Furry Family

the fur never flies around here…

While Cat’s other half is not as furry as their cats and dog, this is the term they use in reference to their household’s inhabitants.

Fiona, our resident collie, was born on 04/04/04 and was one of four female puppies in the litter. She serves as Cat’s consultant on all articles written for Dogs in Canada magazine, and she makes sure Cat actually leaves the house once or twice a day. Fiona has a vocabulary of about 200 English words as well as 1 French and 1 Italian word, and claims to have a higher IQ than Cat. Dogs think they are so clever…

The five cats, Rhiannon, Pushkin, Rosanna, Flower and Willow take up space, snore loudly and eat all of Cat’s profits. Rhiannon is almost 21 years old, a living fossil. Willow is also known as bad Willy (for good reason). Flower speaks several languages fluently and can count to 100. Pushkin does not write poetry. Rosanna, according to most of Cat’s friends, does not exist. Ha. The cats of Cat have manuscript veto power; when a job reaches “the end”, Cat leaves the “MS” on her desk, and if all five do not sit on it within a week: REJECTED.

Cat writes about her pets and always has. She has completed the draft of a mixed-media memoir, entitled Lives Have Nine Cats and Other Tales of Pet Motherhood; this bittersweet book is resplendent with prose, poetry, drawings and photographs that track her life as, first, the sister of two cat siblings, and then as the mother of a stack of dogs and cats. Cat is currently editing the book to final draft and is negotiating with a publisher.