What affects us affects cats
Karrot came to us as a tiny, but ferocious, ball of teeth and fur. She’d been born on a farm where the cats didn’t have great lives. However, a worker at the farm took pity on these little creatures, bundled them into a bag before anyone else got a chance to see them and …
This is an update on Tootsie, a rescued, polydactyl Maine Coon who has been described as “typey”. That cat breeders’ word means that she looks the way a Maine Coon should look. In other words, Tootsie is a genuine purebred Maine Coon, the salt of the earth American barn cat mouser turned show cat. …
Robin looks like a purebred mix. Howard, the person who cares for these fine looking cats, asked if Robin was a Turkish Angora mix. You can’t tell except to say that he is a very attractive cat that, for me, looks more like a Norwegian Forest Cat mix because of the shape of his …
No you wouldn’t, not if your cat had helped to change your life – turned your life around. Not at all, not ever, for many people. Some people would jump at the chance. Not all cats are worth a million pounds. Some cats are priceless. Would you sell a family member? A best friend. …
by Elisa Black-Taylor Free cats. We see these words everywhere these days. People advertise cats on Craigslist and in the freebies section of the newspaper. Not only is this dangerous for the cats, it’s also misleading to those wanting to adopt a cat. For one thing, free cats aren’t really free. They come with …
It is my belief that some doctors can tend to find easy and formulaic solutions to health problems. In the case of children mental health problems that can mean drugs. There has been a quite startling increase in prescriptions for drugs that calm hyperactive children, particularly boys. This feels wrong to me. The classic …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Jasper doing what he does best I was inspired to write about Jasper the napping cat after reading Ruth’s stories on her cat Jozef. There are times I really wish I were a cat. Especially one named Jasper. Jasper came out of our first rescue back in November of 2010. …
by Ruth (England) Three years ago today our beautiful cat Ebony Rose died, just before her seventeenth birthday. She came to us from Cats Protection as a tiny kitten about 7 weeks old. We already had 2 boyz at that time, both rescue cats. Felix was 8 years old and Bryan just 6 months …
