You know how you can feel like you’re juggling ten things at once...work stuff, relational drama, emotional weigh‑ins...and your body might be giving subtle (or not‑so‑subtle) signs? Well. I recently had one of those weeks. A relational issue, emotional drain, tears, mentally overthinking, the full package...

If you’ve been around here a while, or read my previous post about Lars and his glorious emotional baggage, you know that this sweet boy has separation anxiety with a capital S-A. At home? He’s a dream. A slightly dramatic dream, but a dream nonetheless. He plays, purrs, eats well, snuggles like a pro and patrols the hallway like he’s got rent to pay...

Let’s start with the basics. If you're a cat parent and you've never heard of resorptive lesions, consider yourself lucky. These little dental nightmares are like cavities...but worse. Technically known as Feline Odontoclastic Resorptive Lesions (FORLs), they happen when a cat’s body starts dissolving its own tooth from the inside out. Yeah. It's as bad as it sounds...

If you’ve read about Lars before, you know he’s my tender little soul...sweet, snuggly and absolutely wrecked when we go on vacation. And when I say I tried everything to help him, I mean everything. Here’s some of the ideas I tried for helping Lars with separation anxiety that I got from lots of online searches...

When we adopted Lars and his sister Zigrit, we already had a cat sitter we trusted deeply. She’d been with us for years...she knew our house, our rhythms, our cats. She was part of the family. Lars, being young and still figuring things out, eventually accepted her as part of his new world. At first, he hid. Then, over time, he’d perch halfway down the stairs to watch her from a safe distance...

Let me introduce Lars, the household athlete and professional snuggler. He is sleek, a little muscular tank in a velvet jumpsuit and he melts into cuddles like warm butter. He also happens to...

If you’ve found yourself here, you’re probably a fellow pet person who’s Googled things like “why does my cat have diarrhea every Tuesday” or “is it normal for a cat to meow constantly at ceiling fans.” You are not alone...and you've come to the right place. :)