Halle Berry went bald a few months ago and we figured it was a heat thing. Vets say they don’t know why, but a lot of cats — especially black cats — suffer major hair-loss in the summer heat. But now that she’s been off the IAMS for almost 17 days — her hair is [...]
Posts under ‘Wild Things’
Not That There’s Anything Wrong w/It
Who’s Yer Daddy was the wildest of toms, and Greylian was a close second. They were muy, muy macho and too clever for their own damn good. It took years of trying before we were able to catch them. Daddy remained scarce, but once a year he’d show up in front of the house, so [...]
Stay Cool, My Babies!
This room and the dining hall are always ten degrees cooler than the rest of the house, in Summer. Even though it doubles as the family bathroom, they love to hang out here and heckle the birds. They’ll storm the sliding glass doors if a stranger approaches. In our dreams, we’re able to put cat-proof [...]
PAnderson Cooper
We tried every “natural remedy” for mange that we could find. Diatomaceous earth, borax and hydrogen peroxide, you name it. Those treatments did help, a bit, but we were all miserable until we began taking several dips a day in a chlorinated pool. Voila! We’d throw PAnderson into the deep-end and she’d swim to the steps in the shallow end (over and over, again). It was quite the workout for everyone, and worked like a charm. Chlorine might not be the healthiest thing one can use, but it’s better than ivermec.
To the Manor Born
It all began with Fabulous Celebrity SpokesCreature Cindy Crawford. CC never drank water from a bowl or pond or puddle. She was much too genteel for that, and would make a glass of her paw. She was also considered royalty by the others. [Before leaving the original Bad Cat Cottage] CC got to go outside. [...]
(Nest Leaving, and) Another “Tainted Food Crisis?!?”
Fabulous Celebrity SpokesCreature Drew Barrymore finds me endlessly fascinating, and, wherever I go, there she is. Al baño, en la cocina, y au lit. Here, she is trying to memorize the admin id and password for this blog [and I'm throwing a soupçon of Spanish and French into the mix, just to screw with her [...]
2muchcat, Not Enough Kitchen.
What is it about the kitchen? It’s everyone’s favorite room in the house, and, for some inexplicable reason, the hard, plastic dish rack is their favorite place to grab a few winks. Many will sleep on top of glasses and mugs and bowls, often finding a “pillow” in the cutlery. When we do dishes, there’s [...]
Richard Branson: Virgin Visionary
Little Dickie Branson began his career with us as a three-week-old virgin wunderkind. Wild yet regal from birth, he was the child of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Who’s Yer Daddy. Elvira had been abandoned, and, in seeking comfort from new humans, quickly learned to fear us all. It took more than a year [...]
