Felis Catus

The official blog of Tabby's Place.

For (Sweet) Pete’s sake

I’m with T.S. Eliot on the topic of cat names: each feline deserves no less than three, and one of those can be known only to the cat himself. For day-to-day use, every cat needs a “sensible everyday name,” and, at Tabby’s Place, that generally means the name that she came with from her shelter of origin. […]

Cat Scratch Fever

Raise your hand if you thought that this post would be about the disease “cat scratch fever.”  Or, if you’re as old as me, you might think it would be about the putrid song with that name by the unbearable  Ted Nugent (though “Journey to the Center of the Mind” by the Amboy Dukes is […]