The one where Cloud has emergency surgery.

PSA: Those cute pictures of kittens playing with balls of yarn are false. Cats and string can make a deadly combination.

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I wish I spoke “cat.”

We do not like the cone of shame.

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On interspecies relationships.

I keep a creature in my house. I feed him dollar bills.

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Cats: The Good, The Bad, and the Unexpected (cats are never ugly)

Although most cats will get you up before you’re ready on the weekends, these two developed a habit of coming in during the middle of the night, banging the blinds against the window—I’m not kidding—and yowling when they wanted human attention. Aang has even resorted to leaping from the top of the eight-foot-tall bookcase onto my stomach when he really wants something.

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Seven things my cats have taught me about writing

If you’ve interacted with me in any way, shape, or form more than once, you’ll know that I have cats. Here are five things I’ve learned about writing from my cats, largely through no fault of their own.

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How to survive stomach flu.

My body is apparently making up for years of not being sick by trying to catch everything possible in the first quarter of this year. This week it was stomach flu, and I’ve only just been able to sit at a computer long enough to write. While the topic is fresh on my mind, here are my tips on surviving it!

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Kitty Health Scare

Aang scared me to death on Tuesday, but we’re all good now! And if you haven’t heard about it, Chewy.com has an amazing service where you can live-chat a vet.

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Hey, thanks!

What I’m thankful for, in no particular order.

This year we have a lot to be thankful for. And probably you’re part of it!

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Saving Pippin

A rainy day walk changes several lives.

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Traveling with cats

Getting them into their carriers is the worst part… or is it?

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It's the Little Things

This one is fluff because I’ve had a hard week and that’s what I need. It’s about how I bought my cats a cat tree and they loved it. The end. Seriously. This is what I’m writing about this week.