a magazine of cat tales | ISSN: 2769-058X
For any cats, treats are those items they don’t need to help them stay alive. They are those food items which they like to have and may claim they never got them when you ask them. They are small bite size pieces and cats never need much or they could gain weight as many humans can. Treats are something cats like to have when they’re available, but they can get tired of them if they get them too often or too much of them at any time.
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. —Eleanor Clark
Dogs are content to please and be good for their humans. Cats know how to get the same care without having to please. They can get what they need and want from their humans without those things. They can be quite adorable. They know what they are doing. It’s no wonder that I can’t say no to them.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. —Ernest Hemingway
Cats have no reason to hide what they feel. They have no filters and don’t care what we really think of them. Humans tend to worry about what others think of them and feel the need to hide how they really feel. Perhaps are right to be emotionally honest.
Dry food refers to the common food cats get when they live indoors with humans. The food is processed and is small bite size pieces of food. For any vegetarian, the food smells awful, but cats tend to love it because of the high animal content. Dry food is also referred to as crunchies because of all the crunching cats do when eating this food.
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. —Missy Dizick
Yes, cats are sneaky. But evil and cruel? They could be if you treat them badly. If you treat them well, they can be the most devoted friends you’ll ever have in your life. They can be happy to see you and play with you. But only if you treat them as well as they think they deserve or even better than that.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. —Ellen Perry Berkeley
I’ve never owned a cat. It’s just not possible. I’ve lived with cats and they knew I didn’t own them. I wouldn’t even dare to own a cat. It’s more fun to be partners. It certainly makes playtime that much better for all of us.
For a cat, wet food is a wonderful food treat. The good stuff has plenty of meat to get them excited as soon as they smell it. A human pops the lid off and the cat goes crazy until they can have it just below their mouth. Then they chow down. Depending upon whether they have trouble with their teeth or digestive trouble, wet food could be a necessity so the cat won’t go hungry. Usually, it’s just a treat compared to their regular food they eat.
I’ve noticed when I give wet food to the cats I live with, they tend to clean their teeth more than when they eat dry food. I find that a good thing when cats have complained whenever I’ve tried to brush their teeth.
Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. —James Mason
Cats have a grand old time in my presence. They’ve given me some great pointers on how to have a good time with them. They never seemed to mind when I was watching them. I know they watch me too. All the wrestling Sir Socks and Spot have done in front of me was amazing to watch.
Meow is like aloha — it can mean anything. —Hank Ketchum
Of course meow means a lot of different things. Cats tend to use one syllable over and over again until we understand them. They know we can’t completely understand whatever they say, but that never stops them from talking to us when they need to.
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. —Jean Burden
Cats can revert to their wild side faster than any human ever could. Cats can also come back inside the house and act more civilized than any human ever could after having a wild time out in the wild. I remember when Spot was outside how he would hide in the grass and stare at me. Yet, when I called his name, he came right to me.
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. —Lynn M. Osband
Cat math is something which I don’t fully understand. They have their own rules and can calculate easily how to get whatever they want and as soon as they want it. That is one thing I’ve learned from living with all the cats I have in my life.
Cats need shallow bowls to eat out of. It prevents them from getting too dirty while they eat or even just drink water. I suppose plates could do just as well for food, but not for water. Usually cats have bowls for food and water. It seems to be the easiest for their human caretakers to deal with when providing cats with food and water.
Usually the cats I live with don’t tend to get fat when I leave out plenty of food for them. They tend to exercise and of course play quite often. So, I’ve never had to deal with overweight cats.
There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. —Wesley Bates
Cats are indeed quite beautiful. I’d prefer a live one to any piece of sculpture, which cats could easily break when they play with it. I don’t have any knickknacks anymore because Spot used to knocked them off the floor.
Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. —Stephen Baker
It can seem as if cats just let human voices go through without paying that much attention to what we say. Too many humans say a lot without meaning much of anything at all. That’s probably why cats tune us out.
It doesn’t matter to a cat whether you call their toilet a litter box or a litter tray. A litter box or tray can be a simple as a rectangular low plastic box filled with litter. Some are enclosed so the cat can have privacy. I’ve even seen one that was huge and had stairs so the cat could go down into the litter and walk back up to get out of it. There are some which self clean after the cat is done.
There are many options and it makes me wonder what cats think about those options. I’ve never had one request a fancy self cleaning one because they usually like the job I do when cleaning out their boxes everyday.
Sir Socks Le Chat 