My Avery is baaaaaad with playtime, and he's only gotten worse in recent years. When we first got him, we weren't aware he was still a kitten. He was a stray/feral cat we found and when we took him to the vet's for his first visit, the vet told us he was an adult that had no more growing to do. To our surprise he kept growing and growing. Now he's quite tall - and hella lazy ;) You see, even ...
Top Entry Litter Boxes: What I Considered, Bought, & Still Want
There's really only one real reason to be interested in top entry litter boxes: you don't want to have to deal with so much mess when it comes to litter. Right now, I don't live in the biggest apartment ever. Actually, that's an understatement. I live in a studio flat with my husband and my cat. Both my husband and I work from home, and so when things get messy around here, it's not fun. My cat ...
Why Do People Like Cats? 14 Reasons Behind All the Cat Love
Sounds crazy to me, but there are definitely some people out there who just don't understand why people like cats. They don't get why people have them, why many spend countless hours looking at hundreds upon hundreds of pictures of them - and the videos! Why so many viral videos of cats? Not only are these people not cat people - they don't even get cat people. While I firmly believe that ...
Why Do Cats Purr? 12 Reasons: Some Obvious, Some Not
Even if you've somehow managed to make it through your life never having seen a cat in person, chances are good you'll know - at the bare minimum - two things about cats from even having watched a few videos of them online: cats meow, and cats purr. Those of us who house the remarkable felines in our own homes know just how lovely it feels to hear or pet a cat that's purring. When we pick up our ...
Becoming a Pet Person Doesn’t Take Much Time – Just the Right Pet
My mother was never a pet person. Growing up, I wanted a pet, but never really bothered to ask for one more than a time or two. In my mind, it was pointless. My mom just wasn't into the idea, and so I figured convincing her to get one for the family would just leave her miserable if I ever did succeed. This wasn't my brother's line of thinking. To be completely honest, he'd always wanted a ...
Cat Loves Playing with Yarn & String? 3 Safer Alternatives to Use Instead
Pretty much the only game my cat has consistently been obsessed with over the years is the whole chase-the-yarn style game. I'll pace back and forth across my flat or a designated kitty playtime spot dragging a string-like object behind me, and my cat Avery will watch me for a while, then after some time spent staring, finally dive in and really go for the stringy thing - on a good day, with ...
What Are Your Cats’ Favourite Cat Toys?
Up high on the list of my favourite feelings is the one that I get when I order a cat toy and Avery's actually more interested in the toy than the wrapping paper or the box the cat toy came in. It's a rarity for me, and I could probably count the number of times it's happened in my lifetime on one hand. Picture from post “Nesting” in the Packaging To be completely fair to ...
How to Keep Indoor Cats Happy in Small Apartments
Having moved a bunch of different times with my husband and our pet cat, Avery, I've learned a thing or two, not just about making moves easy on cats, but also about how to make do and keep kitties happy in small spaces. If living in tight quarters with a cat is something you're worried about as it's not something you've done before - don't worry it's actually not as bad as you might think, even ...
Are Indoor Cats Prisoners? Is Keeping a House Cat Cruel?
One year ago, my husband, my cat and I made a cross-continental move from Canada to the UK. Two English-speaking countries not too different in terms of mindset, you might think - not much of a change? While that may be true to some extent, when it comes to the indoor versus outdoor cat debate - from what I've seen, these two countries couldn't be more different. To Canadians, indoor cats are ...