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Kitty Things: Quilted Kitty, Egypt Kitty, and Donate to Food Drives

The Quilted Cat!
The Quilted Cat!

I love this quilted cat! I’ve had my eye on it at Carnegie Antiques for a while, but then I tell myself I really don’t need it, especially because hand-quilted things don’t last long with kitties who like to wrestle and rabbit kick anything that resembles another cat. I’d hate to see this be damaged so there’s no way I could put it out where I or anyone could see or enjoy.

The Quilted Cat!
Back of the Quilted Cat.

So the next best thing is to let others know about Quilted Kitty! Are you looking for a quaint and pretty holiday gift for a cat lover on your list? I’d love to see this go to someone I know. Quilted Kitty is at least 15″ tall, handmade and hand quilted. If you’re local, just stop in at Carnegie Antiques at 423 West Main Street in Carnegie, PA, 15106. If you’re not local and you’d like to buy this, please contact me and I’ll make arrangements. I don’t get any commission, I just like to share feline-inspired things, plus there’s one other reason this holiday season…

The other thing you can do while you’re at Carnegie Antiques, aside from browsing feline things, is drop some cans or a bag of cat food in the donation basket for the Homeless Cat Management Team. Judi agreed to be one of the collection places for this holidays’ food drive. You’ll be entered in a gift certificate for her shop, so make sure you browse all 11 rooms of unique vintage items. I have another feline artifact below, and also click here to see more feline-inspired items at Carnegie Antiques I’ve featured here on The Creative Cat, plus a few articles about the place from when I had a shop room there and Cookie went to work with me.

I’ve also had the idea to design a few of these myself…we’ll see if that happens!

Egyptian Cat Figurine

Egyptian Cat Figurine
Egyptian Cat Figurine

This little decorative brass cat figurine isn’t really vintage or doesn’t even have a real appraisable value but Judi thought it was a well-done little decorative piece, and so did I. The details are very nice and the colors characteristic. It caught my eye right away one of the evenings I was there for one of the Carnegie Crawl events, so I photographed it, knowing I’d like to feature it.

Below is a gallery of images of the little cat from various angles.

It’s about 6″ tall, and Judi has it priced at $10.00. If you’re local, just stop in at Carnegie Antiques at 423 West Main Street in Carnegie, PA, 15106. If you’re not local and you’d like to buy this, please contact me and I’ll make arrangements.

Holiday Cheer for Rescued Cats

Here’s your information about donating to our food drive and getting your own reward: make a donation that helps people help cats, and either I or the shop owners will give you a little reward, now through the end of 2014.

Every day, selfless individuals are helping homeless cats in any way they can from answering the call to capture orphaned kittens to foster and care for and find forever homes, trapping cats living outdoors for spay and neuter and veterinary care and either keeping them indoors or returning them to a supervised outdoor site, scouring craigslist for kittens and cats being given away for free or for sale and retrieving those they feel are in danger, also offering information and assistance to humans who can use it, and providing safe housing for and feeding thousands of cats every single day in outdoor colonies and much, much more. There is no payment for this and much of the expense for it out of their own pocket.

You see many of these cats and kittens featured in my “Cats for Adoption” articles each week, in several of my “Rescue Stories”, and you’ve even virtually met a number of them: Smokie, Bella, Kennedy, Emeraude and Lakota.

homeless cat management team logo
Homeless Cat Management Team logo

After the endless parade of kittens over the spring and summer and into fall, many of whom are still looking for homes, we are headed for the often deadly winter months when sturdy straw-filled shelters have been built and maintained for cats living outdoors, and often critical emergency veterinary care is needed for kittens born in the cold, and cats suffering injuries caused by or made worse by wintery weather along with the usual street injuries and, unfortunately, abuse.

We may call this Trap-Neuter-Return or TNR or simply rescue. It’s far more than just grabbing homeless cats and spaying or neutering them, returning them to their outdoor home, and as long as people continue abandoning cats the need for all this work will continue as well. Often there’s a network of assistance behind what rescuers do to help them with this rescue and care for outdoor cats, offering food and materials if they can’t afford it on their own and low-cost veterinary care for a cat they’ve rescued or a foster or outdoor cat they are caring for.

The Homeless Cat Management Team (HCMT) and PittsburghCAT provide that network of care to rescuers in the Pittsburgh area, loaning out traps, networking rescuers, providing low-cost or free spay/neuter clinics at least monthly and making low-cost emergency veterinary care available to rescuers as well as distributing food and even shelters to those who are caring for rescues in their homes or community cats living outdoors.

Here’s where you come in

You can help this effort by making a donation of cash, gift card or goods to HCMT or PittsburghCAT, through the PittsburghCAT wishlist or by donating gift cards or feline necessities:

  • Dry or Canned Cat and Kitten Food
  • Small Cat Beds
  • Cat Treats
  • Cat Toys
  • Food Bowls
  • Clumping Litter
  • Carriers and Crates

I’m participating with a gift card drive, and three business owners who are my customers and my good friends and who support my business as well are also participating this year. Click their links to visit and find out more about them, and if you’re local take some time to patronize their businesses this holiday season.

