Mishu

The first time I tried to brush my cat’s teeth she sat perfectly still for about four seconds before launching herself to the top of the bookshelf and refusing to come down for the rest of the evening. Learning how to brush cat teeth at home without the battle comes down to the prep work … Read more

The first winter I ran my apartment’s heater continuously, my cat developed what looked like a light dusting of flour along her spine, and I spent two weeks wondering whether something was seriously wrong with her. Getting rid of cat dandruff fast and for good turned out to be mostly about fixing the room, not … Read more

I spent three years assuming my long-haired indoor cat was fine because she looked presentable from a distance and never seemed bothered during our daily petting sessions. Then during a routine vet visit the veterinarian gently parted the fur along her spine and showed me three tight mats I had been brushing right over, treating … Read more

Finding a fur tumbleweed rolling across the kitchen floor every morning is one of those indoor cat realities nobody warns you about before you bring a cat home. Learning how to reduce cat shedding in the house took me a full season of lint rolling every black item I owned. What finally worked was going … Read more

I noticed my cat had been tilting her head slightly to the left for a few days before I looked inside her ear and found a small accumulation of dark debris near the outer canal from her favorite dusty hiding spot behind the radiator. Learning how to clean cat ears at home properly turned a … Read more

Every surface in my apartment has a permanent layer of fine white fur on it no matter how recently I vacuumed, and for the first two years I genuinely thought something was wrong with my cat. Learning why an indoor cat sheds so much turned out to be one of those explanations that made sense … Read more

My cat has needed a real bath twice in seven years of living indoors, and both times I made it worse by rushing. Learning how to bathe a cat that hates water comes down to pace. Fill the sink before she comes in. Have everything within reach before you touch her. The water rarely causes … Read more

The first time I tried to trim my cat’s nails she ended up under the bed and I ended up slightly bleeding from a scratch that came out of nowhere. Learning how to trim cat nails at home properly changed everything about that experience. It turned out the problem was not my cat and it … Read more

Finding a solid mat behind my cat’s ear after skipping a week of brushing was exactly the kind of avoidable problem that taught me just how much coat type determines everything about how often to brush indoor cat. It was not a long-haired cat. It was a medium-haired cat I had been treating like a … Read more