I remember the day like it was yesterday. Dan and I were in the car on our way to work and I found myself questioning my life. I remember saying it out loud. “Is this it?”  “Isn’t there something more to my life’s purpose?” Dan and I had a job in the same company, but we were not emotionally fulfilled or satisfied with our careers. I didn’t know what it was that I wanted or what I felt was missing, but there was a certain emptiness in my life. Read more

FixNation of Los Angeles officially opened its doors to the public on July 16, 2007 and is the first of its kind organization dedicated to reducing the population of homeless stray and feral cats by providing full-time, free spay/neuter services to caregivers of community cats and low-cost services for tame companion cats. When I was presented with the opportunity to interview with one of the founders, Karn Myers, I jumped at the chance. FixNation had recently made the news with an exciting funding raising event in honor of World Spay Day on February 28th called “FixNation’s 2012 Spay Day Celebration.” Our friend Jackson Galaxy of My Cat From Hell was the special featured guest and I just knew this was an organization I wanted to be affiliated with and help spread the good word about. Read more

If you are still one of the few people left on this planet who have not gotten your cat Da Bird, if this entertaining video to follow doesn’t convince you, nothing will! Rather unfathomable to me in retrospect, but in all my 50 plus cat loving years, I actually had not heard of Da Bird until I watched Jackson Galaxy use it as a behavioral toy on My Cat From Hell a few weeks ago. Apparently I had been living under a rock, because when I found the item and read the reviews, not only was every cat in the universe in love with this toy, they were addicted to it like a drug addict… Read more

One look at Zoey is all it takes – there are simply no further words needed to do justice to this quote by the late author, Georgina Stickland Gates.

Dr.Georgina Stickland Gates (1896 – 1981) was born in Brooklyn, New York and received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1919. She was an assistant professor at Barnard, retiring in 1934. Her book, “The Modern Cat: Her Mind and Manners,” was published by Macmillan in 1928.  Source: The New York Times.

It is of note as well, that the spelling of her last name remains somewhat inconsistent in the usage of this very popular cat quote. I have seen it spelled “Strickland” with an “r” as well as “Stickland” without the “r.” Her obituary is spelled without the “r” as well as her listing in The Cat Fanciers’ Association Foundation library. If anyone has an actual copy of this book, I would be very interested in how her name is spelled in print as the author.

 Please continue to read about the human connection and what we all can do to help in the battle against cat overpopulation. Read more