Recent Content by mattingly's mom

Ok, I'm no expert at this, and am currently in the process of introducing a new kitten to our home for many of the same reasons you cite. My husband and I work long hours and we worry about our nearly one-year-old boy becoming lonely when we are gone. I had many cats growing up, and my opinion...

Have any of you come across this with your cats? I've experienced it with dogs, but not with cats. Our new kitten does it sometimes with a toy she has just "caught". We have feathers on the end of a string and when we go to pull it to keep playing, sometimes she will growl at us. Tonight she...

We have just adopted a new kitten to keep our little guy company because my husband and I work long hours. If they are both kittens, I think it's probably pretty easy to introduce them because they both have been used to being with other cats quite recently, and will really enjoy the extra...

Thanks for the encouragement! Last night we started playing with them using toys, so the attention wouldn't be just on each other and it's starting to work. We've also started gently breaking them up when the play seems to get too rough for her. Our older boy, Mattingly is so smart, and is...

Hi All. I'm new here to these forums. My story is this. My husband and I rescued a very small sick kitten last summer from the middle of the road. Over the past months he has grown into a beautiful, loving, playful, healthy boy. The perfect cat basically... maybe a bit on the skittish side...