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Mews and Nips: Cat Scratch Laptop is the Purrfect Toy for Geeky Cats

Is your cat fascinated with your laptop? Does she try to “help” you work by sitting on the keyboard or pawing at the cursor on the screen? Perhaps she needs the Cat Scratch Laptop, available from a UK-based shopping site – it might just distract kitty long enough so you can actually get some work done. The Cat Scratch Laptop is made from recycled paper and cardboard and comes complete with a “scratch pad keyboard”. There’s even a fluffy toy mouse plugged into a fake USB port. If you want to...

Review: My Pet Human by Yasmine Surovec

From Yasmine Surovec, the creator of Cat Versus Human, comes a new book, My Pet Human*. Aimed at children ages 6 through 10, the book tells the story of Oliver, and independent cat who has the run of his neighborhood and pities his animal friends who share their lives with humans. But when a young girl moves into town, he decides to take this opportunity to train a human.

As Oliver helps the girls adjust to her new home, he realizes that perhaps, he needs her just as much as she needs him.

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Giveaway: Enter to Win a Handmade Ceramic Cat Fountain from Thirsty Cat Fountains

This giveaway is sponsored by Thirsty Cat Fountains

Thirsty Cat Fountains are not just a great way to get your cat to drink more water, they’re also a piece of art. Created and made by ceramic artist Keith Davitt, these fountains are not just absolutely gorgeous, they’re also easy to clean, and come with a 20-year warranty on workmanship and materials, and a 1-year warranty on the pump. With proper care, these fountains will last a lifetime.

You can see all of the current designsatThirstyCat...

September is Happy Cat Month

As cat guardians, we strive to make every month “Happy Cat Month” for our cats, but the Catalyst Council has designated September to celebrate a month that is all about ensuring that cats are happy, healthy, and valued.

Cats are often viewed as self-reliant loners who don’t need much beyond a species appropriate diet, water and a place to sleep, but nothing could be further from the truth. Cats need companionship, environmental enrichment, daily play, and most of all, they need us to love th...

Cats and Emotions

I doubt that any of us need scientific proof that cats can show emotions: all we need to do is look into our feline companions’ eyes to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that they do. Since cats express emotions in different ways than humans, being able to read and interpret feline emotion is a key to understanding cats better, and to preventing and correcting behavior problems.

The question whether cats feel emotion has become a much debated topic among feline behaviorists and scientists. T...

Weight Loss Tips for Cats

A survey conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity in 2012 found that a staggering 58% of America’s cats are overweight or obese. These statistics mirror the equally disturbing increase in human obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than one third of adults in the United States are obese.

The serious health problems in cats which result from obesity are the same as in humans:

Diabetes Arthritis, joint problems and and torn or strained ligaments Heart and respiratory...

Giveaway: Feline Philosophy Bracelet, 20% Discount for Conscious Cat Readers

This giveaway is sponsored by Triple T Studios

We’re taking a break from our regular Conscious Cat Sunday feature to bring you a wonderful giveaway from Triple T Studios. Our usual Conscious Cat Sunday columns are all about feline wisdom, one purr at a time. Today, we’re taking a break from our usual Sunday fare to bring you this very special giveaway from Triple T-Studios, because it fits in purrfectly with what we’re talking about every Sunday.

Many of the lessons our feline friends teach...

Mews and Nips: A Street Cat Named Bob Comes to the Big Screen

I am so excited that one of my favorite cat books of all time, A Street Cat Named Bob, is coming to the big screen. I fell in love with James Bowen and Bob when the book was first published in 2012, and it has been such a joy to watch the pair’s incredible success over the last few years. Filming for “Bob, The Movie” (a title has yet to be announced) will begin in October. The part of James will be played by British actor Luke Treadaway. It’s still a mystery who will play Bob, although when...

Vesper Cat Furniture Now Widely Available

The Vesper Cat Furniture line from Hagen is quite possibly the most beautiful line of cat furniture I’ve seen, and I see a lot of cat furniture. We reviewed the V-Base model earlier this year and gave it our sought after Conscious Cat Seal of Approval. The girls use this gorgeous piece of cat furniture every single day. When we wrote the review, Vesper was still a little difficult to find, but it is now widely available.

The entire line offers the purrfect combination of beautiful design,...

Allegra’s World: It’s my 6th Birthday

I’m six years old today! Mom says she can’t believe how fast the time has gone by. She says it seems like it was just yesterday that she met me for the first time.

Allegra, the day I met her

I can’t wait to see what Mom and Ruby have planned for me today!

Ruby: Will there be tuna?

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