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    Halloween greetings and Halloween musings from your friendly (tattooed) neighborhood Cat Daddy. Jackson taped this a year ago, but the messages are still relevant today. Have a great, safe, and Happy Halloween!    

Jackson speaks about a huge factor in human/cat relationships. Here, he refers to episode 5 (season 3) of My Cat From Hell. Here’s Jackson…   The episode was much more about Ruben the human than Roscoe the cat. Ruben needed a lot of work to get to the point where he was not just a guardian [...]

  Jackson answers your questions via video.  ”How do I help my cat not be so afraid of strangers?” Jackson shares really simple but effective tips and tricks on how to help scaredy cats become braver cats. Long before Jackson got his own T.V. show…   Jackson co-developed and started using his own line of holistic [...]

Body clocks can be a strange…and often annoying…thing. Just ask your cat! There’s a simple rule of thumb to follow when adjusting your cats to changes in time.

This week, I take a swim in the murky waters of animal “ownership,” Vs. “Guardianship.” It’s not all about language, but that’s a good place to start!   Some links mentioned in today’s post: Guardianship program – In Defense of Animals Vox Felina Jack The Cat’s Facebook Page What is the legal value of a [...]

Some musings and tips on things like: dressing your cats up in costumes, the practice of not adopting out black cats for Halloween, and just some general tips for the scary night!   This about sums it up…

We all wish we could be better cat communicators and know more precisely what our cats are thinking at any given time. Fortunately, we don’t need to be animal psychics to do this. We just need to be good observers. Watching the visual cues coming from the cat’s ears, whiskers, fur, and overall body positions [...]

Erin-Blythe and her cat friends Lynx, 11, Clover, 10, and Trill, 16, became friends of mine some time ago. I first met her when she began ordering Spirit Essences for her companions. We represent opposite ends of the same rope in many ways; Erin-Blythe lives on Providence Bay in Canada – I’ve never shared this [...]

A rant I went on after watching a show on the domestic history of cats. My message is simple – cats are perfect. Don’t mess with them.

This picture was posted on my Facebook page by my friend Kris. I was (and still am) hypnotized by it. When I asked Kris for permission to post it here, she said: Yes! the girl is my (ten on friday) daughter Simone! the cat is Richie Cunningham, a stray we took about 8 months ago. [...]