Boston can be a cruel city, and not just because of the weather, although it is forty degrees, windy and raining right now. It is an expensive place to live and eat, the drivers are daunting, and everyone always seems to be in a hurry. A year ago I spend three anxious days here… Continue reading Taking Back The Cat
Category: Cat Stories
A Brief News Update From the Animal House
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have quite a little menagerie here. In my animal loving prime, when I had a lot more energy than I do now, we had 5 Scottish deerhounds, one Brussels Griffon, two cats, two guinea pigs and eight horses, at least one of… Continue reading A Brief News Update From the Animal House
An Exercise in Futility
I am working at home today. And no, that’s not the exercise in futility, although it could be. I have paperwork to complete, treatment summaries to write– odds and ends that don’t involve patient care. I am working at home because today, the carpet layers are putting in my brand new wall to wall carpet. … Continue reading An Exercise in Futility
The Ninth Life
They say that cats have nine lives. If ever that saying was true, it applies to our Timmy Tom who started his ninth today. Thomas will be eighteen years old in September, and a week ago I thought he was a goner. In truth, when I look back, his eighth life started about a year… Continue reading The Ninth Life
All Creatures Great and Small
“He prayeth best who loveth best, all things great and small. For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge A guest blog, tonight, from my friend Jackie Widen. I find I really don’t like people who don’t love animals. There, I said it. … Continue reading All Creatures Great and Small
Get A Cat
I have to admit it—I never liked cats. Actually, to be more accurate, they never liked me. Where dogs would always drool and fawn, the cats I knew as a child were reserved and aloof, and heaven forbid you should touch them in the wrong place. The reward could be bite marks and a row… Continue reading Get A Cat