Recent Content by Caspers Human

Ninja cat! :D

No reasonable person should apply undiluted bleach directly onto a dirty litter box without scrubbing with soap and water then rinsing clean, first. I thought my instructions were clear but I can spell it out: Physically remove all waste and cat litter from the box and dispose of it in the...

I looked at the ingredients list: It is water based and I don't see any troublesome ingredients. They seem to be similar to the ingredients of a Sharpie marking pen. In fact, they look a little bit better than Sharpies. If a cat licks or chews its nails they might ingest some of the marker...

Casper! Have you been playing in the fish bowl, again? It wasn't me! Why do you have water dripping from your chin?

Ya' gotta' do what ya' gotta' do! Right? ;) Nice job! Here's hoping things will get easier as the two of you get to develop an agreement between you. Okay, cat! We've gotta' do this thing and I ain't takin' no fluff out of you! I don't like doing this any more than you do so let's just...

You might already know that cats don't normally meow on their own. Kittens meow to call for their mother but adults, if left to their own devices, don't meow much, at all, unless they are in distress. Meowing is a learned behavior/response to get attention from their humans. There is no...

The toxic level of borax is approximately 1 gram per kilogram of body weight. It would take approximately 4.5 grams of borax to make a cat sick. That's about a teaspoon's worth. The amount of borax that one would apply, let dry then wipe away the residue is much less than that. Besides, the...

Clean the litter box with soap and water then disinfect using Clorox bleach mixed at 1 cup to 1 gallon of hot water. Rinse really well using clear water then let the box dry, completely. Next, mix "Twenty Mule Team Borax" in hot water until you can't dissolve any more. (i.e. Make a saturated...

Not long after we adopted him, our cat, Casper, got out. He slipped out the door while his Girl-Human was coming back in from getting the mail or something. It was cold and snowy, outside. The cat got about two feet past the front stoop, stopped to look around and noticed the weather...

Our cat, Casper, is afraid of shoes. I don't know where he got it. One day, shortly after we adopted Casper, I sat down on a kitchen stool to take off my shoes after coming home from work. Casper came in to greet me. When I took off my shoe, he bolted and ran away. At first, I thought he...

Try to figure out what you did to encourage that and do it some more. A little head scratch is just inches away from a scratch behind the ears and that's just inches away from actually touching her ears. If you can do that, it should be fairly easy to quickly dab on a little shmoo.

We keep a small pet shelter outside our back door just for the purpose. It's just one of those cheap, plastic things you buy from Walmart but it serves its purpose. If, ever, one of our cats gets out they have a place to go and hide out until one of us humans can bring them back in. We keep...

She's definitely got a look about her that seems to say, "I'm not sure if I'm supposed to like this or not..."

When my father was breeding dogs he used to use hospital arm bands as collars for the puppies. When a buyer came and wanted to leave a deposit for a certain dog, they would write the person's name on the collar in permanent marker. You could use Tyvek arm bands like that and, instead of the...

It's part of the reason why people think that cats can see in the dark. Cats can certainly see in the dark better than humans but, no creature's eyes can see when it's "dark-dark," with no light at all. However, the vibrissae, all over the cat's body give it the ability to sense things that...