Bundle some Christmas spirit for your cat-loving friends and family.
There are now three Christmas stories in the Klepto Cat Mystery series. The first one: Book 13, A Picture-Purrfect Christmas, has been reformatted (the print version) and revised (for clarity and editorial value). This is a sweet story of love and sharing. Check out the reader reviews at Amazon.com.
A Christmas to Purr About, Book 22 features a 
community coming together for a wonderful cause and animals helping other animals. It’s priceless.
The newest holiday story in the Klepto Cat Mystery series is A Very Meowy Christmas. This may be the most emotionally-driven of the three, and oh, so satisfying.
Order all three from me at http://www.kleptocatmysteries.com or purchase them at Amazon.com
Has someone finally deciphered meow language? Sure, we can read a cat’s body language, but there are still moments when we cannot understand what the cat wants and it’s frustrating. Well, Jonas Jurgella, author of The Cat Language Bible, How to Finally Understand and Speak With Your Cat says that someone has finally broken the cat’s silence. Jonas is an animal researcher and an animal behavior specialist. He claims there’s been a huge breakthrough
in communicating with cats, which he describes as “intelligent, yet formerly 
misunderstood animals.” I haven’t read it yet, but plan to. If you beat me to it, I’d love to post your review here. Here’s the link: 
Today I’ll introduce two of my favorite cat products—although I haven’t tried either of them, yet. And I’ll tell you about two surprising medical devices for cats.
My two favorite products that I’m curious about, but have yet to purchase are the Pretty Litter and the cat-in-the-bag. Grandma used to put her Siamese cat in a pillow case to take him to the veterinarian. It worked for her. But now there’s something the cat might like better—the official cat in the bag that fits the cat like—well, like a sleeping bag, perhaps. Check it out here. 
or Lily.
Does your cat truly love you—does she really care?
Preliminarily, the consensus of researchers at Oregon State University is that cats are definitely capable of having a deeply emotional relationship with their “owners.” The team of researchers found evidence suggesting that cats form unique, complex, and deep emotional relationships. Isn’t that music to our ears? This is what cat lovers believe. To have it verified through scientific studies makes my day!
attachment test historically used on primates and dogs. They put 70 kittens in a room with a caregiver for two minutes, then left the kittens alone for two minutes before reuniting them with the caregiver. More than 60 percent of the kittens displayed, they say, a “secure attachment style.” This means the kittens demonstrated attachment and a sense of feeling secure when the caregiver returned. Thirty percent of the kittens didn’t display this attachment and remained stressed.
As I said, they don’t feel they are finished with their research in this area. They’ve determined that a cat’s emotional development is more complex than they had guessed and there is more work to be done in order to fully understand “these multifaceted animals.”
So is your cat a righty or a lefty? Have you been watching which paw he leads with when he plays, bats a ball around, reaches for your hand wanting a petting? Which paw does she use most often to pull something out of a bowl or a box?
Sophie, however, seems to lead with her right paw most of the time–except for last night. She kept pawing me trying to get me to continue petting her–the girl never gets enough petting–and she repeatedly used her left paw. She’ll also do a high-five-paw and almost always with her left paw.
Not all cats are created equal. There are cats whose ears are too large, cats with wimpy, rat tails; odd body shapes; or an un-attractive face. Some cats have too many toes, a crooked tail or odd eyes. There are cats with bright luxurious coats and those with coarse short fur. Remember Grumpy Cat? She was not the prettiest cat on the block.
of a two-faced kitten. Some cats are born without limbs or without the use of one or more of them. Cats are no different from any other species when it comes to the occasional unfortunate genetic or birth defect.
Some people are drawn to special-needs cat and give their life to care for one or more of them. Some love the polydactyl cat—as did Earnest Hemmingway who seemed to tap into a line of cats that bred polydactyls—and he evidently wasn’t much for birth control. 
At last count, there were still forty or fifty polydactyl cats at Hemmingway’s home in Key West, Florida.
Most of us who have admired cats for any length of time have our favorite types and styles of cats. In fact I have several and they all boil down to the kitten-faced cat with plush fur and, of course, a sweet disposition.
I know people who delight in cats like Rags (in my Klepto Cat Mystery stories)—a more challenging cat. They adore the cat with tons of confidence and a mind of his own. Some prefer the lanky sleek-fur cats. I know people who collect black cats of all sizes, shapes, and fluffiness.
Photographing cats is a real test in patience. I’m so glad we’re no longer buying film and paying to have it developed because the cats I photograph—mine and others—would be costing me a fortune. I sometimes believe I get more bad shots than good ones when I’m photographing cats.
once posed ever so beautifully until the camera comes out then POOF, they disappear. Most of the bad shots I get of cats simply show a blur of fur or maybe only a tail or a few whiskers in the frame. Either the cat saunters or runs off or she walks toward me, giving me a distorted view of her nostrils.
is a happy cat.
Most of us who have been fascinated by cats for any length of time have heard that a white cat with blue eyes is prone to congenital deafness. And this carries true into many breeds of cat, not just a random white cat. The possibility of pigment-associated deafness is present in the Ragdoll, Manx, British shorthair, Persian, Cornish Rex and others.
serious untreated infection, for example.
