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Had a PM from a new TCS member today; they need to know how to start a new thread when using a tablet to post to TCS. Since I don't use a tablet, I figured I'd ask here and see if anyone else knew.

I'm cat-sitting for some friends while they search for an apartment. Their kitten is staying at my place and integrated with my cats in only four days. (She's a junior diplomat, that one.) Zuzu is a small, slender tabby and white DSH; her owners haven't yet had the 9-month-old kitten spayed...

So you guys know Tiny. He's my lovey cat, he understands me and I understand him. He's a tamed feral. I adopted him when he was 9 months old. He's shy around other humans, but he likes me well enough. I didn't have any huge problems integrating Tiny with Christy; there was some hissing at...

We're all aware that our cats don't live as long as we usually do, and most of the time we just think of it as something sad. But lately I've been thinking that there's more to it than the sadness of saying goodbye when a cat is old and you're not. Cats grow up faster, age faster, live faster...

Ah, the Catloaf, an art form perfected only by the feline species. The classic catloaf, in which a cat sits with all paws tucked neatly under the body, is so named because the cat takes on a striking resemblance to a loaf of bread. Some cats stick one paw out, determined to put their own...

OK, so last January I got bronchitis, and my immune system apparently never got the idea that I'm better now. I kept coughing until my doctor realized I had gotten asthma. No, I didn't know it could happen, either. Anyhow, I've been advised to reduce the allergens in my environment. I've...

My cats are smart. They are inquisitive. And they are easily bored. Lately I have been teaching them how to do things. I taught Tiny to come up on my bed when I call him, and taught Christy to play a game where I hold something up and say "Knock it down!" and she knocks it down. They both play...

Maunzi was my mother's cat. I only met her once, when I went to visit. She had claimed the guest room I stayed in, and she was just aggravated at me for taking her territory! I think that if I had had more time, she might have decided to make peace, but what's done is done and anyway, I *did*...

You may have heard of the mirror test. It's an experiment designed to find out if an animal has an idea of what "me" is, by using the animal's ability to identify its own image in a mirror. The basic idea is that you let the animal play with the mirror for a while until it knows what the mirror...

Posted on my blog. Advice and constructive criticism welcome; I am good at essays but still new to fiction writing.

This is for my friend's dog. I don't have permission to name my friend or her dog online, so I'll just call the dog "Belle", because of how beautiful she was. Her beauty wasn't physical. She was a rescue dog, a big mutt that stood as high as your knee, some combination of bulldog with short...

My cats and I do, that is. I have an ~8-year-old female (shy, inquisitive, gentle) and a ~4-year-old male (boisterous, tense, perceptive). And lately it seems we've all been bored. Seems like there's nothing new to do--either me with the cats, or them with anything in the apartment. We've...

Christy likes to watch me crochet. And paw at the yarn. And lie on the blankets. And in the blankets. Right now, she and a half-finished winter hat are lying on my lap. In my house, most of the blankets have cat hair on them long before they're even finished! A finished afghan lies draped...

I know we have some really good photographers here--people capable of catching a cat in mid-air, leaping after a toy, or wrestling with a buddy, or in mid-jump. Well, I wanna see those photos! Almost all of my photos of my cats are of them sitting still, which totally makes it look like they're...

Lately my two cats have been getting mischievous. Tiny's been chasing Christy, and Christy's been getting her little paws into everything. And Tiny has learned that he can my attention by scratching the wrong objects... so he deliberately scratches them, not because he likes them but because he...

I crochet. A lot. Like, two afghans a month. It's mostly to keep my hands busy while I study, because otherwise I fidget like crazy, and I'd prefer my fidgeting to be productive. Helps me think. I can do it by touch. Nothing complex, not like what some of you guys are doing... I forget who, but...

The other day I was coming home from shopping, dragging my grocery cart, when I saw a tiny black kitten under a car. It was maybe six to eight weeks old, and I had no idea if it was feral or somebody's lost pet; so I called softly, hoping that it would trust me enough to come out. It didn't. It...

I recently wrote a blog post about how I talk to my cats, and thought maybe you guys would like to chime in on it. Has anybody else invented a kitty language, like my cats and I have?

My cat Tiny has had issues with his paws for the last two years now. Every winter, he would get dry skin on his paw pads, and I'd switch to litter without baking soda and put on a humidifier; and that seemed to do the trick. (I think baking soda dried out his skin when he dug in the litter...

You ever get a photo of your cat just hamming it up for the camera, absolutely sure of how cute or beautiful or handsome they are? I present Exhibit A, Christy sitting on her cardboard scratch pad, queen of the house... And Exhibit B, Tiny being the clown he is and showing off his cuteness...