Perhaps the most important moment in cat caregiving is before you start. It’s asking yourself a range of tough questions to check whether you are in a position to do justice to caring for a domestic cat companion. It is tough because instinctively you want to adopt a cat or a dog. Perhaps you’ve …
The Infographic is really about my preferences which might not square up with yours. But whether you disagree or agree with my selection, I don’t think that you can disagree with my logic. There are many competing influences when deciding what type of cat to adopt. But common-sense dictates that before you even get …
The title is self-explanatory. The topic lends itself to an infographic as these are bullet point reminders. Some are obvious and some less so. Perhaps the most important part of cat adoption is before it takes place. The preparation. The budgeting, the research, the honesty is assessing whether one is genuinely in a position …
There are too many opportunities for the seller of a purebred cat to scam the buyer. Sometimes buyers purchase a purebred cat remotely, online. They don’t see the cat that they are buying in person but through a photograph. The seller might promise this and that. There is often no written contract. The seller …
You are looking for a questionnaire or a quiz which points you in the right direction as to the kind of cat breed that is suited to you and your lifestyle? They don’t work. I am going to be very, very boring and say that it is pretty pointless to try and decide on …
NEWS AND COMMENT: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, USA: It is sad to learn that people in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) sometimes buy cats and dogs with a high interest loan. I can understand why. They want to adopt a cat or dog and they want that animal to be purebred and good-looking. But the …
This is extraordinary. It is also a con and treating companion animals as cars or some other factory made ‘product’. It is about buying a pet on what in the UK we call “hire-purchase” – a form of leasing. It is the way you buy cars. I had no idea that you could lease …
I know it is not Christmas but we’ll start counting down the days in several months time! Well, that applies to the UK but I realise that in the USA Thanksgiving is probably bigger. Whatever, the point is that the holiday season is a time for presents. Parents have a habit of buying a …
