This was Mom and Christine at an adoption fair last year… One look at the two of them and you know they are nothing but trouble… Who do they think they are? Cats?

Human Mom and her buddy, Christine Michaels of Riverfront Cats are heading out to the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Pet Expo today to represent their nonprofit, Pawsitively Humane, so that they can help teach people about topics such as pet responsibility and the importance of spay/neuter. Read more

This is the pandemonium that is MARTA… Need I say more?

Typically we associate spooky things such as ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and candy corn with Halloween. After returning last Sunday from the BarkWorld/MeowWorld Cat Writers’ Conference in Atlanta, I have found there are other things even more spooky, such as the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) system I took to get from the airport to the Westin hotel where I was staying and where the conference was held. Read more

Advocates 4 Animals, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Greene County, OH. Their mission is to help animals through a variety of programs such as the Pet Food Pantry, Spay It Forward Program, Feral Cat Program and the Rescue/Adoption Program.

One of the greatest pleasures of being an animal lover is getting to know other animal lovers and one such of these people is Stacey Ritz, the co-founder and Executive Director of Advocates 4 Animals, Inc. I have known Stacey for several years – primarily through our affiliation with the Cat Writer’s Association, but also because my beloved angel cat Harley was chosen as the cover cat for the Advocates 4 Animals 2013 calendar. Even though 2013 has come and gone, I proudly keep the calendar hung on my office wall so I can see my beautiful girl and I will forever be grateful to Stacey for giving me that keepsake. Read more

Being that I am heavily involved in the Cat Writers’ Association (CWA) and in light of the fact our annual conference will be held at the end of this month, it is not unusual to get a lot of email blasts this time of year about one thing or another. So, when I saw a message in my inbox from CWA Vice President, Dusty Rainbolt on Tuesday, I barely glanced at the subject heading and just opened it, expecting to see something about the conference. Instead, I, along with the whole CWA membership, got the completely unexpected news that Lorie Huston, DVM,  and our CWA President was in the hospital, critically ill due to complications from liver failure. Read more

Today is Remember Me Thursday™ – an annual global candle-lighting event held on the fourth Thursday of September, created in 2013 by Michael Arms, the President of the Helen Woodward Animal Center in honor of people working in animal welfare who are forced to take the lives of pets they love. He felt lighting a candle worldwide for those orphans would be a way for people to let the world know how much they were loved and to “opt to adopt,” reducing the millions of orphan pets euthanized each year. Read more