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Catty Corner

Catty Corner is a wonderful online store for people who love cats! Tucked away in the Marshall's Indian Tree shopping center, Catty Corner offers many unique items cat owners will use and love. Household ware, clothes, purses, jewelry, books, cat games, delightful children toys as well as items for your cat. 

Please visit Blue Hills. They are a great pet supply store with wonderful natural foods, new and exciting pet toys and any thing else you want for your cat or dog. Partition bathtubs and counters are available to wash-shampoo and blow-dry your own dog. The Bakery and Dog Café offers all organic, human grade dog treats. I visit Blue Hills Dog and Cat Shoppe often. 

A warm staff is ready to help you in making your pet supply shopping, a pleasant and fun experience. Say hi to Whisper for me! (the shop cat)

1738 Pearl Street, Suite 120
Boulder, CO 80302

303-449-5069

Colorado Canines and Cats provides dog and cat toys, treats and stuff for people who love pets. A wonderful shop located in beautiful Boulder, the east end of the Pearl Street Mall. You'll find pet treats, artwork, ceramics and a wide variety of things for your furry friends.  "Major", a sweetheart. Across the street is Penny Lane, a nice hang out place for coffee and music. Just within these 2 blocks are quite a collection of unique used clothing stores.

Good Samaritan Pet Center

PO Box 202005

Denver, CO 80220

303-333-5111

Non-profit agency to promote healthy relationships between people and their pets, striving to prevent animal abuse and abandonment.  

 

Denver Dumb Friends League - check website for hours/locations

 

Animal Rescue & Adoption Society

2390 S. Delaware Street

Denver, CO 80223

303-744-6067

 

Colorado Humane Society

2760 S. Platte River Drive

Englewood, CO 80110

303-781-9344

 

Thanks to Jay Leber at Creative Computer Consulting, host of my web site. 

Thanks to Bruce Delaplain who helped designed this web site and he also edited Cat Be Good. If you want to hire a great solo, duo, trio or quartet blues band, please contact Bruce.

Notes

My basic premise regarding cat behavior :

Cats are like people. Our diet, exercise and environment (abuse, communication, heritage, etc.) affect both people and cat behavior. 

Cat Diet/Food

Diet affects health & behavior. If we ate the same food, every meal, every day, us humans would not feel or act right either. Don't  feed cats dry food only or one food only. 

I can tell you many stories of how mean, scared or sick cats improved and whose lives were saved - just by feeding a more sensible, balanced and wide-variety diet. (Add massage, steam and chicken broth, healing took little time for my foster cats.)  

It's not natural for cats to eat dry food only. In the wild, cats eat only raw foods and seldom drink water. Living indoors only and eating only dry foods is not healthy. Please feed your cat wet food too! Table scraps can include chicken, turkey, lamb, vegetables, butter. 

Do NOT feed your cat: pork, white flour products, sugar/substitutes, chocolate, canned tuna or dog food.

Some preservatives in dry food are suspect of causing behavior or kidney problems. Avoid feeding dry foods which contain these preservatives: ethoxyquin, BHA/BHT or propyl gallate. Ethoxyquin was originally developed as a weed killer, rubber hardener, pesticide & insecticide. 

I say: "If you want a good cat, feed him good food." Higher quality cat foods are often cheaper in the long run: cat eats less, has better health and behavior and may not need to see the vet as often. 

Outside Cats

Many cats with behavior problems get their lives extended or saved by being taken on supervised outdoor walks. Going outside stops or alleviates many cat behavior problems. Many peeing declawed cats and cats on verge of being taken to a shelter or euthanized lives are extended by going outside. Some cats DO adapt, and even like being kept indoors only, but not ALL cats can be kept indoors. In all my years of fostering cats, there are a few cats I've met that really don't like to go outside. For the most part cats love outdoors! Thousands of people train their cats to walk on lead (harnessed). I train my cats to stay in the yard and take walks on harness. 

I have found that cats who go outside don't get bored or go 'crazy' as cats who are kept indoors only. Also, I don't have to spend as much time entertaining them. Outside is the best 'baby sitter' for cats - just as some people think TV is best "baby sitter" for children.  Cats who go outside get vitamin D from the sunshine, they maintain their coat by rolling in dirt and are better able to find their home should they accidentally get outside. 

Details to my advice above are described in my book Cat Be Good. 

Declawing

Cats builds muscles in the chest, back, stomach, neck by scratching their post (a cat's  'workout gym'.)  The "exercise" of a declawed cat is compromised and diminished because he is unable to grip and pull/work the same muscles as clawed cats. His ability to be a good listener may be side tracked with phantom limb pain and stress of having no fingers/toes.  

Click here for more information on declawed cats.

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