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Happy Cats Café and Trattoria: A Unique Cat Café Experience

Cat cafés have become fairly common around the world, but I still took note when I saw a recent report about one opening in my hometown. Happy Cat’s Café and Trattoria opened in Stuttgart, Germany in February. After reading a report about the café, I just had to find out more about it and got in touch with owner Daniel Di Stefano.

Daniel’s wife Miya is from China, where cat cafés are plentiful. The couple have 13 cats. Daniel was looking for a less stressful job, so he and Miya decided to “mak...

Giveaway: Win 20 Pounds of Darwin’s Raw Cat Food for Your Cat and for Your Favorite Rescue or Shelter

This giveaway is sponsored by Darwin’s Natural Pet Products*

Embraced for decades by holistically oriented pet parents and holistic veterinarians, raw feeding is becoming more and more mainstream as cat parents look for alternatives to feeding highly processed commercial pet foods. I’ve been feeding raw for the past ten years, and have seen my cats thrive on it. For the past five years, I’ve been feeding Darwin’s, and it has become a perennial favorite.

Darwin’s Natural Pet Food

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Petlibro Stainless Steel Fountain: Exclusive 20% Discount

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We reviewed the Petlibro Automatic Capsule Fountain earlier this year and featured it again last week, when we announced that it comes in new fun colors, along with a 20% discount. Today, we’re featuring Petlibro’s stainless steel fountain, since many of you expressed interest in it.  The two main things I look for in a fountain are that it needs to be easy to clean and easy to operate, but I also want it to look good and be quiet. While we haven’t had a cha...

Your Cat’s DNA Can Help Scientists Better Understand Chronic Kidney Disease

This is a sponsored guest post by Carolina Gonzales, R&D Coordinator at Basepaws*

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major feline health issue affecting approximately one in 30 cats. It often goes undiagnosed until the illness reaches a more advanced stage. The set of signs and symptoms of CKD are caused by a progressive degeneration of functional kidney tissue. Although we do not know the exact cause of CKD, the disease progression can be slowed down with proper care and your cat can live a ha...

How the Assisi Loop Helps Archie With Hind Limb Paralysis

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Archie was rescued when he was five weeks old. “We got a plea from the shelter about a kitten with hind limb paralysis that would be euthanized if not pulled by a rescue,” said Carol Gonzales, the Director of Baby Kitten Rescue in Los Angeles, CA.  “We quickly realized he was not completely paralyzed in his back legs and had some use of them, even though he mostly dragged them to get around.”

Archie saw many vets and specialists. Radiographs confirmed a congenital mal...

Sunday Quotes: Information Detox

I limit my news intake to a bare minimum. I never watch TV news. I try to only check my trusted news sources once a day, twice at the most. But even with all those limitations, I still struggle with the constant flow of information. Whether it’s “just a quick peek” at a news site, or scrolling through my social media feed, I find that the energy from all that negativity affects the rest of my day far too much.

I’ve previously  mentioned how much of a difference Katie Krimitsos and her Women’s ...

Mews and Nips: More Than 30 People Helped Rescue a Cat Stuck in a Tree for Five Days

If ever there was a story that restores your faith in humanity, it was the story of Hank, a 1-year-old cat in Washington, DC, who got stuck on top of a 60 foot tree. More than 30 people came together to get him down, including the Humane Rescue Alliance, fire fighters, a tree service, and countless neighbors. In the end, ropes and a contraption that shot a bean bag into the tree and looped some string around a branch and maneuvered a small crate with some special items inside in place did the ...

Basepaws Christmas Sale: Up to $100 Off DNA Tests and Free Toy With Every Order

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For the entire month of December, Basepaws is offering deep discounts on their Breed and Health Test, Dental Health Test  and Whole Genome Sequencing test. While it may seem a bit odd to think of a DNA test as a holiday gift, it’s really a gift for both you and your cat. It will tell you about your cat’s genetic make up and identify potential health issues so you can be proactive about them.

How it works

A Basepaws Cat DNA test provides all that and more, a...

Darwin’s Intelligent Design: Raw Food to Support Cats with Kidney Disease

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If you’ve followed us for a while, you already know that we’re big fans of Darwin’s raw food. It’s Allegra’s favorite, and we like everything about this food. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a unique offering in the raw food market: Darwin’s Intelligent Design™, a raw prescription diet for cats with kidney disease.

The right diet for cats with kidney disease

There’s so much misinformation out there about what...

Allegra’s World: Chasing the Lights

Hi everyone, it’s Allegra! I want to tell you about my new favorite game! It’s called “Chasing Lights.” There are a couple of different ways I play it, but my favorite way is when Mom makes rainbow colored lights dance all over the living room. It’s so fun to try to catch them!

Mom says they happen when she makes a little crystal prism that hangs in our window swing. The lights move super super fast, and then they slow down, and then they speed up again. It’s so cool!

Another way I can play ...