My husband has a congenital heart issue that can cause him to go into atrial fib (irregular heart beat) — a condition usually reserved for much older people. About 6 years ago, he underwent a procedure that fixed the issue and of course, his parents and I did the waiting room thing. They put him under, installed a…

Our fat kitteh, Max, furiously nuzzled me awake late at night - insistent pawing and meowing. As I woke up, annoyed, I noticed a weird burning smell. After a cursory look around, my husband pooh-poohed Max’s admonition but I called 911.

Our family cat totally freaked out and let us know when our chimney fell over and was directing flames right at the roof. Obviously a cat doesn’t understand fire hazards, but I guess he either saw the flames or it was making some noise he didn’t like. So he made sure to meow like a fiend until the stupid humans would…

Years ago our house was burgled while no one was home. When my mom alone back from work, our family cat, Mako, greeted my mom at the door and tried to tell her that people had been in the house and something was wrong. Our family cockatiel, who knew how to bark, was apparently so loud that the burglers covered his…

The other day I put my dog in the driver’s seat because I wanted to take a pic of her “driving” and she proceeded to give me Viola Davis level side eye. It was very cat-like of her, and I deserved it.

Water is water. There’s no Almond H2O. Did you mean water with almonds added? Also:

Being a cat lady myself, I have to disagree but I do worry that dogs might be evolving quicker and kitties are being left behind.

Extra skritches for Gracie! My dog once pulled a Lassie and went upstairs to get my dad, after my mom fell to the floor in the downstairs bathroom (with the door closed), semi-conscious with a blood sugar low. He kept nagging until Dad went downstairs. Saved her life!

This exact situation happened to my ex-bf a few years ago while we were dating!

Buried in the story of this fake news, the truth: “I don’t know how much she was saving our lives,” said Kevin, “But she wanted to get out of there, and she knew enough to know something was wrong, and she was pounding on the door.”

My recently deceased cat, Bob, did the same when my father left the gas on.

I take the weed route to work sometimes and go through some downtown residential streets where I see lots of kitties running around. I have stopped and tried to catch them (and also called the local feral spay/neuter to set up traps on my dime). This morning there was a dead kitty lightly covered in snow next to the…

HERO CAT!!!!!!!

Stories like this are why I get upset this campaign wasn’t successful.

“I say saved by grace, saved by the grace of God,”

What a Very Good Cat!

When I was in high school I dated an absolute zero of a guy because you HAD to date someone and he was available. Nerdy, zitty, bad hair - the whole works. So I bring him home to meet the folks and he decides to “lighten the mood” with a really bad ethnic joke with a punchline of “Spic and Span”. My mother was…

This is a story about me meeting my partner’s parents rather than the reverse, but I hope it still counts.

The first time my mother met my father’s parents, his father answered the door nude and put on a porno during dinner.