Is Your Cat’s Purring A SuperNatural Healing Sound Vibration? Huh?

Those of you who have had feline roommates know that cats only do a few things, and those things usually aren’t for your benefit.  Sometimes they bring you grisly surprises – some poor mouse’s delicately furred pants, or a rat sized squirrel mask – but they are never the type of surprises that can be [...]

How To Toilet Train Your Cat

1.  Choose your least frequented bathroom, and move the cat box next to the toilet.
2.  Order a Litter Kwitter.  This step is not required – there is information out there about how to do this using mixing bowls and other household items.  There are also other brands of these toilet training devices, but this one [...]

Is Your Cat A Good Candidate For Toilet Training?

Some cats adjust very quickly to using the toilet.  Other cats, not so much.  I researched this topic while deciding whether to train my cat.  I found that the general sentiment (among those who don’t consider cat training to be an oxymoron) is that it’s individual to each cat and you just have to try [...]

Against Cat Boxes? Us too

Who doesn’t hate cat boxes?  No one.  I dare anyone who enjoys the daily kitty roca delivery to come forward now.
“But we shouldn’t worry about things we can’t control!” your sensible side says, “we can’t let our profound hatred of cat boxes control us.”  In fact, you can control the loathsome cat box situation.  You [...]

How to Offend Your Local Marsupial

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Humans, Guinea Pigs, Primates, and Fruit Bats are the only mammals unable to produce vitamin C naturally, and must therefore get it through diet. In fact, since a vitamin is defined as something that is required by the body but not produced within it, vitamin C is a rather inaccurate (perhaps even offensive?) [...]

Osteoarthritis and Your Pet: Stiff Dog Getting You Down?

Do you have a stiff dog?  I do.  Or at least, I recently had a stiff dog roommate.  By all accounts the best dog in the west, Toobis – a pitador – has become slightly old the last couple of years.  While sometimes it is difficult to tell whether his reluctance to leap into the [...]

So? What’s Your Pet’s Name?

WOW. Just Wow.

I’ve been tweeting for years now. And I’ve never go to so many replies so quickly. I simply asked the above question in the title about what your pets are: http://twitter.com/journik/statuses/5807389169
You are one passionate lot!

I was going to do a blog post on the joys and challenges of owning a pet FOR KIDS

I [...]

How to Help Your Anxious Dog

Do you cause your dog anxiety?  Probably.  Let’s face it – human beings can be an anxious bunch.  We are unruly, inconsistent, and sometimes extremely unaware.  And who has to deal with it without a word of complaint?  Pets.  Now, if you have an issue free pet feel free to skip straight to posting pet [...]