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Cats for Adoption: Mimi Says, “For Mother’s Day, Spay Your Cat.”

Mimi waited until today to give her annual Mother’s Day address along with our weekly post about cats for adoption, featuring several homeless rescued kittens…if all cats were spayed before reproducing, there would be no homeless kittens to post. This is Mimi’s wish as a mother of 24 kittens. Much

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Hairballs, Not So Funny

April 26 is Hairball Awareness Day, and before you either yawn and click somewhere else or have a laugh at what seems like a good joke, read on a bit. I remember reading in a Q&A in a cat care newsletter, “Why Do Cats Throw Up?” The answer began, “There

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Register, Volunteer or Donate for Homeless Cat Management Team Clinics

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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A Few More Holiday Considerations

Aside from all the toxic flowers and plants popular for this time of year, the spring holidays are fraught with other dangers for curious kitties and dogs for whom the question is, “Is it a toy or is it food?” Cats and dogs will both eat things you’d never dream

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Living Green With Pets: Leave the Lilies Outside

For kitty’s sake, this Easter plant that Easter lily outside! And plan ahead for what flowers you may give as gifts or bring into your own home. Many of the flowers symbolic of this holiday or used for decoration this time of year including flowers from spring-blooming bulbs such as

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Introducing “Pittsburgh PetConnections Magazine”

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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Living Green With Pets: Spring Cleaning

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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Living Green With Pets: Flowers for Your Valentine

Apparently, you can’t go wrong with roses, either for your Valentine or for your kitty—as long as they don’t have thorns! The roses, I mean. Not the kitties. Valentine’s Day is Thursday, so if you are making your plans to give flowers, if the recipient has pets, be aware of

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Mimi Says, “I Love Being Spayed.”

Much as I adore Mimi and the Fantastic Four, if I had to live without them because Mimi had been spayed before she had any kittens at all, I could do it. In fact, I wouldn’t have known most of the cats who lived with me if their mother had been

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Daily Photo Reprise: Cookie Checks the Cookie Jar, 2012

I’ll plant flowers and vegetables in anything—with Cookie’s supervision, of course! Occasionally I go around to yard sales and buy some cheap ceramic items and use them for flower pots, in this case a canister set that had mostly broken lids so each pot was maybe a dime. This one

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