The Best of 2024: Dr. Karyn’s Favorite Stories About Her Cats

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Hi, I’m Dr. Karyn! Read my introduction to larn much astir maine and conscionable my 5 hilarious cats: Clutch, Cyril, Alex, Zelda, and Zazzles.

You cognize however each present and past a long-running TV bid drops successful a flashback episode, wherever the bulk of scenes are from erstwhile installments? You conscionable cognize that the writers either ran retired of ideas oregon conscionable wanted an casual week. Well, seeing arsenic it’s that weird and sleepy play betwixt Christmas and New Year erstwhile nary 1 seems to cognize what time it is oregon what they’re expected to beryllium doing, I thought it was the cleanable clip for immoderate reflection connected the past year. That’s right, this is my flashback post!

I’m conscionable kidding, but I did deliberation it was a large accidental to recap immoderate of my favourite posts from 2024 and let you to drawback up connected immoderate stories you whitethorn person missed.

Clutch and the Vacuum: A Love Story

Read it here: Clutch and the Vacuum: A Love Story (With Video)

Technically, I’m cheating a small spot here, arsenic this 1 really came retired astatine the extremity of 2023, but it is conscionable excessively bully not to include! The find that my precise not-deaf cat, Clutch, is not conscionable unphased by the handheld vacuum cleaner; helium really enjoys a bully grooming league with it! It’s a large mode to get escaped of his escaped fur earlier it ends up each implicit my apparel and furniture, but helium has started to get successful my mode erstwhile I’m really trying to usage the vacuum to cleanable the house. There aren’t excessively galore cats (or dogs) retired determination that are blessed to beryllium successful adjacent proximity to a vacuum cleaner, fto unsocial beryllium groomed by one. Proof that Clutch is 1 unsocial feline.

How My Cats Help Me to Switch Off and Focus connected the Now

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Despite the information that cats are often the absorption of societal media, they don’t admit sharing your attraction with it. Often erstwhile I find myself successful a doom-scrolling spiral, it is the forceful affection of my cats – peculiarly Cyril – that drags maine back. While I effort not to work excessively overmuch into my cats’ motivations, it does look rather deliberate that, aft spending a small excessively agelong staring astatine my screen, a feline volition unit their mode betwixt maine and my phone. Reflecting connected this has helped maine to admit erstwhile I person spent excessively overmuch clip successful the clutches of the virtual satellite and bring my absorption backmost to the fantastic creatures successful my existent world.

What’s That Sound? The Melodious Tones of the Feline Upchuck

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It mightiness look unusual that 1 of my favourite articles is the 1 astir vomiting, but what I liked astir this 1 was that I knew it would assistance a batch of radical recognize what is and isn’t mean erstwhile it comes to feline digestive pyrotechnics, arsenic good arsenic beryllium capable to admit the quality betwixt vomiting, regurgitation, and the “coughing” up of hairballs. We received a batch of affirmative feedback connected this one, with radical realizing that what they thought was a worrying respiratory occupation was really a motion of hairballs.

Sometimes I Scruff: When A Wrong Makes a Right

Read it here: Sometimes I Scruff: Thoughts On a Controversial But Practical Technique

Well, this 1 decidedly ruffled immoderate feathers! Reflecting connected this taxable aft the nonfiction went retired made maine recognize however overmuch a dominating sentiment tin sometimes beryllium mistaken for the close oregon lone one. Over the past decade, the usage of a scruff clasp to restrain a feline has fallen retired of favor, with galore feline specialists insisting that it is simply a cruel and distressing method. I tin archer you that it was a spot distressing trying to get a bully photograph of maine utilizing this clasp connected Cyril due to the fact that helium kept purring and trying to rotation implicit and play with me.

The information is that we person nary mode of knowing with immoderate certainty that a feline being restrained utilizing a scruff clasp is successful symptom oregon conscionable upset due to the fact that of immoderate is transpiring that makes the scruff clasp necessary. What I tin archer you is that, with the objection of a fewer cats that simply resent being touched successful this area, I person ne'er observed immoderate denotation of symptom from a feline restrained utilizing a close scruff clasp method. What cats bash resent and find stressful is being wrapped up and held tightly, and the little you restrict them, the calmer they are.

I judge successful utilizing well-executed techniques that are due for the idiosyncratic progressive and the process being performed. Making broad rulings and judgments based connected quality cognition of specified a method mightiness marque immoderate radical consciousness amended astir themselves, but I’m not definite that it genuinely reflects the feline experience.

Rant over.

Alex and the Somersault of Happiness

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Being capable to share this peculiar small maneuver with you each erstwhile Alex is truthful shy astir sharing it with others brings maine specified joy.

He somersaults erstwhile helium is blessed – what much tin I say?

Looking Ahead

As we accidental farewell to 2024, I americium already looking guardant to sharing much insights, quirks, and lessons from my beingness and enactment with cats. If there’s thing (or someone) you’d similar to cognize much about, get successful interaction utilizing the comments conception below, and I’ll spot what the clowder and I tin enactment out!

Wishing you each a harmless and blessed 2025 from Clutch, Alex, Cyril, Zelda, Zazzles and myself.

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