About Me

Welcome to Cat Problems Resolved. I’m Kathy Robinson and I’ve been a cat lover all my life. That’s me in that picture over there. Thinking back into the dim past, I think I got my first cat when I was seven or eight. She was a tabby called Tiger. She was my baby and would let me put her in my dolls pram (for about 5 seconds). I remember being distraught when I came home from school one day to be told she’d died of cat flu.

My next cat was a beautiful tortoiseshell called Tikki who was so gentle and loving. She only ever had one litter of kittens per year and honored me by having some of them on my bed.  I lost Tikki one day when my parents decided to play a joke on me. Neighbors were looking for a kitten for friends who lived about 10 miles away and that particular litter were a little wild. I was in bed with a very bad dose of the flu. When my parents couldn’t find a kitten, they decided to give the neighbor Tikki, thinking they would not take an adult cat. The neighbors looked over and saw my car and thought I must have agreed to let her go – they knew what a beautiful cat she was. Long story short – I never saw Tikki again, she died trying to get back to me. Needless to say I didn’t speak to my parents for a number of weeks.

I have only had a few cats since then. Simone was a beautiful smoky grey with green eyes who decided not to come with us when we sold our farm and moved to a new town. She watched the packing up process and then went missing the day we left. We tried to find her each time we went back but she had gone wild. She was spayed so she wouldn’t have added to the feral population. I was ‘catless’ for a couple of years while we established ourselves in our new town and built our home.

Cassie

When the time came, I was lucky enough to find another long-haired tortoiseshell which I named Tikki, in honor of the first one. She was also a beautiful cat, and just like her namesake, she gave birth to her final litter in bed with me. I actually woke up to wetness and something moving against me. We kept one of her last litter before spaying for my daughter, although over the years the cats changed allegiance. Tikki became my daughter’s cat and her daughter Cassie became mine. I talk about both cats often in my articles on my website.

Tikki

Sadly I lost both cats last year. Tikki to cancer at age 14 and Cassie to a spider bite six months later. I now have another beautiful cat called Asha. She is a gray and white long hair and is just reaching adulthood. This means she is going through that dreaded teenage stage where she loves me one moment then won’t have anything to do with me the next. Just like many kids! It has been challenging to have a kitten again but exciting in that I have been able to use the same techniques I talk about in my articles for training her. She is also creeping into some of my articles too.

Ok, so who am I? As stated above I’m Kathy Robinson and have reached the wonderfully young age of 61. I have been married to the best guy around for 30 years – and we got engaged 5 days after we met. We have two absolutely gorgeous children – Chris (28) and Julia (25). Both have left home now and moved to the city to live their own lives and I’m loving having the house to just Peter and myself. So much easier to keep clean and the food expenses are well and truly more than halved! Both Chris and Julia come home regularly to stay; this will always be their home. In fact Julia would like us to move out into ‘retirement’ so she and her partner can live here full time. Since my marriage we’ve always lived in a rural setting. Peter was a farmer when we met and for the first 14 years of our marriage, we then shifted to another rural town closer to the city when our children needed secondary schooling that didn’t require them going to boarding school. We didn’t have children to send them away during those critical years; we had them so we could bring them up ourselves. They were more important than the farm so we sold it and have never regretted that decision.

I’ve done a lot in my life, starting work at 16, and working my way up from Junior Office Girl to Personal Assistant to the director of another company by the time I was 18. I’ve worked in offices, in theater, both performing and stage managing, and have also worked as the company’s Public Relations Officer. I resigned from these roles to become a Primary School teacher, something I truly loved. I only gave up teaching because I was starting my own family and that became my priority. When we moved to our current town and the children were old enough, I started working again but this time as assistant editor of our town’s monthly newspaper. After two years I was appointed as editor and wow, what a journey and learning curve! I stayed as editor for 10 years, resigning only because I was finding it hard to work through 24 hour shifts with only a few hours sleep when the computers continually broke down. Age was catching up on me! It was a wonderful period in my life and I not only learned many new things, I met most of the people who lived in my town and made some amazing friends.

Asha

To keep myself busy and my mind active, I decided to start learning about making websites and oh, what another wonderful learning curve. This led to my first website – Cat Problems Resolved which was launched in 2007 to help other cat owners who might be experiencing problems with their own cat. The library has now grown to around 200 articles on nearly every aspect of owning and caring for a cat. I have written every article myself and it has been a labor of love. I’m honored that many of you have asked questions. I answer each of those questions myself as soon as I am able to. Because I don’t have any staff or help-desk, it might take me a day or so to answer. For those of you who have emailed me, I am the one who answers that email.

My promise to you, my readers, is that I will always maintain complete honesty in everything that I write or say, on this website or any other website I own. I will never recommend a product just so I can make some money. I will only recommend products I know will be of use to you or that I own and use myself. I also promise that it will only ever be me who responds to your questions and emails. That’s something I could never delegate. If I’m asked a question and I’m not sure of the answer, I’ll always research it to make sure you get the correct information. I’m only human and I don’t know everything.

Please, look around and if you don’t find what you need, either ask a question via the comments or email me at kathy.robkat@gmail.com. Remember, it will be me that answers it.

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