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A Smarty Cat Answers Your Pets' QuestionsI am a fabulous female Sufi, caught between two worlds! I love my person and my kitty brother and enjoy playing indoors with them -- but when I go outside (only when Mom supervises) the wild cat in me takes over! I prowl, pace, roam and constantly wander, looking for prey. I can't sit still and will search to the ends of the earth to find a chipmunk and his siren song! I know my person is worried about my compulsive behavior and restless spirit. She doesn't want to confine me and I don't want that either, but she's very concerned about my safety. Can you help me find some balance between my tame and wild sides?
Purr-ociously,
Dear Gibby, Vervain might be of benefit for your over-enthusiasm for the outdoors, and would also help with your high-strung hi-jinks. Impatiens is another option for your boundless exploratory energy and raucous race-tracking around the house. If your precocious propensity for prowling is compulsively-obsessing you, White Chestnut would be just the thing, and Scleranthus may provide you with the purr-ecious balance between your oft-colliding calm and carnivorous worlds! You'll find that you can still have a cats-eye-view of the world from the cat-bird seat -- without the bird becoming a feast!!!
Tantalizingly,
Dear Tabby: In the middle of the night, I can wake my dad up by jumping on him. Except that he's not really awake at all! But he goes to the refrigerator, gets out my favorite food, and then FEEDS ME AN EXTRA MEAL WITHOUT REALIZING WHAT HE'S DOING. He goes back to bed and never remembers in the morning what happened. The other night, my mom woke up when he got out of bed and she saw what he was doing. She asked him to stop, but he was under my hypnotic spell so much that he insisted on feeding me anyway. The next morning he didn't remember a thing about feeding me or about their conversation (those post-hypnotic suggestions work really great, don't they?).
Pleased as punch she's been getting away with it,
Dear Pee-Jay, Lest I call you manipulative or opportunistic (quintessential kitty characteristics!), let's see if we can't find some Bach Flower Essences to take the edge off your evening epicurean escapades. Since your devious delinquency is a bit self-absorbed, your Mom might consider slipping some Heather into your sipping saucer. Vine may also assist you to discontinue your daily (or nightly) Dad-domination! If you were just a bit more conciliatory, I might suggest Pine for the guilt you'd feel over your poor Dad's nocturnal negligence, but I suspect guilt is probably the very last thing on your mercenary and mercurial mind! My guess is that once Mom slips Dad some White Chestnut to negate his nightly navigating, you'll need some Walnut to adjust to this dramatic dietary digression, and you might want to throw in some Honeysuckle to help you let go of the past cache of covert cuisine memories that you'll be hissin' about missin'. Look at it this way -- you may be musing melancholy over your missed midnight munchies -- but you'll be a fat-cat no more! Your slim, trim, feline façade will be the cat's meow!
TASTE-fully,
Dear Tabby,
Help!
Dear Tikka,
In the meantime, the Bach Flower Essence Cherry Plum is purr-fect for the loss of control you're experiencing... bladder and otherwise. If, on the other hand, you find you're a bit resentful toward your incom-purr-able companions, or your humans think you're feeling a bit spiteful by urinating on their property, Willow is your best (cat) call as it will soften those malicious tendencies. If jealousy's your game, then Holly's the name.... it'll help with that 'hatred' to which you refer, as well. Finally, it's entirely paw-sible that you're just intolerant of your kitty kin. If that's the case, try Beech... instead of being one! Leave that to the dogs!! It's sooooooo unbecoming for a Bengal kitty to be catty, even when they're driving you batty!! And Tikka, they don't hate you because you're beautiful. They're just trying to figure out what makes you Tik - ka!!
Tempestuously, PS: Oh, and Chestnut Bud might be helpful right now for helping you to break the nasty habit of not using your litter box. And there's an added benefit: if you can slip some to your humans, it might just help them break the habit of leaving those tempting towels within your reach!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dear Tabby is a feckless feline who learned that one of our authors, Kris Lecakes-Haley, was having tuna for lunch, and moved right in. Tabby has somehow been convinced to earn her keep and, now that she's learned how to type, is available to answer your pet's questions.
DESIGN CREDITS: The background was especially created for us by Word of Mouth Web Design. Cat cartoons courtesy of Art Today.
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Ah, the wild wiles of wanderlust; I remember them well! That is, before my person helped me with some Bach Flower Essences to help prevent my promiscuous, primitive, predatory pilgrimages.
I think she mostly sleeps deep enough that I can keep getting away with this for a while more. But I'm afraid she's onto me: what if she starts hiding the food at night? Or maybe she'll be able to stop him next time before the food hits my dish. Are there some flower essences I can give her to keep her from interfering with my midnight
snack?
Think back to when your dilemma began. If all was co-purr-cetic for
almost two years, what happened after that initial purr-iod of calm to
rattle your cage? Think hard; there's usually something, and if we can
lasso that fat cat, your nightmares will come to a screeching halt! If you remember anything im-paw-tant, swat it my way!