My article on Homeless Cat Management Team (HCMT) clinics was recently published in Pittsburgh Pet Connections Magazine, outlining what TNR is about for each community, and what actually happens at the HCMT clinics. Visit Trap-Neuter-Return and the Homeless Cat Management Team in Pittsburgh and read all about the clinics, along
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At first it was only kittens and puppies, but now it’s bunnies and chicks who end up in shelters after being given inappropriately as gifts at holidays. Worst of all for the bunnies and chicks, they are often not even purchased to be used as a pet. Growing up I
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Pittsburgh has a new resource for pet and animal lovers in both print and electronic form along with a comprehensive website for articles that complement the magazine’s monthly content so readers anywhere can enjoy and use the information. Pittsburgh PetConnections Magazine focuses on the bond between humans and animals both
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I met with Deb Chebatoris of Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation one night, riding with her to a presentation as we discussed the evening’s event and upcoming work I’d be doing for her. As always when I talk to Deb, our conversation is interrupted by phone calls. “I have to take
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I’ve had more than one cat who loved the smell of bleach, but Namir really acted on his indulgence. As soon as I began to scour the tub with cleanser, he would appear on the landing outside the bathroom door, nose bobbing in the air, a faraway look in his
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Turnabout is fair play. If the figure of 420,000 kittens potentially being born to one unspayed female cat—and her kittens, and her kittens’ kittens, etc., etc.—is constantly tossed about by both people who think cats should be spayed and by those who think they should be eradicated as noxious pests,
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Most of the cats for adoption I feature here were rescued by individuals through a shelter or rescue organization, often pulled right from the street. Kittens and cats arriving at shelters with an illness needing treatment or simply with a really bad attitude were pulled by alert rescuers who couldn’t
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Just about a year ago to the day I looked at Kelly and decided her story needed to be told for my Tuesday rescue story. Just two weeks after we’d lost Cookie, Kelly and I were finally feeling comfortable with being at our desk without her, Kelly settling on my
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Fred and Barney Fred and Barney are slowly coming around—no one knows their history, whether they were born outdoors or were abandoned at a young age, but if they haven’t had any socialization by four months cats can be pretty wild. If they’ve had no association with humans they are
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I thought I’d set these people straight a few months ago, but here the same culprits have come out with yet another “study”, what’s known as a “derivative study” which uses the data and results of other studies to form its own conclusions. This is not uncommon, but it stands
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