Cats And Coupons

My family tends to take frequent vacations to various places around the country. When we’re going to travel we try to find good deals, but you have to consider lots of things besides price with travel. It’s not like grocery shopping and using double coupons. We always try to find a hotel that’s clean and affordable, and good staff can be a factor as well. There are a good number of jobs in the travel industry, including Resort Manager Jobs. If you’re young and enjoy seeing different places these are jobs you might think of checking into.

How do you think cats hunt small prey? I know from television that larger cats wait, and pounce. Do smaller cats do the same? Tom the cat from Tom and Jerry, often uses objects such as knives to hunt Jerry the mouse. However he rarely finds success in his efforts. Is hunting just for larger cats, or do smaller cats need tools such as  Martor USA utility knives.

Its’ no secret that many cats like to try and nibble on live plants. I’ve received roses and other flowers and caught my cats checking them out. I cant even imagine how upset I’d be if I had one of those beautiful custom floral arrangements and the cats tried to snack on that. One thing cat owners should be aware of is what plants and flowers might be dangerous to their cats. After all, cats, unlike flowers, are irreplaceable.

One of our cats seems to never stop eating. He is enormous but not fat, at least not yet. I don’t even begin to know what suppresses appetites in cats. He plays a lot and runs around the house, so he does get some exercise. I don’t really know how to get more exercise in his daily life, besides when he walks around the house and when he plays. Do you have any suggestions?

Here’s an update on the mouse situation. Basically we don’t think that our cats could find any mice, not even if they had a car gps strapped to their backs. They never so much as look at the cabinets, never mind try to get in them. Maybe they play together. So we’re using mousetraps. To date we’ve caught four mice in the kitchen cabinet. They seem to be most attracted to cookies, something we discovered when we discovered the mouse problem. We had noticed all Oreo packages were getting chewed while other packages weren’t getting touched. We’ve used peanut butter as well as the cookies. I thought we’d have caught more by now, because where there’s one surely there’s more.

Guest post written by Karen Fischer

I don’t just trust any old thing that I pick up while I’m browsing in a flea market. I go to flea markets all the time and know good and well that a lot of the things you’ll find there are just junk. But hidden among all that junk is some treasure that’s just waiting to be uncovered and bought. I take going to the flea market as kind of a challenge to find something amazing that I can’t live without.

It doesn’t always happen though, so I also vary which flea markets I go to every now and then as a way to just change things up. When I was online a few weeks ago looking for a new market to hit up, I saw some clear deals. After I showed them to my fiance, we decided to change over our home internet service to one of them.

You don’t have to guess really hard to figure out that flea market shopping is one of my favorite things to do in my spare time. Next on my list is finding some decor for our guest bedroom makeover.

Imagine if cats played baseball. I was browsing the web and happened across the above photo and it got me to thinking about it. Cats love to play and run, so the running would be natural. Cats love to swat at things. Imagine a cat up at the plate, waiting to swing with one of those personalized bats. That cracks me up. Cats love to chase toys so going after a ball would probably be natural for them too. Plus, if they had to go to the bathroom they’d be near lots of dirt. I think a baseball game played by cats would be entertaining. Unfortunately, cats don’t have paws that will permit them to play baseball.

Do you allow your cats on the table? I mean the kitchen or dining room table of course. I don’t have super expensive furniture or anything, not that it would matter if it were expensive or even rustic dining furniture. I just really don’t like the cats getting up there. Our older male cat never went on the table in the first year we got him. Then he started going up there and we haven’t been able to get him to stop. He never goes up there when we’re eating. Our younger cat now goes up there from time to time, presumable because he sees the other cat up there. I’ve tried shooing them, squirting water and gently smacking their behinds. It only makes them leave the trable but does not prevent them from doing it again. Do or did your cats get up on the table? How did you handle it?

Lately one of my cats has been scratching on the bathroom cabinet. He never used the scratching post (one of those carpeted 2 story cat cave things) we got him other than to sit on, but he’d never really scratched at anything either. Now he’s scratching at my wood cabinet and it’s leaving scratch marks. I don’t want the damage to get any worse or I might need to look into a payday advance in order to get the cabinet repaired or replaced. Has your ct ever scratched and ruined something? What was it? How did you prevent it from happening again?

My younger cat, whom we’ve had for a year, loves to watch me shower. It’s pretty strange. When I turn on the water the cat is nowhere to be seen. Seconds after I get into the shower and close the curtain he is right there. He usually goes to one end of the shower, stands on his hind legs and looks into the shower. If cats had jobs, this would probably be fall into the category of customer service jobs. He’s quite dedicated. I thought it was just the shower that attracted hinm, perhaps the sound of the water on the curtain or something, but this past week I found that he also peeks into the tub when my youngest son is taking a bath. I’m surprised that the cat isn’t afraid of getting wet. Does you cat watch you shower or bathe?