: About Me

After long years of related studies, including a PhD, I now work in animal health and welfare, where I always wanted to be. I relax by pottering in our small but perfectly formed garden (well, I'm biased), playing with our two mad cats, escaping to the Scottish hills in a tent, or reading, often science fiction. I'm also attempting to widen my writing skills, including remembering how to write stories, something that I always used to enjoy in English classes way back in the mists of time.....

My passion is ...

Animal welfare

I know too much about ...

How food is produced

My parents always told me ...

Do your best

My childhood ambition ...

To be an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

Playing on my Grandparents farm in the summer holidays

Why I write ...

Because I enjoy it and to spread a little understanding

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dr Who

My first job ...

Cafe/shop assistant on a campsite in Jersey

My best moment ...

Buying our first house

My inspiration ...

Imagination

Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology & Training Feline superiority complex

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There is no such thing as a feline superiority complex - cats are much more straightforward creatures; they simply have their own needs, wants, and opinions. Just like the rest of us, they need food, shelter from the elements, a safe territory and preferably somewhere clean and non-smelly to go to the toilet. They are perfectly capable of acquiring these things independently of we humans, as evidenced by the countless feral cats around the world. While many cats enjoy our company enough to become a more or less permanent part of our lives, they make this choice on their own terms - this in...

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