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Donations through The Creative Cat and Portraits of Animals

1. Donate through the PittsburghCAT wishlist

2. Donate a gift card by mail or electronically (see instructions below)

3. Donate cash

I’ll give you a $10 gift certificate to my Etsy shop for you to use for your holiday shopping, to give as a gift, or keep for later, good for $10.00 off your order of $25.00 or more until January 31, 2015.

Donations through the PittsburghCAT wishlist will be automatically entered in a raffle for a $25.00 Michael’s gift card.

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Drop off donations at Carnegie Antiques

423 West Main Street, Carnegie, PA 15106

www.jdllamaestates.com

Say hello to Judi and congratulate her on her recent adoption of a kitty rescued from her neighborhood and her five other rescued cats. Drop off food, litter, toys or other feline necessities at Carnegie Antiques and be entered in a drawing for a gift certificate. Read more about Judi and Carnegie Antiques.

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Drop off donations at Eccentricity Designs LLC

135 East Main Street, Carnegie, Pennsylvania 15106

www.eccentricitydesignsllc.com

Say hello to Bonita and ask her about her five rescued cats, and look around for my artwork in addition to other unique items. Drop off food, litter, toys or other feline necessities at Eccentricity Designs LLC and be entered in a drawing for a gift certificate.

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Donate through Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation

442 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017

www.ccpc.ws

Deb is frequently away from her business so drop-offs can be scheduled (until we find a convenient drop-off place). Give Deb a call at 412-220-7800 and donate off food, litter, toys or other feline necessities and be entered in a drawing for a gift certificate.

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Other Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Area

Cuts & Styles, 748 Brookline Blvd
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1047 Shady Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15232

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Donate gift cards electronically

Help HCMT and PittsburghCAT continue to provide much-needed food and supplies to foster homes, rescuers and caretakers by donating a gift card for pet supplies and they can purchase food and supplies tailored for the animals they are caring for. Petco, PetSmart and WalMart are each convenient.

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to the Petco, PetSmart or WalMart website and purchase an electronic gift card for at least $10.00.

2. Designate it as a gift to “Homeless Cat Management Team” or “PittsburghCAT”.

3. In their “notes” section (most have one for gifts), note that this is through “The Creative Cat” so they know where it came from.

4. To complete the gift card, here is their contact information:

Mailing Address: Homeless Cat Management Team, P. O. Box 100203, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

Email:  [email protected]

Phone Number: 412-321-4060

5. Email your confirmation to me, or simply email me that you donated a gift card through the Holiday Cheer program. Please let me know if you’d like to be acknowledged publicly at the end of the campaign with just your name, no donation amount. Your name will not be used without your permission to publish it.

6. I will reply to your email with your numbered gift certificate attached.

If you’re not comfortable purchasing it on the internet, you can purchase it in person and mail it to them using the address above. Simply include a note that it’s part of “The Creative Cat Holiday Cheer for Homeless Cats”, or just “The Creative Cat”, and make sure you include your email address. They will contact me when they receive it and I will send your gift certificate.

Make a donation

A cash donation will help support the low-cost veterinary care that has saved many lives and, most importantly, prevented the births of many kittens. And Frankie’s Friends also treats dogs in many of their low-cost clinics in Tarentum and in the mobile van, so you are helping prevent puppies as well, and also helping rescued dogs with low-cost veterinary care.

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to the HCMT website and make a donation of at least $10.00.

2. The donation is made through PayPal which has a “notes” section. Note that this is through “The Creative Cat”.

3. Email your confirmation to me, or simply email me that you donated cash through the Holiday Cheer program. Please let me know if you’d like to be acknowledged publicly at the end of the campaign with just your name, no donation amount. Your name will not be used without your permission to publish it.

4. I will reply to your email with your numbered gift certificate attached.

How to use your gift certificate

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Your Holiday Cheer Gift Certificate to use or give as a gift.

Your gift certificate will have a code that will be active for use in Portraits of Animals on Etsy until January 31, 2014. This code is entered at checkout for your $10.00 discount. But if you are shopping elsewhere on one of my pages or you’d like to use the discount toward a commissioned portrait or in person, you’ll just need to give me your name and the certificate number and I’ll either manually discount your order or refund $10.00 to you.

Feel free to use your certificate for your holiday shopping, for your post-holiday shopping, or to give as a gift. For my own accounting purposes, I’d like to keep all the transactions within this calendar year.

I will have a link to this post in the right-hand sidebar of my home page until December 31, 2014 and I will also have a link to it in the footer of at least one post each day.

Holiday Cheer for Rescued Cats
Holiday Cheer for Rescued Cats

Happy shopping!

You can visit my Etsy shop to browse what’s there right now, and keep in mind that I add new products regularly, especially one-of-a-kind handmade items. Also visit my page here on The Creative Cat that explains about “Ordering Custom Artwork” where you can have a custom print made of a sketch, painting or photograph you like.

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Thanks to everyone who has donated so far this year through other donation opportunities on The Creative Cat!

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And thanks also to those of you who are out there rescuing. These cats are in good hands!


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From health and welfare to rescue and adoption stories, advocacy and art, factual articles and fictional stories, "The Creative Cat" offers both visual and verbal education and entertainment about cats for people who love cats, pets and animals of all species.

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