Signs of Trouble Ahead Signs of Trouble Ahead By Vicki Totten March 2020 Skipper has become a puzzle to me. His behavior began to change when a new feral cat began showing up across the street at the coffee shop. He became very skittish and would lash out and run away from us….
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Skipper Tales #16
Empty Nesting with a Cat Empty Nesting With a Cat By Vicki Totten Jan. 9, 2020 Apparently I have become an Empty Nester. Again. It has been 13 years since my fiercely independent son left for college, and never really returned except for summer stays and later for short vacations with the family. So I…
Skipper Tales #13
Delving into the Brains of Cats Delving into the Brains of Cats By Vicki Totten Oct. 2018 My cat Skipper turned two this summer. When I first started including him in my writing, he was just a few weeks old and living with us part-time on our sailboat in the harbor. That seems like a…
Skipper Tales #12
Skipper the Misbehaving Cat Skipper the Misbehaving Cat by Vicki Totten August 2, 2018 I have decided that my cat Skipper is a bad influence on other cats. Recently, while my husband and I were enjoying some downtown adventures in Chicago, Skipper decided he needed to have some misadventures of his own. And lately, those…
Skipper Tales #6
Skipper the Boat Cat Gets a Second Chance April 7, 2017 Apparently, being ready to give up and actually doing so are two different things. The last time our cat Skipper was on the boat with us, he boarded other people’s boats and knocked screens out of ports in order to go outside. As a…