Joelle Steele Enterprises

Established 1983

Olympia, Washington

ARTICLES

Cats and Cat Care

by Joelle Steele

The following articles provide more information about cat care. I add new articles periodically, so you might want to bookmark this page for future reference.

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A Feline Garden of Delights - Catnip, Catmint, Cat Thyme, Valerian, & Cat's Medicine: Explores what's in these basic cat herbs and how to grow them.

An Ounce of Prevention - Diagnosing Common Feline Ailments: Covers skin problems, waste handling disorders, ear and eye problems, dental problems, parasites, and critical problems.

Catlore: A brief look at the history, myth, lore, and legend behind cats.

Caring for Orphaned Kittens: How to prevent chilling, create a nest, feed formula, feed solid food, and groom kittens.

Coping With Grief: How to handle grief starting with your first reactions, expressing grief, casting the blame, mourning, family reactions, support systems, grief without death, and moving on with your life.

Feeding Finicky Felines: Tips on how to handle and prevent a finicky feline by feeding on schedule, providing a wide variety of foods, and making gradual changes in diet.

Feline Acne: Diagnosis and treatment of feline acne (pyoderma) with traditional and alternative medicines.

Feline Urinary System Disorders: A brief overview of feline urologic syndrome (FUS) and kidney disease, and some possible homeopathic treatments.

Managing A Multi-Cat Household: Handling personality conflicts, indoor and outdoor cats together, off-limits areas, litter box preferences, sleeping areas, meal time, and sharing your love with everyone.

Nutritional Needs - Is Commercial Food Healthy? What Is the Alternative?: Commercial cat food and some healthy alternatives.

Non Chemical Warfare in the Battle of Cats vs. Fleas: Know your enemy, natural flea control, non-toxic flea control that really works, natural methods, even natural can be dangerous, and chemical flea controls.

Plants May Be Poisonous to Your Cats: Diagnosing plant toxicity in your cat, what plants can be dangerous, dangers lurking in the soil, and treatment for poisoning.

Protecting Your Cat From Household & Environmental Hazards: Finding and removing hazards from the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, home office, hobby rooms, living room, basement, and garage. Purchasing safe toys and other pet products. Protecting cats during the Christmas holidays.

Purring - Music to a Cat Lover's Ears: A brief look at why, when, and how cats purr.

Reincarnation: Has Your Cat Lived Before?: Some people believe their cats have returned to them after death. What do you think?

Special Care For Elderly Cats: Explores the elderly feline's need for human contact, supplementary grooming, and adherence to a routine. Discusses behavior changes, diet and nutrition, failing of the senses, diseases, and living indoors in a safe environment.

Through A Cat's Eye - Understanding Feline Vision: What cats see, the eye's structure, night vision, seeing colors, eye color, and diseases and disorders of the eye.

Twinkle: A Disabled Cat Can Be A Role Model: The story of a disabled cat who survived and thrived.