Recent Content by alecwest

Most people know what Craigslist is ... a kind of free-for-all site for posting personal ads. A British newspaper did an article about the top 20 strangest ads on Craigslist ... and ad #17 involves a cat. Funny, hehehe: http://tinyurl.com/l53nsn

Three full sleep studies later (and using a free loaner machine afterward), I finally got my own "auto-BiPAP" machine. It's funny ... my cat doesn't bother the machine at all ... but she's fascinated by the carrying case, hehehe. She climbs into it and sometimes sleeps in it - and claws me...

The thing worrying me now is whether she'll stop attacking me and start attacking the machine when I get it (grin). She thoroughly "inspects" every appliance I bring into my home. And if the appliance has moving parts or parts that make noises, she's even more thorough. Since I do some...

Recently, I began having health problems and saw my doctor ... who referred me to three specialists. One of those specialists was a sleep medicine specialist who wanted me to do an "apnealink" sleep apnea screening. This is not a full-blown "sleep study." Rather, I'd take a small machine home...

This story comes from emails between me and the wife of a close friend. A friend of mine had an older male cat named Poko. Whenever he'd sit down anywhere, Poko was on his lap. When he went to bed, Poko would curl up at the end of the bed by his feet. And when he had to go out somewhere...

I thought that was neat, too. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say. And, Lola has overcome her deformity by teaching herself to walk on two legs. BTW, if anyone wants to watch it at a slower bitrate, I captured the file and reencoded it as a RealVideo file...

This has to be the weirdest video I've ever seen. A cat was born with deformed hind legs (oversized). So, while the cat scampers around and plays on all four legs, the cat has learned to walk on just TWO legs. Check out the video linked to below (Windows Media). The "bi-ped" action starts...

From early in my cat's life, I noticed some strange bahavior that now "seems" to make sense. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, she'll start running around the house at high speed ... back and forth. This goes on for about five minutes, then she lies down. Anyhow, after a while, I noticed...

Actually, I tried a number of foods when she was younger. And one brand stood out from the others. She digs into it right away every time the dish is cleaned and refilled. It's "Alley Cat" brand dry cat food. In the wet food area, she devours little tins of "Sheba" when I get them. But, she...

My cat, Velcro, does a lot of weird stuff I let her get away with. For example, I have a box where I store all the small plastic bags I get from grocery shopping trips ... using them later for small trash can liners. Occasionally, Velcro gets into the box and takes a few of the bags out to...

Velcro (my cat) is giving me dirty looks - but I have found a solution to the door-scratching problem. Originally, I was going to take some advice I'd read here earlier. But then, I started thinking - "Hmm ... what is it that my cat either hates or avoids?" And then it came to me. During...

Hello. I joined recently and posted in the "behavior" forum about a scratching issue with my cat. My cat, a female, first came to me on a cold January morning. A local feral cat in my neighborhood had three kittens. I was in my kitchen one morning when I heard a noise at the sliding-glass...

I think I'll try the carpet runner idea first, followed by the plastic idea. BTW, my cat's favorite "scratching post" is an old cloth-back chair I have in front of my computer (grin). But I don't mind. Whenever I sit in front of my computer, she jumps up on the back of the chair and starts...

I have a behavior issue that's driving me up the wall. I have a 5 year-old spayed female living in my apartment. And, she's always been an indoor cat. She's always been a scratcher, too, and frankly, I don't mind most of her scratching (carpets, furniture, etc.). But one kind of scratching...