THE MINDFUL PAUSE To access the podcast click on the title These days most of us spend a lot of our lives rushing around. It is a bit like being on one of those hamster exercise wheels – constant motion. We want everything to happen right away. We want to see results right away, and [...]
The other day a friend who is about to move house asked me if I had any tips on what to do with her cat so that she would not run away and try to return to their previous house. She had been told that she would have to keep the cat shut up for [...]
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We are all familiar with the expression “Oculi speculum animae”, the eyes are the mirror of the soul. When we look at another person’s eyes, we can tell a great deal about how that person is feeling at that moment: calm, afraid, angry, sad, depressed, disbelieving… and this information helps us modulate our approach. [...]
Mummy cat has been with us for 13 years, but we don’t know how old she is because she was already an adult when she arrived. Her arrival was quite dramatic. She appeared one Saturday morning when I was not at home. She walked decisively into the sitting-room and sat on my husband’s lap. He [...]
Sometimes things we do with the best of intentions turn into a problematic situation. When the little feral cat turned up on our doorstep in the midst of torrential rain, providing her with food and shelter seemed like the right thing to do. The consequences of this decision have been far-reaching. Then she had her [...]
Those of you who have been following my journey with the two horses who were abandoned at our place may remember that they are not at all happy to be touched. This, of course, poses major challenges and has been a source of concern. From time to time, Arena, the mare, has been limping but, [...]
19/08/2022 Yesterday Squeaky went into one of the travelling crates by herself and I was able to close the door. Until then she had only put her head and shoulders inside to reach the dish with food but yesterday I pushed the dish to the back of the crate. Of course, when she realised that [...]
When Squeaky had her babies, she showed all the guile and skill needed for a feral cat to survive. We searched high and low but were unable to discover where she had hidden her kittens. We found the box where they were born, but she had moved them by then. In fact, we though they [...]