I thought I’d set these people straight a few months ago, but here the same culprits have come out with yet another “study”, what’s known as a “derivative study” which uses the data and results of other studies to form its own conclusions. This is not uncommon, but it stands
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The other day I broke the old stoneware water bowl I’ve used in the kitchen for about 20 years. I immediately thought of Cookie and felt a big pang of regret, and even a little flash of anger, for my carelessness at placing it where it could be knocked to
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Why all the fuss about whether or not this rodent sees his shadow? February 2 isn’t “just” Groundhog Day and a holiday made by humans to break up the middle of cold winter season. It’s actually an occurrence in nature that humans have observed and found reason to celebrate long
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The thermometer registered 8 degrees this morning as the sun finally rose on a frosty morning in my neighborhood. And there were fresh feline pawprints in the light dusting of snow across the yard and up the steps to my deck along with prints embedded in the ice underneath. It
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Yes, I really did get a kitten in a box under the Christmas tree when I was a child. The story is not glowingly happy and, in fact, comes with a tissue alert, but led me to the cat who eventually became my “first” kitty, and the rest is history.
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It’s proven in statistics and surveys that, although more cats than dogs are kept as household pets, cats overall get fewer visits to the veterinarian and fewer studies are done on behalf of their physical and emotional health and welfare. This overall lack of treatment also bears out in lower
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Eager for her bowl at each mealtime her humble and reserved personality had other cats served first, but that gave me the opportunity to appreciate the anticipation on her face as I lowered her bowl to the floor in front of her, as if she still couldn’t believe she was
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I don’t insist that everything about me stay neat, because then I’d have to keep it that way. But I do notice when things are out of place, especially when they are consistently out of place…this picnic table bench, for instance, which, every time I’ve looked out in the yard
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Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and my personal creative inspiration Namir was the inspiration for The Creative Cat in January 2009, and while I had been posting articles once in a while for a few months prior to this article it wasn’t until I wrote this essay in
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My original text with this entry: My four girls! It’s Peaches, Cookie, Kelly and Mimi. Usually, it’s just my three seniors, “the Golden Girls”, who eat up on this cabinet because they get special canned food with extra supplements, and the younger ones sidle in and ask if they can
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