by The Paws and Effect Gang | Nov 3, 2019 | Cat Behavior, Cats and People
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My male cat Diggle is 3 years old (we think). We adopted him from a shelter when he was supposedly 4 months old, but not 100% sure because he was with 100+ other cats from a cruelty case. We had another cast at that time... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Oct 6, 2019 | Cat Health, Cats and People
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I’ve given my cat three baths before, only when she’s been outside and gets dirty and starts to itch herself or feels oily when I pet her. I recently just gave her a bath, using Dawn (which is what I’ve always used) and I... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Sep 15, 2019 | Cat Behavior
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I love cats in fact, they’re my favorite animals. But I’ve got two problems: I’m allergic and I don’t understand their body language. So I have a few behavior-related questions: Why does my cat lay at my feet or... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Sep 1, 2019 | Cat Health
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I was wondering if you would have any advice on how to dispose of the tapeworm sections that are coming out of my kittens and into the environment? What will happen if the tapeworm sections (with the eggs in) are left in... 
by JaneA Kelley | Aug 18, 2019 | Cat Culture, Interviews
A few weeks ago in our email newsletter, we told you about Peace Island, a cat-based video game currently being created by game developer Eric Blumrich and his partner in game dev and in life, social worker Laura Mackey. I know, I know: you probably think of...
JaneA Kelley is a punk rock cat mom and award-winning blogger. She is a regular columnist for Catster Magazine, and she and the Paws and Effect Gang share a home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.