Make it easy on yourself?

Following on from the “inconvenient convenience” blog in October last year, I started thinking about products marketed to make our lives easier as carers of feline charges that may in fact be causing issues for them to coexist as happily…

Got cat class....

If you’re a regular social media user – as most people are – you’re likely to have seen the news by now that Ikea are extending their “pet care” range. Obviously, this meant I had to have a look on the site…

Housework with a feline family sucks.....

I recently had the good fortune to be allowed to make use of a vacuum cleaner that I’ve been impressed by the concept of for some time, and it didn’t disappoint me. The GTech Air Ram K9 Mk2 if you…

New Year, Fresh Start

This time of year, my own home and the newsfeed of a certain social media site I use is full of pictures of felines being rather spoiled by their humans. It makes me happy to see the way cats are…

There’s no such thing as a free cat

I was on a “for sale” page on a popular social media site recently, and happened across a post that began “cat, free to good home.” This statement has always instilled concern in me for a couple of reasons. The…

Living in style with cats

  Something that I noticed when I first started sharing my home with cats was that the items that were on sale tended to give little thought to the aesthetics of a home. Scratch posts were all low quality looking…

An inconvenient convenience

I was browsing an online marketplace a few days ago and came across a product that has been designed to ensure a cat has access to dry food and water in a convenient and aesthetically ordered way. It looks like…

Cats as heroes against the dark forces.

At this time of year, black cat costumes and figures are overflowing from every pound shop in the UK. Halloween is a timely reminder of how cats have been perceived as associated with the more “sinister” side of life such…

When I first started sharing my home with cats, they had always lived in close proximity to humans. They were surrendered to a rescue, the last of a litter, or their owner could no longer care for them. So my…

Feline Cuisine - a useful food review

Before the festive season I was contacted by a representative of a U.S site called Reviews.com making me aware of their findings on the important topic of the best cat foods available to ensure optimum nutritional requirements are met, among…