“Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Just Plain Pumpkin” Published in Autumn 2025 PetConnections Magazine

October 8, 2025 Bernadette

Listen, my minions! Mewsette is fond of pumpkin.

It’s autumn and time to harvest some pumpkins—but not pumpkin spice—for your pets! Read “Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Just Plain Pumpkin” in the Autumn 2025 issue of PetConnections Magazine.

Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Just Plain Pumpkin!

Pumpkin is a nutritious and versatile fruit, and its benefit for cats and dogs is in the fiber, vitamins and minerals in an easily-digestible form, given alone or mixed in food. Roast or cook and process fresh pumpkins now for far less than you’d pay for canned and freeze for your-round use. And you and your feeder birds get sunflower seed snacks.

Find the digital magazine issue:

linked on the PetConnections website home page (look for the icon for the Autumn 2025 issue)
go directly to the Autumn 2025 digital issue flipbook on the website

You can also find the latest cat resources on the resources page on this site.

Read other published articles.

Gifts featuring cats you know! Visit Portraits of Animals

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Great Rescues Day Book:
Portraits, Rescue Stories, Holidays and Events, Essential Feline Information, All in One Book

day book with cat portraits — Great Rescues Day Book

Each month features one of my commissioned portraits of a feline or felines and their rescue story along with a kitty quote on the left page, and on the right page the month name with enough lines for all possible dates, with standard holidays and animal-themed observances and events. Great Rescues also includes a mini cat-care book illustrated with my drawings including information on finding strays or orphaned kittens, adopting for the first time or caring for a geriatric cat, a list of household toxins and toxic plants, or helping stray and feral cats and beginning with TNR.

Each book includes also 10 sheets of my “22 Cats” decorative notepaper with a collage of all the portraits in black and white so you can make your own notes or write special notes to friends.

The portraits in this book, collected as a series, won both a Certificate of Excellence and a Muse Medallion in the 2011 Cat Writers’ Association Annual Communication Contest, as well as the 22 Cats Notepaper.

Copyright

All images and text used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission, although links to your site are more than welcome and are shared. Please ask if you are interested in using and image or story in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of an image or a product including it, check my animal and nature website Portraits of Animals to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit Ordering Custom Artwork for more information on a custom greeting card, print or other item.