When I adopted Acadia just over a year ago, a friend advised me that every cat, no matter how many other perfectly good places to sleep it might have, is under-served unless it has a basket also. “Pishposh!” I said, or meant to. And since, as time passed, Acadia seemed perfectly at ease in her […]
Sometimes when she sleeps, which is what she does mostly, she cradles her head in the crooks of her paws. It looks like she’s dreaming about something that’s gone terribly wrong. She yells at me when she wants to play fetch and then, when she’s tired of playing, sits on the ball so I can’t […]
Watching Acadia gobble up a lacewing that she’d just patted to death at a friend’s house over the weekend, I was reminded of the “crittercam” footage that NatGeo and others released a few years ago revealing the secret life of cats. They’d strapped tiny video transmitters to the cats’ collars, set the equipment to record […]
