The passing of a pet can often be the most profound loss with which any animal-lover could be faced, and, in many cases, can be overwhelmingly alienating as well. The truth is, you never really feel it the way it’s supposed to be felt until it happens to you. In many cases, the pain of […]
Dear Carlos, I just adopted 2 cats January 9th of this year. Chino is aprox 2-3 years old. A purebred shorthaired fawn Manx. & Beau is about the same age, a beautiful grey & white domestic. I bought the cat genie & they took to it immediately. Then 2 weeks later Beau started to rebel, […]
It can be challenging introducing two cats in your household. I have owned what some might consider to be a shocking number of cats. I’ve been cat crazy my whole life but my mother was allergic, so I didn’t have a cat until I moved out at 17. I adopted Spike — still my favorite […]
Dear Carlos, Harley-kitteh and I are moving to a new apartment soon. How can I make the transition easy for her? What’s the easiest way to move her CatGenie without causing a mess? Thank you. Nicole Owner of a CatGenie for 5 years. Hi Nicole + Harley, Moving Harley’s CatGenie is actually easy but be […]
Having trouble choosing a cat name? During my brief and tumultuous experience with art school (I know), I used to volunteer at PAWS Adoption Center in Olde City, Philadelphia, where I gained experience naming cats. I chose to do this instead of socialize with what were probably a group of okay people in retrospect, and […]
Everyone knows about dog affection, but what about cat affection? Everyone who’s ever been in the presence of a dog for more than 30 seconds knows how they reciprocate affection, and you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a dog-owner who stares listlessly out the window wondering to himself, “does Captain Puddles get it? I mean, […]