For your cat’s health and happiness, please go as green as you can. I recently came across this article about a government study that found a “significant association” between hyperthyroidism in cats and certain flame retardants. Basically, the flame retardant that’s sprayed on your furniture, carpet and CHILDREN’S CLOTHING is linked to the death of [...]

If you’ve been thinking of switching your cat to raw cat food, but are looking for a more convenient option, here’s my honest review of The Honest Kitchen’s Prowl cat food. My cat, Furball, had been on the same diet for about two years. Because he had a history of struvite crystals, I had him [...]

Every so often, something fun lands in my inbox that I can’t resist sharing. A few weeks ago, I received this cute Cat Anatomy illustration full of interesting cat facts and fun trivia on cat health. I couldn’t fit the full size graphic on my blog, but I did cut out a this fun drawing [...]

It doesn’t take much for a calm cat to turn into a kitty suffering with anxiety. Even the most innocuous thing such as moving the cat bed can freak out cats. Furball’s a high-strung cat who gets sick when something stressful happens. Moving houses led to pancreatitis. An earthquake combined with an accidentally dropped cutlery [...]

Given Furball’s latest bout of blocked bladder, I felt it would be a good idea to summarize everything I’ve learned about natural ways to prevent urinary problems in cats.  The primary focus of this blog post is on managing crystals in cat urine, specifically struvite crystals as this Furball’s primary issue when it comes to [...]

It’s been 7 years since Furball had a blocked bladder. Unfortunately, it happened again just a few days ago. I noticed the signs early (straining, constant walking in and out of his box trying to pee, but nothing coming out, trying to pee on the floor, etc.) and got him to a vet straightaway. This [...]

Despite the title of this post, I’m actually neutral about raw meat diets for cats as I haven’t actually tried it. About the time I heard about a convenient way to feed Furball raw food (see post on The Honest Kitchen), it was no longer an option since I had a baby. It’s pretty disturbing [...]

I just received this email promotion from PetzLife.  They’re having a Memorial Day sale and offering 10% off all of their products. I wrote a review about their gel product awhile back. Suffice to say, it did a great job of keeping Furball’s teeth clean and he loved the taste of it. Visit their website [...]

Just got wind of this recall posted on the FDA site.  I’m not that surprised since this was the company that wouldn’t tell me whether their products were processed by Menu Foods, citing confidentiality.   See “Related Articles” to read what I learned about Nature’s Variety in the Natural Cat Food Throwdown. Excerpts from the FDA [...]

I was recently reading the latest newsletter from the David Suzuki Foundation.  If you’re Canadian, you know who he is.  If you’re not, David Suzuki is like the Al Gore of Canada, only he’s been in the public eye supporting the environment since the 70′s and no one questions the science he presents because it’s [...]