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Dear Sars,
So, here’s the deal. I know you’re not a lawyer, but I thought you might have some information since you have so much experience with cats.
My boyfriend Joe and I had been considering getting …
Dear Sars,
No big serious problem here, but as a fellow cat-mom, I thought you
might be able to answer a question for me. We’ve had four female cats for
nearly ten years, and have just recently adopted …
Oh wise Sars,
Hi, love the site, and I think your advice generally rocks, so here goes. I have a problem that I don’t quite know how to deal with. You see, there was this guy. …
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I have a problem worthy of Sars’s
attention!
In a nutshell, we have two neurotic cats, both indoor/outdoor and much
calmer for it. We’re in a pretty quiet neighborhood, with the
exception of neighborbullybitchcatfromhell, …
My grandfather had an expression he used to use, he used to take us into town on Saturdays and let us pick out candy while he got his papers and tobacco, and when we took …
Hey Sars,
I have a grammar question for you, and one that I
thought was
particularly
appropriate since you also read Vanity Fair.
I’m a
bit of a newbie to
VF.
My roommate just got a subscription, and it’s like
crack — I cannot …
Hi there,
I have obtained a cat as part of a package deal — he came with the
girlfriend. Said feline was very much an outdoor cat, hunting down and
killing all sorts of things, in spite of …
Sars,
I am concerned about my cat, Dinah. She is five years old, very intelligent
and, up until a year ago, very sweet. Ours has always been a multi-cat
household and, although Dinah has never really been friends …
It’s a much different world now from when I started out. I don’t envy the ones who came after me. In my day, hitchhiking wasn’t how everyone thinks of it now — nobody thought it …
Hi, Sars —
In response to Linsay, whose cat is licking all her fur off — my cat
Splinky had a compulsive licking problem also, to the point that she
licked the fur off her feet, and then …