Category Archives: Cats
Cat House on the Kings (Video)
Ever wonder what would happen if you took hundreds of cats and just let them live without cages, without boundaries? I would imagine chaos, destruction, unhealthy animals – basically a situation that required the cats to be rescued and placed in shelters, vet facilities, maybe euthanized to deal with the worst of the worst. And based on [...]
Baby Squirrel Adopted by Cat, Learns to Purr (Video)
This news segment from Mississippi’s WLOX is just about as sweet as it gets.
I hope that puts a smile on your face and steers your Thursday in the right direction!
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Tigertail Foods’ Small Animal Crackers are the perfect treat for little nibblers! If you have a mouse, rat, squirrel (with or without purr-mechanism), hamster, guinea pig [...]
Belgium Proposes Radical Cat Sterilization
Belgium, like the United States, is experiencing a massive overpopulation of cats. Sadly, many felines are unwanted and homeless and end up in shelters where they are eventually euthanized. Last year Belgium, a country of 11 million people and 1.7 million cats, put 13,000 cats to sleep – a number that accounts for one-third of [...]
Cat Saved from Becoming Dinner for Crazy Owner
Navarro, a Buffalo cat, was rescued from the nasty fate of becoming his owner’s dinner when the car he was traveling in failed to stop at a stop sign.
Police pulled over Gary Korkuc, the driver and Navarro’s owner. During the traffic stop the officer heard a cat crying from the trunk and went to investigate. [...]
13 Things You Didn’t Know about Cats
From ReadersDigest.com a list of cool, little known facts about felines:
1. Nose-to-nose greetings between cats are unusual, as it puts both in a vulnerable position. However, cats who know each other well but have been apart for a while feel safe enough to do this to confirm visual recognition and gain information about how the other [...]
Long Beach, CA Enacts Cat License Law
Dog owners know that one legal aspect of having dogs is getting them licensed, and now Long Beach California cat owners have to as well.
The measure has a two-fold purpose – the first is to help get cats that animal control picks up back to their rightful owners and stop the unnecessary euthanasia of pets; the second [...]
Officer Rescues Kitten from Busy Intersection
Indiana Trooper Doug Hutchinson’s job to make the roads safer for everyone. If you were to ask him who is keeping safe he would probably answer motorists, but now he can also say kittens.
It all started with a call of debris in the road at the intersection of SR 37 and Tapp Road, just south [...]
Fido & Fluffy Are So Yesterday
Veterinary Pet Insurance Company for the last two years has compiled the “top 50 wackiest pet names” taken from the company’s client database. The winners for 2009 for the dog and cat were, respectively, Doogie Schnauzer Md and Snag L. Tooth. They have just released the names for the 2010 list.
The dogs:
Pickle Von Corndog
Lord Chubby [...]
Helping Pets Deal with the Summer Heat
Along the east coast summer has been settling in and making it feel a lot more like August than mid-June. As the rest of the country heats up I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone that pets, in particular dogs, have a hard time coping with the unusually high temperatures and [...]
Cats Sum Up “Lost” in 78 Seconds
The final episode of Lost was Sunday night. After 6 seasons of a lot of questions and not a whole lot of answers, the show ended its run true to its enigmatic theme. For those of you who felt like they missed being a part of a larger sociological phenomenon by not watching from beginning to end [...]