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Sunday Quotes: Light at the End of the Tunnel

This past week, for the first time in almost a year, I really started to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not a train heading for us.

Even amid the solemn remembrances of the more than 500,000 lives lost, there were increasing signs of hope for a brighter future. New infections and deaths are down, vaccinations are up, and it feels like the pandemic coming to an end is now more a question of when rather than if.

And while we have no way of knowing what that end...

Mews and Nips: “Suspicious Package” Turns Out to Be Cat With Kittens

When a bomb squad in Ohio was called to investigate a suspicious package outside a church, they were surprised to find a mom and her six one-day old kittens in the duffel bag. The little family was taken to a shelter, where they were cleaned up and fed, and they have since been taken to a foster home. For more on this story, visit Today.com.

If you missed any of the stories featured on the Conscious Cat this week, here’s a recap: on Sunday, I talked about how to cope with hitting the pandemic ...

Meet Sleepyod Spokesmodel Summer

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Many of you may know Summer from her website Summer’s Fabulous Cat Life.  This gorgeous Somali is a busy girl! Blogger, therapy cat, ambassador and actress – these are just a few of Summer’s jobs. She’s also the feline spokesmodel for Sleepypod.

The stunning seven-year-old was born to be a star. Her full name is RW GP Tajhara Summer Samba. She is an award winning show cat whose happy, friendly disposition made her an ideal candidate for both therapy cat wor...

Tailspring Milk Replacer for Kittens

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Kitten season is just around the corner, so this is the purrfect time to tell you about Tailspring, a new goat milk based milk replacer for neonatal kittens.

About Tailspring

Tailspring milk replacers come from Meyenberg, a well-known goat milk dairy brand. They are based in Northern California and have been making goat milk products since 1934. They’ve always known that people weren’t the only ones enjoying their products, and that they’ve been used for an...

Darwin’s Raw Cat Food: A Perennial Favorite at Our House

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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.

I started feeding Darwin’s about five years ago, and it has become a perennial favorite.

Darwin’s Natural Pet Food

There are so many things to lik...

Review: FAT CAT Lappy Toppy Cat Mat

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Even though I have a laptop, I primarily use it for travel and prefer using my desktop for work. I’m pretty sure Allegra feels shortchanged because of this. After all, she frequently sees photos of other cats sitting or sleeping on laptop keyboards! But now, thanks to the FAT CAT® Lappy Toppy, she has her very own laptop!

Lappy Toppy features

The Lappy Toppy is made from durable canvas and filled with fluffy foam and organic catnip. You can lay it down flat,...

Tortie Holds Guinness World Record for Most Tricks Performed in One Minute

8-year-old tortie Alexis, who lives in Vienna, Austria with her human Anika Moritz, a feline behaviorist and trainer. Alexis holds the Guinness World Record for most tricks performed by a cat in one minute. Alexis performed 26 tricks in that period of time!

Anika has had Alexis since she was a kitten and started training her at just 12 weeks old. According to Anika, Alexis is trusting, loves to cuddle, but also appreciates her freedom. Anika believes Alexis is her “once in a lifetime cat”. “We...

Sunday Quotes: Hitting the Wall

Pandemic wall: a particular, often sudden feeling, of emotional and spiritual exhaustion in the time of Covid. The term was popularized by New York public radio host Tanzina Vega, but the term “hitting the wall” originated in endurance sports such as running or cycling, and is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy.

I think I hit my pandemic wall late January. At the start of the year, I felt a sense of relief that we finally left 2020 behind, and surely things were going to get bet...

Mews and Nips: A History of the Mysterious Lives of White House Cats

While cat lovers wait with mouse-baited breath to find out whether President and First Lady Biden will adopt a cat to join Champ and Major as First Pets, the Washington Post ran a fun piece this week looking back at the long history of cats in the White House. From Abraham Lincoln’s cats to Socks Clinton, cats from both parties have inhabited the White House for centuries. The article shares wonderful photos and anecdotes, including the time when Mysty Malarky Ying Yang Carter made a grand ent...

Review: The Spirit of Animal Healing

Dr. Marty Goldstein is a holistic veterinarian who has spent 45 years in general practice and who is one of the leading voices in integrative veterinary medicine. In The Spirit of Animal Healing: An Integrative Medicine Guide to a Higher State of Well-being, Dr. Goldstein provides readers with comprehensive information to keep their pets healthy and prevent disease instead of just treating them when they get sick.

Topics covered include:

Nutrition and supplementsIntegrative remedies and harm...