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June 24, 2013
Giveaway: Adopt-a-Cat Month Gift Pack from the ASPCA
The ASPCA is doing its part to help find forever homes for cats during Adopt-a-Cat month (and every month). To help celebrate cat adoption, they have offered to give a special Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat gift pack to one lucky reader!
The gift pack contains:
an”I Love My Shelter Cat” jumbo tote
a bag of Popchips Katy Perry’s Kettle Corn
a cute cat hat
anASPCA orange wrist band
anASPCA keychain flashlight
an ASPCA.ORG logo magnet
a Catster litter scooper
Enter to win – one day only!
To enter this giveaway, plea...
June 23, 2013
New Discovery Offers Hope Against Deadly FIP Virus
FIP are the three worst letters a cat guardian can hear. Feline Infectious Peritonitis is caused by a coronavirus and affects the cells of the intestinal tract. The corona virus in itself is a common virus in cats, and cats may not even show symptoms other than perhaps a mild gastrointestinal upset. But for reasons that have eluded researchers so far, in some cats, the benign virus mutates into a highly infectious version that then causes FIP. It usually affects kittens and young cats, and it...
June 22, 2013
Conscious Cat Sunday: The Art of Relaxation, Feline Yogi Style
Guest post by Pippy
People often ask me “Pippy what is your secret for always being so relaxed and calm while running a yoga cat mat business and keeping your humans in line?” First of all,I am acat and by nature we are relaxed and calm. For those of you of the human species, it will take a bit more work, but I am happy to share some of my secrets. I am after all a Feline Yogini and this is my area of expertise!
I practice yoga poses and breathing exercises several times throughout each day on...
June 21, 2013
Mews and Nips: Feline Crossing Guard Keeps School Children Safe
A crossing guard who makes sure that school kids get to school safely each day is nothing unusual – but when that crossing guard is a cat, it becomes news. Each morning, 15-year-old Sable comes out like clockwork tohelp students at Enterprise Middle Schoolcross the street. Sable is owned by Tamara Morrison. She says one day, Sable just walked outside to greet the students, and he’s been doing it ever since.” Read the full story and watch a video of Sable at work on Army Kitty.
It looks like ca...
Garden Flag Winner
Congratulations, Nancy Blue Moon! You’re the winner of a cat garden flag from Portraits of Animals!
Look for an e-mail from Ingrid*.
*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.
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June 20, 2013
Review: Fifth Life of the CatWoman by Kathleen Dexter
About a year ago, Kathleen Dexter posted a comment on what, with more than 12,000 comments,is arguably the most popular thread on this site, Tortitude: The Unique Personality of Tortoiseshell Cats. She mentioned that several years ago, she wrote a novel featuring a tortoiseshell cat. At the time, the book was out of print. When Fifth Life of theCatWomanwasre-released last month, the author sent me a review copy. Of course I was intrigued – any book featuring a tortieis going to get my interes...
June 19, 2013
Review and Giveaway: Through A Cat’s Ear: Music for Calming
I was very excited when I first heard about Through a Cat’s Ear, which combines music and sound therapy techniques, specifically designed for feline anxiety. This is not just simple relaxation music.
Why Through a Cat’s Ear is different from other relaxation music
Composer, music producer and sound researcher Joshua Leeds has been studying psychoacoustics—the effect of music and sound on human beings—since 1986. In 2003, concert pianist Lisa Spector inquired about adapting human sound therapy f...
June 18, 2013
Changing a Cat’s Name
T.S. Elliott had it right in his famous poem: the naming cats is a difficult matter! Some of our cats come to us already named, and we keep the name because it suits, or because the cat already responds to it. Others come with names we don’t like, so we choose a new name for them. Either way, most cat parents put a lot of thought into naming a cat. And some wonder whether it’s a good idea to change a cat’s name, especially if the cat is an adult who responds to her given name.
Allegra came to...
New Natura Pet Food Recall Includes Several Dry Cat Food Brands
Natura Pet Products is voluntarily recalling specific lots of dry pet food because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
Salmonella can affect animals eating the products and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or any surfaces exposed to these products.
Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for some or all of the following s...
June 17, 2013
Review: SmartCat Ultimate Scratching Post from MyThreeCats.Com
When MyThreeCats.com asked whether we’d like to review the SmartCat Ultiate Scratching Post, I jumped at the chance. Allegra and Ruby love sisal scratchers, and I was impressed with the description of this particular scratching post:
32″ height allows cats to stretch fully and tone muscles -I think this is very important for cats. Most scratching posts are not tall enough to allow for a true stretch.
Sturdy 16″ by 16″ base eliminates tipping and wobbling. Too many scratching posts tip over much...
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