Responsible Pet Ownership Guide
Owning a pet is a privilege and should result in a mutually beneficial relationship. However, the benefits of pet ownership come with obligations.
Owning a pet is a privilege and should result in a mutually beneficial relationship. However, the benefits of pet ownership come with obligations.
If you live in an area that is home to an abundance of feral, undomesticated cats, instead of just watching the situation get worse and worse, consider taking matters into your own hands.
Feral cats are the offspring of lost or abandoned pet cats or other feral cats who are not spayed or neutered.
Waddy beats the odds to celebrate 27th birthday! Waddy, didn’t have the best start after being born the runt of the litter and was even thrown out by his owners. His life began to turn around when he was adopted by a 66-year-old lady when he was just four weeks old. ‘I’ve always had cats,…
DetailsAnimal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is the use of special animals to help treat people with many different ailments. Volunteers use their time as well as their pet’s time to help train the pets to work with their human partners. Dogs were mostly used in nursing homes and other medical facilities but now cats are being…
DetailsDorothy Max spent much of her life feeding stray cats and caring for them. She would catch the feral cats, domesticate them, and find them homes through her association with the PetsMart in Willoughby.
The myth of the “crazy cat lady” seems universally accepted these days. But where did it come from? It’s origins are difficult to pinpoint. Though the Edies of GreyGardens were pioneers of the cat lady persona, it’s taken on a different connotation in the here and now.
Relax. You don’t have to get rid of your cats during pregnancy in order to have a normal, healthy baby. While family and friends are most likely well-meaning by warning you about cats and toxoplamosis, they are most probably also misinformed.
DetailsLynea Lattanzio lives alone with hundreds of felines on her 12 acre spread in Parlier, California where she runs a huge cat sanctuary. ‘If I were a cat, this is where I’d be,’ she told a US newspaper. We’re a no-cage, no-kill adoption sanctuary.’
Like many other really weird things cats do, science hasn’t fully cracked this particular feline mystery… but there are a few hints! Predation advantage There’s the obvious predation advantage a box affords: Cats are ambush predators, and boxes provide great hiding places to stalk prey from (and retreat to). But there’s clearly more going on here.…
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