HouseOfPurrfection

I do have a penchant for unusual and memorable names for my cats: Mars, Pasha, Smudge, Tiny Pea, Juga, and Onni. That’s because I dislike using human names for animals names, and I love being strangely creative. Besides, if the names aren’t strange, they’ll be more difficult to remember. Anyway, that’s my theory. However, I [...]

Bruce’s injury to his back, right paw is finally and completely healed. After enduring the removing of very sticky tape from his paw for the third time, he is foot loose and fancy free once again. If we even look at that back paw, his green eyes dilate threatening. I’ve inspected his paw a few [...]

For the past two weeks I’ve had a rush of new clientele from another nail tech in town with whom I network. She has sustained an injury that is very common among nail techs; she has a frozen shoulder. Due to the repetitive movements we make while working and the continuous volley of one type [...]

Ideally, what should happen when you put down a bowl of water for your cat? The cat should drink from said bowl. Ideally. Logically. What shouldn’t happen is the cat using the bowl as a leveraging instrument to gain control in the household. But, that’s exactly what’s happened. For approximately a month we’ve been battling [...]

As our vet magically craned backed Reina’s head from her lower jaw, he checked the condition of her healing gums. This morning he was happy with her progress after her tooth extraction surgery two weeks ago. We are both so relieved and glad that she is finally able to eat and live pain-free. Her gums [...]

I called our vet’s office yesterday and updated them about Bruce’s injury. Even though Bruce’s cut toe pad still bleeds if the bandage is off, the injury isn’t infected or getting worse. Therefore, they didn’t feel it necessary for me to bring him in for a visit. They instructed me to keep the bandage on [...]

I’m admitting to breaking the first rule of journalistic reporting last Wednesday morning: I cared more about the subject than reporting the story. So far, I’ve posted content that has been accompanied by a photo or two in order to make the story more interesting. Cat photos with a cat story are just so much [...]

Reina’s doing so well after her surgery to remove her teeth! She is eating the dry food again, and she hasn’t done that in months! Oh, sweet relief. We’ve weathered another storm and can relax once again. The first couple of days after her surgery, I fed her a couple cans of tuna to help [...]

I rarely sleep undisturbed through the night. On average, I’m awakened three times during the night due to a parade of cat acrobats. The running, pouncing, fighting, and purring are the usual activities waking me. However, the most common scenario that disturbs my sleep is when there are between 5 and 6 cats sleeping all [...]

After months of annoying even ourselves with the one-word refrain, ‘Toby’, finally, Toby has begun responding to his name. If he was a parrot, he’d be able to mimic us perfectly by now. Having started out fresh with a strange cat, we’re relieved to finally see progress from our efforts in getting him used to [...]