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Mews and Nips Special Animal Planet Edition

Instead of our usual round up of the week’s best cat stories, I have a special treat for you today. Animal Planet just launced a new interactive web experience known as Animal Planet L!VE, which streams live feeds of various animals 24/7, and of course, this includes a Kitten Cam!

The Kitten Cam features adoptable cats from theWashington Animal Rescue League. Currently,you can see a beautiful tortie mom in the roomto bring you daily kitten cuteness by way of an adorabe live cam.

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CapThat Custom Print Winner

Congratulations, Lydia Guzman! You’re the winner of a custom canvas or wood print from CapThat!

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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National Hairball Awareness Day 2013

Today is National Hairball Awareness Day, and you’ll see a lot of information about hairballs, hairball remedies, and so-called hairball diets online. Hairballs are often thetopic of jokes and cartoons, but there is nothing funny about a cat who gets frequent hairballs. While the occasional, isolated hairball may be nothing to worry about, there really is no such thing as “just a hairball.”

I’d like to offer some information on hairballs that you may find startling, and to shed some light on w...

Review: Skinny the Cat and the Magic of Kindness by Donna Rawlins

Cats can teach us a lot of things, including how to make the world a better place. In Skinny the Cat and the Magic of Kindness, Donna Rawlins shares the story of a neighborhood cat who wins her heart.

From the publisher:

When Skinny, a neighbor’s scrawny rescue cat, sets out to win the affection of the author’s own cantankerous kitty, at first the fur flies-but Skinny knows a secret that can change the world: how to love with unwavering persistence. For weeks, Skinny faithfully showed up at the...

Giveaway: O-Duster Robotic Floor Cleaner

How many times have you vacuumed or dusted and the thought crossed your mind of how nice it would be to have a robot who could do that for you? There are quite a few robotic floor cleaners available, but the price tag of several hundred dollars makes them prohibitive for a lot of people. Now there’s a new player on the market: O-Duster™. At $39.99, available from Amazon and other online retailers, robotic floor cleaning is now affordable for everyone.

I was sent one of these to test, but it to...

Natura Pet Food Expands Recall To Include All Dry Foods

Natura Pet Food, the makers of Innova, EVO, California Natural,Healthwise and Karma brands,expanded its previous recall of multiple lots ofseveral of their dry cat food brands due to possible contamination with salmonella.

The recall now includes ALLNatura dry cat, dog and ferret food and treats that have expiration dates on or before March 24, 2014.

Click here for the full recall notice from Natura.

For more information, and to find out how to return affected products, contact Natura athttp://w...

Do You Remember Your First Cat?

I’d venture that most of us can remember the cat that started it all: the one cat that launched us on the path of loving cats. For some, it may be a childhood cat, for others, it may be a more recent, and unexpected feline who decided that it was time for the human to share her life with a cat, or two or three.

I didn’t get myfirst catuntil I was in my twenties. I was not allowed to have pets as a child; the apartment building I grew up in would not permit them, but I would temporarily adopt c...

Weruva Cat Food Review

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If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I’m passionate about species-appropriate nutrition for cats. Cats are obligate carnivores, and they need meat not only to survive, but to thrive. The optimal diet for a cat is a properly formulated raw, home-cooked or grain-free canned diet. Cats shouldn’t eat dry food; even the grain-free dry varieties are too high in carbohydrates.

You can find many of the articles I’ve written about this topic in the Feline Nutrition section rig...

RenAvast: A Solution for Chronic Renal Failure in Cats?

During a recent visit to my vet’s home to do a Reiki sessionfor 17-year-old Fifi,who is inrenal failure, my vet mentioned that she is giving Fifi a new supplement called RenAvast™, and that she was really pleased with the results. I wanted to find out more about this supplement. What I learned impressed me enough to introduce you to it.

Physiology of Chronic Renal Failure

Chronic renal failure in cats is a physiological condition in which the kidneys have lost some degree of functional capacity...

Conscious Cat Sunday: Appreciate Life in the Face of Darkness

In the wake of the Boston bombings, many of us are still struggling with processing the horror of what happened, sharing the collective grief of a nation whose peace was once again disrupted by an act of terrorism, and trying to make sense of something that is completely senseless. Even people who were thousands of miles away from Boston, and who weren’t worried about family or friends, found themselvesfilled with sorrow and hopelessness about a world where these tragedies can happen.

How do y...