Animal Kingdom

Last week Oz and I went to his overdue annual check-up, and yesterday Marrakesh and I went to his overdue every-other-year check-up. (Na Ki’o, who goes to a different clinic, went to his check-up, on-time, earlier this year.) We received endless notices about Oz’s need for a check-up, but it wasn’t until I asked after […]

Cat Exchange

I let two cats out the back door and sat down with the computer in my lap (hence, laptop). Since then, I have let two cats back in, one at a time, of course, and removed a stinging insect (I always thought they were wasps, but once I looked them up on the internet and […]

Have Meter, Will Travel

Lynn and I have decided we could be our own road show, only I’m not sure how high the entertainment quotient goes. Lately, it seems, the show we take on the road is our expertise with diabetic cats. Maybe it says something about me, but I have had four cats with diabetes over the decades, […]

Fur is Flying

Today is Haircut Day for Oz, but he’s not looking forward to this as much as everyone else is. Actually, he doesn’t even know yet that it’s haircut day, and once he finds out, he won’t be happy. Ultimately, we’d like to think he will be a happier dog, or at least a cooler one, […]

Tigers and Cats and Lyin’, Oh My

Today is the first, and perhaps only, day in my entire existence that you will hear me say this: I wish I cared more about golf. The title for today’s blog entry would write itself: Tiger Out of the Woods, and I could go on to extol the virtues of perseverance and belief in one’s […]

Marrakesh

Marrakesh has lived with us for nearly two years now, and we still don’t have each other figured out. We were down to a single cat, the ever-helpful Na Ki’o (yesterday I spilled his food, and he did his very best, rushing in to scoop up food with his mouth before I could pick it […]