When you go to the vet and there is nowhere to hide, sometimes someone lets you sit in the sink and gives you a blankie to cover yourself. P...

Bet you didn't know I had a bodyguard! Not that I need one or anything, but I certainly have one, at least at home. He precedes me down ...

No, I don't sleep with my glasses on.  But I do need them to take a picture! Emmett loves me.  I know this.  He has turned out to be...

No, not the food - Meatloaf is a cat.  He is my foster cat and he is lovely. Even when I used to write regularly, I never had a big reader...

Riley lived a good, long life.  But with the recent diagnosis of bladder cancer and the discomfort it was causing, it was time to say goodb...

.. weighs 10 lbs!!  At the vet tonight the vet tech said - at 20 years old, to be gaining weight like this - just doesn't happen!  Whate...

Riley is 20 now.  He's bony and cranky and sleeps a lot which is probably quite normal for a cat his age. But recently he started losin...

Seems my days have been a blur of opening cans of cat food, pouches, and sometimes unscrewing baby food jars.  Popping pills in the kitty...

Yes, Norah is home.  And man am I tired.  She is wobbly, her back legs are weak and she is on lots of meds.  I slept on the couch last nigh...

Norah has always been the quiet kitty, the somewhat timid and skittish one who didn't demand a lot of attention.  I have to admit the...

. Took Jakie to the vet this evening, and asked them to shave some spots on her sides.  Turns out it's really hard to give a tiny, skin...

..I mean really, wouldn't it be great to be able to stretch out and nap wherever you wanted to - regardless of anything going on around...

Guess who? .

So?  What do you feed your animals??! Don't judge until you've had a cat with an overactive thyroid! .

Sleeps like the dead.  Unless his stomach is growling he doesn't wake up when someone comes in the room or makes normal household noises...

a) neither have been there in years b) neither of them are easy to handle c) either of them thinks a stranger touching them means they shoul...

So crabby old man cat Riley gets thyroid meds in tablet form every day.  Actually it's only a quarter of a tablet, twice a day.  He also...

. Took crabby ol' man Riley cat to the vet for his once weekly "drink".  The technician came and carried him away in his carri...

. He's called the crabby old man cat for a reason.  According to the vet Riley is around 17 years old.  Pretty old for a kitty.  He is t...

. I wanna see what HE'S looking at! .