Hi All! I have an interesting favor to ask of you today if I might. As you know, one of my main missions with Zee and Zoey’s blog is to spread the message of cat responsibility to a larger audience outside of my cat circle of friends and peers which is no easy task. Trying to widen my reach and meet new people outside of my genre, I happened upon a wonderful blog the other day that is called “Searching for the Happiness.” The author, Wendy McCance, writes with a reflective and thought provoking style that really caught my attention and I find that it is nice to sometimes frequent blogs that are not exclusively cat related. And yes, you may audibly gasp here… Read more

While even one post on the subject is too many, that we have to sit in shock, once again, mere months after the Sandy Hook shootings to watch our freedoms and the little joys of our lives be chipped away because some sickly individuals decide the value of life has no meaning to them, is insufferable. My step-children live in Boston and I never imagined a day where they would have to live in complete fear for their lives while police and military presence has become a commonplace sight to them, schools, businesses, and mass transit are closed, they are in “lock-down” mode, and my 14 year old step-daughter has to call her Dad and ask the unfathomable question, “Am I going to die?” Read more

For most of my life, my cats came to me the same way – strays that either found me or I found them. I called it fate and rarely questioned the logic of it. The minute I brought them into my house, they became part of my heart and home. That changed in 1998 when I happened upon a new TV channel called “Animal Planet” and they were doing an hour long show about a breed of cat that I had never heard of before, the Ragdoll.  Read more

When you need an idea for a blog post, I highly recommend you reupholster your dining room chairs. Sure, it requires planning, time, money, tools, and the ability to know how to recover furniture, but once you have all those bases covered and throw in eight curious cats, well, the post practically writes itself…

It started several weeks ago when I had finally decided to stop ignoring the fact that our dining room chairs were covered with permanent stains and were practically disintegrating from age and looked absolutely atrocious. Since we don’t actually eat in the dining room more than a couple times a year and the chairs are only about 5 years old, it remains a mystery why they are in such bad shape, but I vaguely do recall a time when I was using the sewing machine at the table and an adult beverage that I had next to me in a pretty bright pink color got knocked over by Zoey and Peanut who felt compelled at that time to chase one another via the table top and the liquid spilled into my pin cushion that was next to my sewing machine (a  family heirloom with a needlepoint design that was made by my late Aunt), the fabric I was sewing to make some throw pillows (that had to be thrown into the washing machine), and all over the beige chair I was sitting on.  Read more

Much as it is hard for me to imagine, not all people like cats or the people who love them and Petfinder.com is trying to change that negative mindset with a campaign whereby cat parents proudly show the world just how real, funny, down-to-earth, inventive and diverse they are. They ask us to proclaim “I am a cat parent” through pictures, blog posts, tweets, or any other way we can think of to prove that everyone can love a cat like we do and that they are not second class pets. Read more