A Michael Broad Blog
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Cocoa in the linen hutch This is how Cocoa sleeps My poor rescued cat Cocoa is toothless and declawed! Readers, I hope I can write this without breaking anything nearby or having another crying fit. Please start by reading yesterdays story here. 25th April 2011: Urgent Notice: Cocoa will not …
Cats in Poetry by Michael (London, UK) Photo by Taking5 (Flickr) see poem in the first comment. Cats in Poetry goes back a long, long way. It tells us a bit about how people related to the domestic cat centuries before there were purebred cats. Purebred cats are a modern idea. For nine thousand …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Scrappy-Kitten killer Cassie-birth defect Furby-walks funny Cats killing kittens is a more complicated topic than many of us have been led to believe. I’m sure if you’re approaching middle age (as many of us are) then you’ve probably heard the warnings about keeping kittens out of reach of adult male …
I have a brown spotted tabby female born 4/3/02 whose tail was broken running across the street. She had a fairly large separation at the S1 vertebrae. She can run and jump normally and appears to feel no pain but after about 4 months of hoping and waiting, she still has no control of …
by Michael (London, UK) Why is my cat sleeping in the litter box? I have personal experience of this….er no it’s not me sleeping in the litter.. I have seen it happen on two distinctly different occasions. However, the underlying conditions were the same: anxiety caused by the presence of unknown cats and/or a …
A cat litter poll should be useful. A lot is said on the internet about cat litter and cat litter boxes. What is best? What is important for us and/or our cat? It can often depend on where we live. If we live in a city, we might be in an apartment. We might …
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by Michael (London, UK) Sadly the word “cat-house” is slang for a house of prostitution, a brothel. This adds a complication to the work of writing about cat house designs. For instance people search for the “Nevada Cat House”! I thought this might refer to a really nice, architecturally designed detached house in the …
