• Pets

    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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    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…