Since last year when we needed to keep Rosie indoors for her treatment (and later, also Daffodil), we fixed the green netting to our bedroom and adjoining bathroom windows. This was effective in keeping Rosie and Daffodil indoors, but not in keeping Zurik out. For the downstairs living room, we installed the stainless steel mosquito…

Indy does the craziest stunts.  He’s a real character to contend with. I have noticed for the longest time that he wants to do whatever I do. Trying to use the computer. It’s been a few times that he created havoc on my laptop by stepping all over and altering some key functions of my…

From yesterday afternoon until quite late last night, Ginger was sleeping in the open cage. Whenever he goes into that open cage, it means he isn’t feeling well. This brings me back to almost 7 years ago when Ginger first came to our house. He had been injured by Mr Quack in a fight and…

With so much focus on Vincent lately, I haven’t been writing much about the rest of the cats. Ginger, Tabs and Heidi get some “press time” because they live in the house with Vincent, so their stories overlap. Of course, Zurik gets quite a bit of press time as well (due to his fights). Cow…

Today, Vincent only ate twice.  Once, at 6.30am and the second meal was just now, at 5.15pm.  At noon, when everyone else came, he also came to the kitchen, but there was only the staring game (he staring at each option that I offered and not eating anything).  I didn’t want to force-feed him at…

I took the vet’s advice and let Vincent play his staring game. The vet was absolutely correct in saying that cats are just “gods of another religion” (!!) and it’s sometimes futile for us to try to understand them, especially from our limited human perspective. How would we know what they want, right? By 4pm,…