Category Archives: About Cats

This morning, I woke up to no Internet. It could be that our modem thingy needs to be reset—I don’t know and I won’t know until the computer expert in the house wakes up. In the meantime, I’m not a … Continue reading →

Chicago is known as the rattiest city in the country. Some businesses and neighborhoods are simply overrun with gnawing, disease-spreading rats. Evidently, this problem is beyond the capability of professional pest control and many business owners and home owners have … Continue reading →

How daring is your cat? Does he have access to the great out-of-doors? Does he disappear for hours at a time only to return with a lizard gift for you or smelling of mint or jasmine or something funky like … Continue reading →

People wonder how I came up with the idea for the star cat in my Klepto Cat Mystery series. You see, Rags, a part-Ragdoll cat, who doesn’t look a thing like a Ragdoll, steals things and sometimes the things he … Continue reading →

Are you interested in what kind of pets celebrities and other celebrated people are attracted to? Martha Stewart is often photographed with a couple of white Samoyeds and Himalayan cats. Former President Franklin Roosevelt was known for his Scottie and … Continue reading →

We’ve talked before about the secrets roaming cats keep from us and how interesting it would be to put a camera on them and find out where they go every day and what they do. Guess what, someone has done … Continue reading →

Huh? Hate our cats? No way. Well, maybe we do get a bit aggravated with them at times…like when they don’t follow the household rules. For example, we want nice furniture and they—well, you know what they do to it. … Continue reading →

I think that most dedicated cat people will agree that cats are every bit as smart as dogs—maybe even smarter. But they use their intelligence or thinking abilities in a very different way. There’s a new study out that says … Continue reading →