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First, a little history. "Sky" landed at our nearby shelter as a six and half year old spayed female, following the death of her former caretaker. She spent a month there -- grumpy, depressed and hiding in the back of her cage. MommyCat and I couldn't stand to see her like that any more, so we...

A few lucky pictures from years ago. Dubya the orange/white male and Jewel the solid white girl became buddies, and possibly more! Here they are enjoying a piece of cat furniture together: For a moment they were distracted by something going on outside our patio window. This has been one of...

I thought I'd resume posting here after a long absence, punctuated with occasional lurking. In the past five years, MommyCat and I have changed jobs/careers respectively, moved to a fixer-upper home in a very pet-friendly area and adopted several more cats, all of whom are the joy of our lives...

I'd like to share some examples of custom cat furniture I've built for my gang. I really don't have the skills or equipment to do serious woodworking, but my cats seem to appreciate these basic things anyway. First, we have plenty of cats and that means plenty of litter boxes. MommyCat and I...

I caught my Basia in mid-yawn while she sits on my computer monitor...

My wife and I adopted our first cat in October 2000. Basia (BAH-sha) was known as "Tiny" at the local Humane Society shelter because she was such a little squeaky thing. She was the only survivor of a coyote attack that claimed her mother and littermates. She's a Van-pattern American Shorthair...