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How to Keep Your Indoor Cat Happy

There’s no question that indoor cats live longer, healthier lives. To ensure that they also live happy lives, it is imperative that cat guardians provide a stimulating environment. Jackson Galaxy has coined the term “catification” for this purpose. Catification, as defined by Jackson, means creating a cat-friendly environment that provides outlets for a cat’s natural instincts to hunt, catch, kill and eat his prey, followed by grooming and sleeping.

I think it’s no accident that Jackson and Ka...

Review: Peach Industries Kitty Lounger

I love products that combine function with design – especially when it comes to cat products. The Peach Industries Kitty Lounger was what happened when an industrial designer married an animal crazy registered veterinary technician. Mike and Georgia Barbush, like so many pet guardians, found it challenging to maintain a sleek asthetic amid all the toys, scratchers and beds. That’s why they decided to turn their home into a design-conscious heaven of pet comfort and entertainment.

I was delight...

Can You Trust Cat Food Labels?

Pet food labels should be a useful tool to help cat guardians decide which foods to select. Unfortunately, unless you know how to interpret the often confusing information on the labels, they may only add to the confusion. I’ve previously written about how to read a pet food label, but it turns out that you may not be able to trust the information on the label.

Study identifies mislabeled pet food

Researchers in Chapman University’s Food Science Program have just published a study on pet food...

Conscious Cat Sunday: Life Can Change in an Instant

If I had a dollar for every time somebody said to me “can you believe how fast time goes by?” I’d be rich. And if I had another dollar for every time I think the same thing, I’d be a millionaire. How is it that we are so aware of how fast time passes, and yet we waste so much of it? Why is it that we don’t live every moment as if it were our last – because it quite possibly could be? Life can and does change in an instant.

I’ve recently been reminded of this over and over again. Last month, Lo...

The Adventures of Coco Le Chat Winner

Congratulations, Melissa & Truffles! You’re the winner of a pawtographed copy of The Adventures of Coco Le Chat!

Look for an e-mail from Ingrid*.

*Winner was selected by random drawing. Winners need to provide a physical address to which the prize will be mailed within 72 hours of receipt of notification e-mail. If this information is not received, an alternate winner will be chosen.

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Mews and Nips: Domestic Cats are Better Hunters than Tigers

Those of us who shares our lives with cats don’t doubt that our cats are fierce hunters, even if they only exercise their natural hunting instinct by pouncing on their toys. The Daily Mail reports that a recent study by the Royal Veterinary College in London, England, showed that domestic cats crouch and hunt exactly like their wild cousins. The researchers followed 100 cats fitted with GPS collars. They found that domestic cats may be more powerful hunters since their increased flexibility m...

SmartyKat® Feather Whirl™ Winner – 3 More Chances to Win!

Congratulations, Kathie! You’re the winner of a SmartyKat® Feather Whirl™ !

Look for an e-mail from Ingrid*.

And if you didn’t win this time, don’t worry: you’ll have 3 more chances to win!

Next chance to win a SmartyKat® Feather Whirl™: November 13 !

*Winners were selected by random drawing. Winners need to provide a physical address to which the prize will be mailed within 72 hours of receipt of notification e-mail. If this information is not received, an alternate winner will be chosen.

The pos...

Review: The Story of Fester Cat by Paul Magrs

Ultimately, every cat memoir is a love story. And every cat memoir is a story about how a cat changed someone’s life. This is the case with The Story of Fester Cat: How One Remarkable Cat Changed Two Men’s Lives.

From the publisher:

From when he first ambled into Paul Magrs’s yard—skinny, covered in flea bites, and missing all but one and a half teeth—Fester knew he’d found his family. Paul and his partner, Jeremy, thought it was the ragged black-and-white stray, tired from a rough life on the...

The Nine Lives of Christmas Premieres on Hallmark Channel

I have a confession to make: I have a soft spot for sappy holiday movies, and thanks to the Hallmark Channel, I can indulge this fondness from November 1 through December 31 each year. Most of the movies follow a pretty set pattern, as you would expect from the genre. Occasionally, they’ve featured movies with dogs, but this year, for the first time that I know of, there’s a movie featuring cats. And not just any movie: The Nine Lives of Christmas is based on the book of the same title by She...

Giveaway: Pawful of Toys from MyThreeCats.Com

MyThreeCats.com is an online specialty cat shopping site, offering a variety of designer cat merchandise including cat trees, beds, scratchers, toys, feeding accessories and more. Today, they’ve offered up a super fun giveaway for your kitties: a Pawful of Toys!

The giveaway package, valued at $43, includes the following:

PURRfect™ Feather Bouncer Cat Toy

The PURRfect™ Feather Bouncer Cat Toy was a Cat Fancy Magazine Editor’s Choice Winner. Your cat will jump for joy with this PURRfect combinati...