Stories, opinions,
and feline testimony.

and what the hell you did to earn it… People like to believe they choose their cats. This is adorable. We visit the shelter, meet a litter, answer an online listing, or find a tiny feline squatter screaming beneath the porch. We sign the paperwork, buy the litter box, haul home a carrier, and confidently […]

A true story of good intentions, expensive cat litter, and two feline quality-control inspectors who were not consulted. It Seemed Like a Perfectly Reasonable Idea Every once in a while, I get one of those ideas that sounds sensible, responsible and downright enlightened. This should have been my first warning. This week’s brilliant idea was […]

Featuring observations from Mika, Koji, and the increasingly alarmed human. Walk down the pet food aisle these days (or surf the pet food stores on line) and you may find yourself checking the price tag twice. Then a third time. Then wondering whether the bag secretly contains tiny flakes of edible gold. Pet food prices […]

Why Your Cat Isn’t Following You Around… They’re Managing You. Every cat owner has heard the old saying that dogs have owners and cats have staff. Cute joke. Completely inaccurate. Cats don’t employ us. They supervise us. Take Koji, for example. From the moment I wake up until roughly ten or eleven in the morning, […]

Humans can’t sit still for five minutes anymore. They’re doomscrolling… checking email… watching six-second videos… starting hobbies… forgetting why they walked into the kitchen… …while cats spend forty-five uninterrupted minutes watching absolutely nothing happen outside a window. The joke? The cats are the only creatures in the house capable of sustained concentration. Editor’s Note Every […]

Every cat owner begins with the same innocent belief: you buy a litter box, pour in the litter, scoop it once or twice a day, and life is good. Then one particular cat comes along and decides the manufacturer’s design specifications are merely suggestions. Meet Koji. Koji is a handsome black cat with a tiny […]