Adventures with Astrid

On today's adventure, Astrid decided to take you all to one of her favorite parks.

We went from being in a drought a few weeks ago to now getting rain almost daily. That means the grass is green, and wet, and Astrid finds it very tasty.

Astrid had just been told to stop eating the grass in the above photo. You can clearly see the guilt on her face, can't you? That's probably why she immediately went back to eating it after that photo was snapped. Astrid has been a grass eater since puppyhood. She has full bowls of food at home, and we often take water on our walks, which she refuses to drink. She'd simply rather munch on grass on her walks. Yum.

Happy Wednesday, friends!

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

Today's weird and wacky flashback doodle stars our housemate house panthers, Winky and Toby. 

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Tip of the Day

We're still in the midst of our series of tips all about decorating your home around your furbabies. Today's tip on that topic involves protecting your furniture from kitty claw. After all, cats have claws. That's simply part of who they are. That being said, that doesn't mean there aren't safe, humane ways of protecting your furniture from those claws.

To begin, of course place cat scratchers throughout your house in order to give your cat appropriate places to use their claws. Cats often like to scratch as a more or less territorial display, so make sure that at least some of their scratchers are somewhere visible and in the open. You can also place a scratcher near any furniture to which your furbaby's claws gravitate. This way, your kitty can have an appropriate scratching location where you can immediately redirect them should they begin to use the furniture instead.

We've mentioned this next idea in another tip, but we'll say it again. To protect your furniture from cat claws while also giving your cat a proper place to scratch, you can wrap sisal rope around furniture legs, rails of staircases, and other similar locations. Again, this not only protects those home features from cat claws, but also simultaneously gives your cat another appropriate place to use their claws. Another potential form of protection against cat claws for your furniture is a heavy-duty couch or chair cover.

As we said above, cats indeed have claws. Those claws are simply part of who they are. While those claws can sometimes find their way to furniture, there are proper ways to combat this. Simply research types of scratchers for your kitty to use, create your own scratchers using sisal rope, or find another way to protect the furniture while also treating your kitty and their claws in a humane way. When your kitty scratches furniture, calmly redirect them to a proper cat scratcher, so that they can learn where they should and should not sharpen those claws of theirs. Of course, also don't forget to regularly trim your kitty's nails.