Before I got introduced to the magic world of normal house cats, I though that cats are just catsI Some people say, cats are false and they try to scratch you whenever you come near them and that this is just how cats are. Presently I live with 5 cats after having had more than…
A cat sings? Well, you might say, maybe in cartoons. Yes, there are some funny ones, but the other day our cat Rosenmund, also called “Mundl” or simply “Red”, for obvious reasons, sang aloud in a way I have never heard a cat sing. The Red Cat’s Morning Song Actually, every morning he exhibits…
You love cats? – so have some more! For many years people saw me as a cat-lover. I had many cats, up to 16 sometimes and so they thought I wouldn’t mind having some more to care for. One day, a distant friend of mine brought me 3 kittens which she had found in Rome,…
The following article is a love letter to Sunnyboy which Mark wrote and published in another website of ours a few months after Sunny’s arrival in our house Early on a chilly morning this November as Heidi and I were crawling into the car, I heard a tiny mew coming from across the street where…
Heavy like a feather: but feathers aren’t heavy, are they? No, you might think, they are light and volatile, but they can be very voluminous when you think about geese down. That’s why I thought of comparing Pallino with a feather because he was white like geese down and voluminous, for sure. He was like a…
When your cat comes home and is limping, how would you react? Are you preoccupied and will you run to the vet immediately? In most cases this might not be necessary and when you have some experience with cats who live outside, then you know that, sometimes, they climb up trees and then have a…
Certainly, “Fat Black” hasn’t always been his name. To the contrary, he has changed his name several times. He was born as one of the five kids of grandma Trixi as the only black one in a litter of red and white kittens. Initially, he was called “Nero”, the Italian equivalent for black. Then, one…
TWOTOES HIDING UNDER A DOOR WATCHING OTHER CATS GO BY When we thought he was a SHE Twotoes was a mild-mannered funny little character who liked to pose for pictures, but starting from the moment we properly identified him as a tomcat Twotoes turned into a pugnacious battler. Here she is moments after a…
Human beings have the tendency to believe that they are victims of what happens to them. There are those who attribute all the things which can go wrong in their lives to a divine plan (and subsequently get angry with God and end up being Atheists). And then there are those who believe that they…
We humans often have a hard time when it comes to emotions. Most of us in the western world were educated to not show our emotions, to suppress them, or better, not have them at all. But we are emotional creatures like all mammals whether we like it or not. Animals don’t have a way…