My cat Lucy jumps on my beautiful oak dining room table to watch the birds. What should I do?

Reader Questions: Nancy in Omaha
Dear Nancy,
You are not alone. Many households struggle with the same problem. Here are some suggestions.
First, remove the beautiful heirloom glass vase and stash it away in the closet. Heirloom glass vases do not belong on the same table with a cat. Although cats are extremely careful [...]

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Every Day is a Bad Hair Day

I volunteer at a cat adoption center. Though non-paying, the job has its perks (paid in otherwise non-adoptable cats) and satisfactions (The stitches from Freddie’s bite came out yesterday and the wound is no longer infected.)
I truly enjoy helping people find the perfect cat. “No, Freddie does not normally bite – he’s the [...]

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Saturday Morning, 50% Chance of Rain

It was Saturday morning. I was at the computer applying pale peach nail polish to my fingernails. In the middle of doing that, I had an idea for a story and started writing. Kippy, one of my seven kitties, was lounging on the desk, helping the story along by alternately pushing the [...]

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Twitter Trouble

This past winter a lightning struck a tree in my yard and through my cable modem zipped into my computer. In less time it takes to Twitter “what the …” my hard drive was forever divorced from my motherboard and consequently my motherboard committed suicide by incineration. Luckily my hard drive remained intact [...]

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Kippy a LOLcat Celebrity

I found Kippy when she was a four-week old motherless kitten. Four years later, Kippy is about to become a published celebrity.
She has been chosen to appear in the I Can Has Cheezburger (www.icanhascheezburger.com) book titled I Can Has Cheezburger?: Lolcats Teach U How To Take Over Teh Wurld, due for publication in September, [...]

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Photos to Cherish Forever

My cousin Jill was an aspiring photographer. She’d been aspiring for quite sometime, even winning a Kodak award for a cow (cow’s left eye and left nostril, to be precise) staring into her lens.
For the birth of our daughter she decided to take a bunch of photos of us – mother, father, and new [...]

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Home Office Solutions w/Cat Assist

So you have a home office – and that is your only office. And you commute regularly from your bedroom to the aforementioned office. You don’t even need to get dressed until 8:00 PM when you remember that you haven’t had breakfast yet (not to mention lunch and dinner) and when you open [...]

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Cat Lady in Silly Mood

A cat on the window
A cat on the couch
Either we have two cats
(Which we didn’t at last count)
Or I’m counting one cat twice

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Owning a Cat – an Rx for Health

Before you set out to get a cat, you should be very clear on why you’re getting a feline companion.
Today I’d like to discuss one important reason to get a cat: a health reason.  Studies have shown that petting a cat lowers your blood pressure.  As so many Americans suffer from this silent affliction – [...]

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If you’re a parent to a teenager, watch your cat-related behavior

My cat’s tail was high up in the air, and mine, if it hadn’t been extinct for somewhere between 40,000 and one million years, would have been in the same position. We were both ready to pounce on the green lizard between us. The poor lizard had no idea that its life span [...]

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