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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

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Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology & Training Feline superiority complex: 1 of 9

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 perfec...
Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology & Training Why cats are difficult to train: 1 of 8

Many cat lovers will tell you that part of the attraction of cats is their independent nature. Dogs will pretty much adore anyone who pats them on the head in a friendly fashion, while most cats are much more choosy in who they bestow their adoring gaze on. This independence also means that they make their own decisions on w...
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) True gardening stories: Me vs. the family pet, a battle of wills: 2 of 9

We have modest front and back gardens, lovingly designed and planted from scratch over the last three years, a combination of lawn and beds round the edge with a mixture of shrubs that flower at various times of year and a peppering of perennials, the soil blanketed in bark chip to minimise the weeding chores. Well, I like i...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Science fiction: 61 of 270

AFTERTASTE Saya Saya sat out in the garden, the cool evening breeze smelling of lavender, stroking her cheeks and lifting the hairs on her bare arms. This is it, I'm really leaving, going Downside. She absently pushed a strand of her long brown hair back behind her ear and thrust the thought aside. Now she was going to enjoy...
Pets & Animals > Cat Care & Health What you should know about declawing your cat: 9 of 21

Cats are independent, territorial and instinctive predators - the fact that they look cute and fluffy and meow up at us in that endearing way should not fool anyone. They use their claws for all manner of behaviours that are quintessentially 'cat', for example, climbing, catching prey, signalling ownership of their territory...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Cat behavior: 59 of 121

Our two cats started life as feral kittens in a barn, and right from the start they've rewarded us with antics. That first day, we brought them home and opened the cat box door, but no way were they coming out into this new and scary world, no matter what titbits we tempted them with. So we left them to it and went through i...
Health & Fitness > Sleep Disorders Is snoring a problem?: 8 of 16

Snoring is one of those things that is constantly joked about, but it's no joke when you're awake at four in the morning listening to the rumbles, snorts, starts and occasional stops of partner in full flow. Sometimes a bit of gentle nudging will encourage the offender to turn on their side, but how long they'll stay there i...
Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology & Training Cat facts: Cats and their sleep habits: 8 of 11

Cats of all shapes and sizes like their sleep, ranging from lions lounging about under the shade of a handy tree on the savanna during the heat of the day to the domestic moggie curled up in their favorite place - normally your favorite chair. It is an instinctive thing, born from generations conserving precious energy in be...
Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology & Training How to keep cats out of houseplants: 3 of 4

Our two cats don't so much chew my houseplants as splat and disembowel them. When they first arrived and had settled in enough to be getting adventurous about the house, they took great pleasure in playing hide and seek behind the plants, and when the hider was found, having mock battles through the foliage that generally en...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Soldier tales: 69 of 85

HOMECOMING Jeff drank in his surroundings as the bus made its way through leafy winding lanes dappled with golden sunshine speckles shifting in the breeze. He glimpsed the small, ploughed, sandy fields through gaps in the high granite-walled banks and scrambling brambles and half listened with a contented smile to the old me...