Recent Content by Caspers Human

Like @Biomehanika says, it's basically the same as the "20-Mule Team" borax that you buy in the grocery store. People have been using it to do laundry and clean things around the house for decades. It won't kill you unless you ingest a lot of it. By a lot, I mean a LOT! A normal, average...

Yes! That reminds me... Do you play with her before going to bed? Sometimes, it helps if you "play her out" at night, before bed. By "play out," I mean to play with her until she's too tired to continue. Cats often need that kind of stimulation. That's why @Alldara suggests having another...

Casper hate-loves to be picked up. If you try to pick him up, he'll try to escape. Then, when you pick him up and pet him, he'll purr. He looks around the room like he's checking out a new vantage point. Then, you have about a half-minute until he starts fidgeting for you to put him down...

Both of our cats come up on the bed while I'm sleeping or trying to go to sleep. My solution is to enforce some rules about bedtime: If the cats want to come to bed, they have to behave. I'll make a spot for them to lay down next to me. I'll pat my hand on the bed, inviting them to come over...

I don't know... Try reverse psychology on him. Tell him to "punish" the cat by completely ignoring her. When she decides to "behave" she can have attention from him. Yes, the usual way to treat a skittish cat is to leave the cat alone until she calms down. In this case, just flip the wording...

Rake the litter box like a Japanese Zen Garden: You'll know, instantly, if your cats have been into the litter box since you were there, last.

Yeah! Good one! He is an abandoned cat. He's also afraid of coyotes. One time, when he heard coyotes, he came up on my lap and cowered. I know he's also into territory marking. He used to make his midden pile right outside our back door. You just might be onto something, there! :)

Water softeners do not put salt into the water. Water softeners use a filter made of ionic resin beads which attract calcium and magnesium ions and hold them inside the filter. Sodium chloride (salt) is used to wash calcium and magnesium out of the resin filter, regenerating it for further...

Elliot likes to lay on the Girl-Human's used tissues! If one falls on the floor, he'll go over, lay on it and stay there for quite a while, "possessing" the tissue, sometimes, for ten or fifteen minutes until he decides to do something else. It is because of her human scent on the tissue? Is...

My first cat was a gray and black over white tabby and his belly was almost all white with only a few spots around the edges. His name was K.C. but I still called him a tiger cat. He could be a real tiger when he wanted to be! ;)

Some tabbies have stripes, some have spots and there are some that have both stripes and spots. Many striped tabbies even have spots on their bellies but that doesn't necessarily mean that a given cat is anything but a domestic tabby cat. None of that matters to me because tabbies are my...

Elliot cut a nasty one just before Casper walked into the room. Casper took one whiff and made the biggest "yuck face" you ever saw then ran out of the room.

Try a bucket trap. Get a large, 5-gallon bucket and a wooden stick. Use the stick to make a ramp that leads up to the rim of the bucket. Put some peanut butter at the top of the ramp then fill the bucket with about six inches of water. Rats will be attracted to the peanut butter. They'll...

Do you know any place that does glass blowing? Maybe a head shop that makes glass water pipes? You could have somebody seal the fur inside glass tubes. That way the fur would be preserved and, as a bonus, it would make sure that nothing infectious could be spread. When our kitties pass on...

Our cat, Elliot has tattered ears. The only way they could have gotten that way would be a fight. Likely with other cats but it could be raccoons, skunks or opossums. He would have been exposed to all sorts of critters in the outdoors. He also had an infected wound on his head when we...