty much kept that under control except for the odd coughing fit.
Here he is, sleeping in his cat igloo
He also has arthritis as so so many old cats.… Click here to continue reading...
