Cat questions answered

Christmas 1989 was the first Christmas my husband and I spent together as a married couple. Several days before Christmas my husband arrived home from work early carrying a small cardboard box. “It’s an early Christmas present” he said, handing me the box. “But you have to open it very carefully”. Feeling totally baffled I slowly pulled back the lid of the box and there staring up at me was the most beautiful tabby kitten I have ever seen. We called her Jasmine (you can see a photo of her over on the top right of this page) and for almost 19 years she was a much loved part of our family. Around the same time I picked up a book at a charity shop called “Cats… their health and care”. The book was written by a TV vet who had a deep love and understanding of cats, and it is a book I have referred to many times over the years. Although I have been a cat lover for as long as I can remember, what I learnt from this book was to have appreciation and respect for the cat as a species als