When Athos died, I was crushed, gutted. Everything in me was just trying to brace for the full emotion - trying not to push it aside, so I could grieve. Sometimes I could, sometimes, it was too much, so I did what I could to get through the day. It was ages before I could think back to the day I lost him, although my brain would sometimes send me intrusive thoughts, flashbacks to that ...
After Athos: Why does 3 cats feel like so much more than 2? :(
(In the last post I informed you guys that my precious, dearly beloved cat, Athos has recently passed. I'm still not ready to talk about certain elements of the whole situation, but I do want to share my thoughts and feelings of grief as I become ready to share with you - mostly in the form of practically journal entries I've been writing to myself since Athos passed - along the way. I hope you ...
Gutted: My Dear Cat, Athos, Passed Away
He's been gone for a little while now. Maybe a week ago? I'd have to look up the exact date because time blurs for me and I was grieving so hard for a time that I could not even say it on this blog. I am completely and utterly gutted and I feel it will take me a long time to recover. But certain things give me comfort... First, I know we did everything we could, and so did the vets. This ...
My Cat Hated the 2 New Cats – Now His Personality Changed, for the Better
My husband Thomas and I adopted our first cat - Avery, a stray we found in our garden - back in 2013. He was an only-child cat for years upon years, as I because we were trying to figure out which country we wanted to make a permanent home in, we moved from Canada to the UK, and then a few years later, took him with us by plane again, this time to Portugal, and in that time did not want to look ...
“My Old Cat Hates New Kitten, But I Love Both! Can You Help?” Yes!!
I got an ever so lovely email from a reader named Cindy who not too long ago stumbled across my blog posts about getting two cats to get along. She's herself in this situation and asked for some more help if I had any to offer her for her particular case. The TLDR (i.e. "too long didn't read") version of her thorough message to me is the following summary: She's newly adopted a kitten, ...
I Don’t Think Most People Realize How Sweet Cats Can Be…
Back in August, our friends brought over their two kids to meet our three cats. Of the two kids, one was a boy who was used to the idea that cats could be cool pets, but hadn't had any experience with them, and a girl who was really scared that cats would scratch and hurt her. Now, our three cats our giant softies. They're what I call "old man cats" because they're so stinkin' lazy for the ...
“Why Does My Cat Meow Before Drinking Water?” 7 Reasons, Some Serious
I'm going to start off by saying that unlike most weird cat behaviours, which I've written about extensively on this blog, this particular strange cat behaviour has a lot of different explanations behind it. Most behaviours have maybe 3-4 explanations tops. But meowing before drinking water - to me - has a lot more variance to it and hopefully you will be able to figure out why your cat does it ...
“My Cat Screams When I Shower: Why?!” The Consensus Is…
I've seen a number of posts in my days browsing Reddit about how their cats will scream, yell, cry (and for the less dramatic of us) meow at them while they are in the shower. The general trend seems to continue on far past a few days. It seems like cats that do this do it every time you shower or nearly every time, and it definitely is a common enough behaviour for it to be considered a "cat ...
“Are Three Cats Too Many?” For Me, 3 Is Probably Perfect Number
I've had a lot more cats go through my house at one time than I ever expected to. I've gone through the vast majority of the years I've spent with cats having just one, then at some points, I've had 5 that I've been taking care of at once, plus an additional two under my roof in my basement, because my brother moved in with us for a number of months and had two cats of his own. So that's a ...