My humans have this embarrassing story they love to tell--the one about me as a kitten, climbing up the living room curtains and sliding all the way down. And there's that time when in one afternoon my razor-sharp claws completely obliterated the left leg of the couch.

I was young. I didn't know any better. But now me and my humans understand that cats scratch to shed the outer part of our claws, and that it's more or less a force of nature: you can't stop it; you can only redirect it to appropriate surfaces.Read full post.

Boy am I glad I'm not a cat. I sure wouldn't want to have to do my business in a box.

But ever since we found out that most kitty litter is made of strip-mined clay, which is bad for the environment and people and may contain ingredients that are bad for kitties too, Cleo has been looking for a safer, greener alternative. Read full post.