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Bravo Recalls Select Lots of Chicken Pet Foods for Cats and Dogs

Bravo Pet Foods of Manchester, CT is recalling select lots of Bravo Chicken pet foods for dogs and cats due to concerns of the possible presence of Salmonella.

The recall was initiated after routine testing by the New York State Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of Salmonella contamination.

The following product is being voluntarily recalled because of the possible presence of Salmonella.

105 cases of this product were sold to distributors, retail stores, internet retailers an...

Review: Dinner PAWsible by Cathy Alinovi, DVM and Susan Thixton

There is no doubt in my mind that processed food is just as bad for our cats as it is for us. Processed foods cause and aggravate inflammation throughout the body. Inflammation is the body’s natural response to healing by bringing an increased immune response to the site of an injury or infection, but when inflammation becomes chronic, it damages the body and causes illness.

Cathy Alinovi, DVM, a holistic veterinarian and owner of Healthy PAWsibilities (formerly Hoofstock Veterinary Services...

Giveaway: RAVPower Luster LED UV Flashlight Pet Stain Detector

This giveaway is sponsored by RAVPower

On Tuesday, we introduced you to the RAVPower Luster LED UV Flashlight, a compact sized 2-in-1 device that can be used to detect hidden urine stains in a dark room. Today, we’re giving away one of these black lights to three lucky readers.

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For up to five ways to enter, see the Rafflecopter widget below. This giveaway is open to readers in the US, Canada and the UK, and ends Th...

How to Keep Roaming Cats Out of Your Yard

Let me preface this post by acknowledging that the issue of whether cats should be kept indoors or allowed to go outside is a hotly debated one, with most people coming down firmly on one side or the other of the debate. I’m a firm believer that all cats should be kept indoors, but I respect the fact that there are not only different points of view, but also cultural differences. In the United States, most cats tend to be kept indoors, whereas cats are allowed outside in most European countr...

Pet-Friendly UV Flashlight Detects Hidden Urine Stains

This post is sponsored by RAVPower

If you’ve ever had a cat who peed outside the litter box, you know how frustrating it can be to completely clean up any residual urine stains. Even though you may think you’ve gotten rid of the stain and the associated odor, your cat may still keep returning to the same spot, because he can still smell it. Cats are attracted back to the same area if there’s even just a very faint residual scent of urine. The best way to make sure that all traces of urine ar...

How to Care for a Blind Cat

Blindness is a partial or total loss of vision. It can be congenital, or occur suddenly as a result of illness or trauma. It can also come on gradually from progressive diseases such as high blood pressure, cataracts, or glaucoma. Since cats are extremely good at compensating and adapting, complete or even partal loss of vision can be challenging to detect.

Signs of vision loss can include any of the following: cloudy, discolored or inflamed eyes large pupils that do not contract when hit b...

Conscious Cat Sunday: Feeling Overloaded

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take
so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. – Erma Bombeck

This past week, I’ve been feeling a little overloaded. The manuscripts for my two new books, Tortitude: The Little Book of Cats With a Big Attitude (due out February 2016) and Purrs of Wisdom: Enlightenment, Feline Style (due out spring 2016) are both due to Mango Media the end of this month. I’m in the final stages of revising,...

Mews and Nips: Can a Cat Run for President?

I’ve always thought that the world might be a much better place if a cat could be president. Limberbutt McCubbins, a five-year-old cat from Louisville, KY, has sumbitted a statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission, along with 477 others (presumably, humans.) High schooler Isaac Weiss, a friend of Limberbutt’s guardian Emilee McCubbins, filed the cat’s statement of candidacy. “It only took us about 20 minutes to fill out the forms, ” Weiss told the Miami Herald. “And it surpri...

Review: Sleepypod Mobile Pet Bed

I’m going to start this review with a confession: I’m embarrassed to admit that Allegra and Ruby are not carrier trained. Partially, this is because they don’t really have to go anywhere. The only time either of them has been in a carrier was the day they came home with me. Our wonderful vet, Andrea Tasi, VMD of Just Cats Naturally, comes to our house for their check ups. Both of the girls are healthy and have never needed anything other than the routine care she provides.

Getting your cat...

Giveaway: Refined Feline Wallet from Triple T Studios, Plus 25% Discount

This giveaway is sponsored by Triple T Studios

This week’s giveaway is both cute and practical. The Refined Feline Wallet features playful cat silhouettes on one side, the other side is a solid color. The wallet is generously sized at 8 inches long, 4 inches wide and 1 inch deep, and features a zipper closure.

It is large enough to hold most cell phones, and features a detachable wrist strap, so it can even double as a small purse. With plenty of card slots and a wider top slot for currency...