Recent Content by rawvixen

How much green tripe is ideal in a feline diet? Anyone have specific nutritional details, especially relevant to cats? Always thought of tripe as dog food, but this cat loves it. To my further surprise, a friend who had zero experience with raw feeding had no qualms about handling green tripe...

Update ... I was not "able to" rehome the kitten when I left the country. None of the options seemed quite good enough for her. So I bought a crate, and she came along on a slow and winding journey, six months of hitch-hiking, wandering through cities and camping in the woods. Cats aren't...

Oh! I hope it's ok that I posted the blog link then? Should I have checked with her first?

I'm linking to the entries tagged "cats," but really, there are amazing entries in all categories: http://chaoticidealism.livejournal.com/tag/cats

I was anti-schooled -- not just un-schooled but had a lot of impediments to learning on my own thrown in my way. And I'd still pit my level of education against the OP's any day.

Exactly! You might find this site and its blog interesting: http://effectiveapology.com/

Thanks! Vet here is useless unless something makes money for him. (He's not mercenary, does a lot of pro bono work, and he has to finance that somehow ...) She's roughly 18 weeks, based on dentals, but was probably runt of litter and is a bit delayed. She sustained some head injury from feral...

Thanks, Sharky! I thought I might be flamed for posting this ... Which hand signals do you use?

Yes, seriously. I heard about this in a podcast where Dr Sophia Yin was a guest to discuss her Low Stress Handling book. http://drsophiayin.com/ Here are the articles I've found on specific approaches: http://www.cat-training-information.com/...

What happens in skeletal/muscular development in a kitten that doesn't scratch at all? (Her claws require trimming every week, no problem.)

Possibly of interest: http://www.mcbfa.org/articles3.html http://maine-cooncat.com/

Thanks all! LOL. Great blog btw. Might recommend it to a few people who've been preaching down my neck. Or not, as that might show that I'm judging them for judging me. Wow! Gloria, thank you -- how could I have missed this until now? What a terrific resource. Hope so. Last night she was less...

I'm aware that a cat grooming a human is a good sign. But what does it mean when the cat wants to do this all the time? When I walk around, she runs between my feet; when I stand still, she repeatedly "love bites" my ankles. Am worrying that I'm too much like the "wire mother" in Harlow's...