Saturday, October 17, 2009

House Cats' House Calls

Cat owners nationwide have by now, I'm sure, seen the TV show House Cats House Calls. The host of the show is Aussie vet "Dr. Katrina" and she consults two other featured vets for her cases. Being owners of four cats, my husband and I watch this show regularly not just to admire the cats belonging to other people but to find a solution to a major problem among our cats. We must have watched 10 or more episodes and each episode consisted of three "cases".

To date, however, the show has failed to present a difficult problem such as ours which involves three of our four cats spraying in various parts of our house. All the cases in this show are very easy to solve and invariably in every case Dr. Katrina recommends a kitty condo or a tree and some toys and presto, case solved.

Animal Planet has a much better show called "Barking Mad". Produced in Britain, the show does not concentrate only on correcting behavioral problems of the felines species but those of other animals as well. But when it does make a house call for a house cat or cats, the show makes the bold effort to tackle the most challenging issues faced by the cat owner/s.