Posts tagged ‘cat’

Holiday Cat Safety

December 1st, 2009

A Few Precautions

Keeping your cat safe and healthy at all times should be one of your major concerns, and this can be even more difficult around the holidays. There are a number of special considerations you must make for regarding cat safety around the holidays. Your vet can give you more specific instructions, but here [...]

What Breed Is Your Cat?

August 11th, 2009

Cats Rule!

Over the last thousands of years, cats have pretty much handled their breeding themselves.  In the beginning, they were used for one purpose – hunting and killing rodents.  As the years progressed, we began to breed cats more to our liking.  Now days, there are several different breeds of cats – which you can [...]

Your Aging Cat

July 30th, 2009

Health for your Aging Cat
Age is just a number, right? A human who is 60 years old may act like a young adult, while another human the same age may act like he or she is on their deathbed! Believe it or not, cats are the same! Your pet may act like a kitten for [...]

Cat Eye Care

July 28th, 2009

Fundamental  Cat Eye Care

The eyes of your feline friends have often been used on horror films. But if you are a pet owner, you will know that the cat’s stare is really the opposite of what’s being portrayed on films. That is why you have to know the importance of cat eye care.
The “I Love [...]

People have become very germ-phobic especially since the flu pandemic scare of late.  The best advice is nothing new, wash your hands! Although cats can carry diseases and pass them to people, you are not likely to get sick from touching or owning a cat. By following simple health tips, you can be even safe-against [...]

Naming Your Dog or Cat

July 21st, 2009

A Rose by Any Other Name?

One of the first responsibilities a new pet owner has is to give your new cat or dog a name. In some cases he or she comes with a name and then the choice is to keep it or change it.
Pet names can be all over the place! Your can [...]

Cat Food vs People Food?

July 2nd, 2009

When I got my first cat Martin Luther Kitty, I swore that I’d feed him cat food only; no people food which might make him a finicky cat! I believed then, and still do that good quality commercial pet foods provide all the nutrients he would need to have a healthy diet. A lot of [...]

Cat Salad
Cat owners love to see our cats happy. If you have an indoor cat as I do, we give them toys, cat trees to climb on and even tunnels to hide in. We give them good food to thrive on and catnip to get a little nutty with. A few years ago I was [...]

What Are Pets Good For?

March 31st, 2009

Just What The Doctor Ordered!
Today we are more conscious of value than we have been in a long time. People are really thinking about what they eat, buy, watch, listen to and how they spend their time. One of the good things that have come about as a result of the current economic situation is [...]

My Overweight Cat

February 13th, 2009

Dogs are not the only household pet that can have weight problems. I remember when I got my first kitten, a boy tabby; a friend gave me a poster of a really fat cat. I was appalled and swore, never I cried! I had no idea how fast he would grow, and grow, and grow…  [...]