HouseOfPurrfection

There are several pairs of cats in the HOP that don’t like one another: Zoe and Pooka, Brava and Pooka, Bruce and Pixie, and Bruce and Mars. So, quite frequently, hissing and growling can be heard at any given time when one of these pairs of cats comes in close proximity of each other. Usually [...]

This past weekend as I was working on my computer one afternoon, Desert was napping on my bed. When I noticed her, the light in the bedroom was beautiful, making the colors soft and muted, and she looked so comfortable lying amongst the rumpled sheets. During this time of year the sun hangs low in [...]

Because Desert’s having a difficult time spending all her time in the front bedroom, I’ve been letting her out every day into the outdoor enclosure. Several days ago, she got past me as I opened the bedroom door and rushed into the kitchen and up the stairs leading to the loft. Tired of chasing her, [...]

  As happens in a large enough group of any species, there are always a few who won’t like one another. This is the case within my clowder of cats. Zoe and Pooka are two such cats, as well as Zoe and Pishogue. Zoe and the Bad Boys are constantly at each other like two [...]

I don’t know how else to begin this post other than to admit that two mistakes were made in the HOP yesterday. I made the first embarrassing and potentially horrifying mistake; I accidentally and indirectly let Toby get out of the house. I’m still in shock that I allowed this to happen. The second mistake [...]

Several weeks ago we officially began keeping the bathroom door closed so that the cats could no longer wreck havoc in this room that we’d really like kept clean, for understandable reasons. Plus, we just wanted a place, albeit a very small place, of privacy for ourselves. Well, it’s working out marvelously! The cats have [...]

I was reading recently about how difficult it is for us humans to read the subtleness of feline communication. The subtleness? Too difficult to understand? I can tell you, being an owner of 19, indoor cats I’ve discovered that there is nothing subtle about how my cats communicate either with us or one another. When [...]

For most of the month of June and part of July I was silent from my blog because I couldn’t put into words the emotions I was feeling going through the emergencies that plagued the HOP during that time. I put my full attention on caring for the three pets that took center stage: Reina, [...]

On the 10th of June, our vet called me with the results of the biopsy performed on the growth removed from Avita’s mouth. Malignant cancer was found. Now, it was time to worry. I not only had the worry of Avita’s health, but also the worry of telling Mom when she got home from work. [...]

The month of June, 2009, were four weeks of heart break and stress. One emergency after another kept coming, and at the time, it was too difficult for me to write about all that was happening, hence my absence from this blog. However, the HOP is quiet again after having weathered the emotional storms that [...]