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9 Great Pets – Reviewed with Children in Mind
Includes 3 Very Low Maintenance Options & 3 Common Choices That Are Not Ideal Sometimes it’s hard to know what kind of pet would best suit your family and your child, if you don’t have a lot of experience with animals. Enter me, black pants covered in cat hair, glasses askew because I fell while…
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5 Things You Need If You Have Pets
There are just some things you need if you’re going to have pets. Besides patience and a strong stomach, of course. I mean real things that help make life easier. Having owned many pets over the years, here are five of my favorite things – basic, useful items that I wouldn’t want to do without:…
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The Survival Manual for after your Pet’s Spay or Neuter Surgery
(Disclaimer: actually a tongue-in-cheek trip down memory lane – more “I feel your pain,” less “do this to really survive”) So you’re headed home from the vet with your groggy and adorable friend in the back seat. You’re silently sending up praise and hallelujahs that Fido or Princess sailed right through the surgery without a…
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5 Great Places to Hide a Litter Box
I know the kitten was cute…have you ever seen a kitten that wasn’t? Or maybe you’re the saint that adopted the longest resident at your shelter. Or maybe, like me, a skinny, skittish stray darted around your yard for days and you fed her, won her trust, and she decided she’d just move in and…
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Along Came a Cat
Is there such a thing as inhaling too much cat hair? I may be asking for a friend… Or I may be asking because I’m currently covered in it. As I type on my iPad, I am typing through a thin layer of, you guessed it, cat hair. And the cat was just between my…