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Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation Sponsors Pet First Aid Classes

Published on June 9, 2011 in animal welfare, cats, dog, events, pet and animal information

Is there anything sadder than losing the companionship of your pet to death? “Yes,” according to Deb Chebatoris, owner of Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation. “When I need to work with a family whose young, healthy pet has succumbed to an accidental death, it is a double tragedy.” Not only does

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Tags: cats, chartiers custom pet cremation, dogs, pet first aid, pet health care, pets

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Urgent: Can You Foster a Mom and Three Kittens?

Published on May 20, 2011 in animal welfare, cats, fostercat, fostering pets

Meet tabby Momcat and her three lovely tabby children! She’s looking for a nice foster home where she can raise her children and stay until all are adopted with assistance from FosterCat. We need to know ASAP. Right now she’s at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, but the shelter is

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Tags: cats to foster, fostercat, homeless cats, mother cat and kittens, western pennsylvania humane society

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Living With Your Grown-up Children on Mother’s Day…

Published on May 8, 2011 in animal welfare, black cats, cat behavior, cat photographs, cat stories, cats, mewsette, mimi, mimi's children, my household of felines, photographs

Well, I did enjoy having children until I moved here and saw the light—with a little help from my human mom, of course—but they always went away when I was done with them. Now it appears I’m stuck living with them for the rest of our lives. Sometimes they are

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Tags: black cats, cat photographs, cats, cats on mother's day, feline photographs, mimi the cat, pet photography, photography

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Small Feral Colony Needs Rescue in Mt. Lebanon

Published on May 5, 2011 in animal welfare, cats, feral cats

A link to this e-newsletter was passed on down the line to me from friends in FosterCat. A kind and generous person has been caring for a group of outdoor cats but is moving and isn’t sure if they’ll survive without the assistance of a human. I’ve also seen small

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Tags: best friends animal society, cats, cats in need, feral cats, feral colony, mt. lebanon colony of cats

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NEEDED: Oxygen Concentrator for a Dog

Published on April 28, 2011 in animal welfare, dog, pets

Crawford is an 18 year old dog with a collapsing trachea. He can greatly benefit from the use of a concentrator. Please notify if you know of one that can be purchased second hand at a reasonable price. These are often used when humans have a home oxygen service as

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Tags: animal medical equipment, dog, dog health, dog with collapsing trachea, oxygen concentrator

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El Puzzle Natural, a New Friend from Spain

Published on April 17, 2011 in animal artists and illustrators, animal artwork, animal welfare, cat artwork, cats, cookie, tortoiseshell cats

Thanks to “The Goddess” through sales of the Tortie Girls tees to benefit Japanese animals after the earthquake and tsunami, we met a new friend and a wonderful connection with a group of people who love and assist animals in Barcelona, Spain. Before the internet allowed greater communication, many of

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Tags: animal welfare, cats, feral cats in spain, japanese earthquake, jardinets dels gats, spanish cats

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A Special Book Signing with Ingrid King of The Conscious Cat

Published on April 12, 2011 in animal welfare, books, books about cats dogs and animals, cat writers association, cats

On Sunday I took off for Falls Church, Virginia with a person I’d never met before to get together with a bunch of other people I’d met on the internet. Sounds like the sort of thing they tell you not to do, but I happened to know that each of

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Tags: book signing, buckleys story, cats, ingrid king, stray cat cafe, the conscious cat

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Little Orange Kitten

Published on March 31, 2011 in adopting a kitten, animal welfare, cats, cats adopted, kittens, rescue cats

So I decided to see how an orange cat looked in all that mint green and white in the bathroom in addition to all those black cats. Actually, he was staging a safe place under the spruce in front of my house, but was running back and forth across the

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Tags: cats, found kitten, ginger kitten, orange kitten, pets, stray kitten

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We Really Are Helping Our Friends in Japan!

Published on March 15, 2011 in animal artwork, animal welfare, cat artwork, cookie, kelly, linoleum block print, natural disasters, portraits of animals shop, tortoiseshell cats

So far six Torti Girls tees sold to help animals in Japan! That’s a donation of $75! I still have six tees left, and it would be so nice to make a donation of $150! I’m donating to either Animal Refuge Kansai (if I can convert dollars to yen correctly),

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Tags: helping animals in Japan, japanese earthquake and tsunami, linoleum blcok-printed t-shirts, linoleum block print, the goddess, the roundest eyes, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

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Tortie Cats to Help Our Friends in Japan

Published on March 13, 2011 in animal welfare, cat artwork, feline artwork, linoleum block print, natural disasters

The Japanese people are legendarily fond of cats, have been through history. In every stage of art in their culture you’ll find felines of all stripes and spots and solids depicted in paintings happily ensconced in homes, walking about the estate, in sculptures curled in sleep and famously with one

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Tags: helping animals in Japan, japanese earthquake and tsunami, linoleum blcok-printed t-shirts, linoleum block print, the goddess, the roundest eyes, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

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