Category: Cat

So if you’ve been following me for a while you know I live in Baltimore City and that there’s a rat problem in the neighborhood. It’s a city. It happens. I don’t want to use poison or lethal traps on the rats (partly because that will never do any good unless everyone on the street [...]

I picked my cat’s ashes up from the vet today.  Brought her home. Put her box-shaped container under the urn that contains one of my other cats. I really regret that I didn’t have this done for Sa’am when I had to have him put down. The situation was overwhelming. It was the first time [...]

Rita the cat would never go upstairs. Kitti thought it was because she was weird or lazy. I kept telling him it’s because if she tried Anime would appear from nowhere and chase her back down. See, as soon as we got the dog, Anime decided the upstairs was her domain and no one was [...]

The alarm went off at 7am. I heard The Roommate moving around. He went downstairs and I heard the back door open. Today was trash day, so it was easy to guess he was taking out his trash. About five minutes later there was a knock on the bedroom door. The Roommate. “It’s Anime,” he [...]

One of my neighbors has set up a cat house. No, not that kind. The feline version of a dog house. It’s small and sits on their front porch and there’s a neighborhood cat that lives there full-time. I don’t know if the people like cats but can’t have one (allergies, landlord rules, whatever) or [...]

Kitti, the partner-in-crime, is convinced I have some sort of power over cats. Cats generally seem to like me. The strays in our neighborhood will basically swarm to me. So today, at the risk of sounding insane, I talked to one of the cats about the rats in our yard. “Look, I don’t know if [...]

Kitti thinks it’s significant that the Ghost Cat walked in unasked and started making himself at home. I really don’t know if I’m ready for another cat, especially one that looks so much like Robin. It is a sweet cat and he does seem pretty insistent on moving in, though. But the vet bills! The [...]

Tonight I took the dog out to the back yard for a pee. I was standing in the kitchen and was about to call him back in when a fluffy black cat walked in and started eating out of the food bowl closest to the back door — Robin’s usual feeding spot. The dog came [...]

I miss Robin already. Yesterday morning, very early, Kitti, Steeb-the-Roommate, and I went to the vet with Robin. When we took him in he was having trouble walking and was wheezing a lot. The vet suspects the tumor that caused his hyperthyroidism spread to his lungs (and possibly further) so it was clearly the right [...]