How To Tell If Your Cat Is “Normal”

How To Tell If Your Cat Is “Normal”

A Completely Unscientific but Useful Set of Questions to Consider “I think there is something wrong with Max,” I said in a playful tone so my wife would know I was not serious. “Watch this.” I rubbed the thumb of my right hand against the first and second fingers...
Sleeping with Dogs and Cats

Sleeping with Dogs and Cats

Where our pets sleep can be a troublesome topic “Earthquake!” The bed was shaking. Startled out of a deep sleep, I opened my eyes. There was a dark mass just inches from my face. As my ability to focus awakened, I realized the mass was a head. A dog head. The...
Hairballs and other things that go splat in the night

Hairballs and other things that go splat in the night

The Not-So-Glamorous Parts of Pet Parenthood Is there anything worse than stepping in a wet hairball in the middle of the night? Okay, yes, surely there are many things worse than that: death, taxes, sitting in a McDonald’s drive-through line for 20 minutes only...
Does Healing Touch for Animals Work?

Does Healing Touch for Animals Work?

Photo by Kenan Kitchen on Unsplash My Experience with a 3-Day Workshop Have you ever wished you could help your pets simply by touching them? It turns out that you can. Have you ever heard of Healing Touch? It’s a holistic energy-based healing...
How I Was Played By My Pup’s Bio-Parents

How I Was Played By My Pup’s Bio-Parents

Meeting the Rottweiler Parents The day you pick out your new dog, or she picks you, is one you never forget. As it turns out, meeting your dog’s parents can be equally memorable. I got my first dog as an adult when I was in my mid-20s. After having fallen instantly in...
Are You Brushing Your Cat Right?

Are You Brushing Your Cat Right?

How do you brush a cat? No, this isn’t one of those jokes like “how do you bathe a cat” that has been going around for years. If it was, I would just write, “very carefully” and be done with it. I think there is an art to brushing a cat. Just ask our cats. We have two...