Mastering of Indoor Cat Life

It started with a sound — the specific rapid-fire scratching of a back paw hitting the base of an ear with more frequency and more

Oliver is deeply asleep on the radiator cover — the full lateral sprawl that means he has achieved maximum comfort and minimum dignity — and

I noticed it on a Saturday morning when Oliver was sitting in his characteristic loaf position on the radiator cover — front paws tucked under,

In veterinary medicine, we have a phrase we use with colleagues but rarely say directly to clients in quite this way: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is

At least once a month, a friend finds out I vaccinate Oliver and asks some version of the same question: “But he never goes outside