Songs for Cats
It’s no secret that my wife and I are crazy about cats. We’ve fostered dozens of kittens and adult cats over the years. We currently belong to three (formerly) male cats who were all once […]
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ALL Cats Are Dominant
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. Bill Spencer is author of Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally […]
A CAT NAMED HARMONY
Living with a cat is a battle of wits. This is true of any cat. All cats are smart, but some are kitty geniuses. One of those is the cat who lives with me, Harmony. […]
Reigning Cats and Dogs
The Ancient Egyptians created all sort of hybrid gods way before we even engaged in genetic splicing. But all we did with that science was to make genetically-modified tomatoes and the like. Anyway the long-ago […]
My Cat Zippy’s Tell-All Book
In these contentious times, it seems like every week there’s another tell-all book promising to reveal shocking secrets of sordid behavior by a politician or celebrity. Being neither a politician nor celebrity, I was taken […]
Our Cat Midas Welby
Our cat Welby—the world’s best cat ever—lived with us for the last 9 years of her life, and the happiest moment for us in all that time was when she peed a big puddle on […]
Harmony the Cat’s Simple Rules of Human Behavior
1. The human shall get up out of bed at whatever obscenely early hour the cat decides he/she is hungry. There are no exceptions. 2. The human shall not put the cat on a diet. […]
What Did I Learn at the Last Zoom Meeting?
The library I work for is closed and all of us are working from home. So what did I learn from the library-system-wide Zoom meeting I was recently required to attend? Well, I now know […]
Quiz: Sex in the City Quote or Stuff I’m Sure My Cat is Thinking While I’m Asking ‘So, Who’s the Pretty Girl?
Quiz: Sex in the City Quote or Stuff I’m Sure My Cat is Thinking While I’m Asking ‘So, Who’s the Pretty Girl? I don’t believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I […]
Your Cat Doesn’t Belong on the Dining Room Table — But There He Is Anyway
(Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash) I’m eating at my friend Amy’s house when one of her cats leaps up onto the dining room table and begins sauntering across its surface, heading toward my […]