{"id":9269,"date":"2013-04-10T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2013-04-27T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T12:27:57","slug":"my-dedication-and-promise-to-petfinder-com-i-am-a-cat-parent-and-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/my-dedication-and-promise-to-petfinder-com-i-am-a-cat-parent-and-proud-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dedication and Promise to Petfinder.com – I am a Cat Parent and Proud of it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"love-my-cat-632<\/a>Much as it is hard for me to imagine, not all people like cats or the people who love them and Petfinder.com<\/a> 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 \u201cI am a cat parent\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

As someone who has always had cats in her life and is currently a cat parent to eight extraordinary felines \u2013 Jazz, Harley, Zee, Zoey, Mia, Peanut, Rolz, and Kizmet \u2013 my question is how could anyone not want to be a cat parent? Simply put, cats are amazing and I would not want to ever imagine a day in my life without them being a part of it.<\/p>\n

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Click image to enlarge<\/p><\/div>Why such devotion and commitment to cats? The fact is very simple \u2013 I admire everything about what a cat embodies and my life is completely enriched and fulfilled by them being in it. They are a blessedly unique creature and there is no road map to their logic. A cat believes in magic and is mystical, mysterious, graceful, powerful, elegant, and poetic. They can also be wonderfully goofy, comical, and clumsy clods. Some are perennially active, alert, and curious, while others are at the completely opposite end of the spectrum \u2013 they are decidedly lazy and sedentary. But, regardless, each cat has the innate sensibilities and capabilities for love without judgment.<\/p>\n

Never once do they care if we have combed our hair, cleaned the house, put on makeup, or if our socks match. They don\u2019t care what religion we believe in and they do not judge us for the color of our skin or the income we have. A fancy degree framed on our wall means nothing to them \u2013 they don\u2019t care if you are a cashier by profession or a renowned surgeon. It does not matter what language you speak and they don\u2019t care if you live in a mansion or a small apartment. They are not obsessed with the latest celebrity gossip, nor do they care if you like them on facebook. They don\u2019t even care if you wear clean underwear when you leave the house, whether you floss or not, or if you eat a balanced meal and drink eight glasses of water a day.<\/p>\n

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How can you not love these precious babies? L to R – Zoey, Harley, and Mia.<\/p><\/div>All they want is to love you and to have you love them back. As long as a cat has its basic needs \u2013 food, clean litter, a warm place to sleep, and feels content and secure, then every day has the delightful possibility of being Christmas morning or a wonderful magic carpet ride of chasing unicorns on sunbeams and rainbows in the sky to them. Every toe can become a mouse, every curtain\u00a0a mountain to be climbed, every paper bag an invitation to a world unknown, and every empty box a castle. Lizards are dragons to be slayed and human laps are the treasured treat of sweet dreams. These individually unique, beautiful and intelligent creatures teach us to live in the moment, to forgive and forget, and to welcome the prospect of a new and better life each and every day, if we so chose.<\/p>\n

So again, I ask you, after reading that, the real question is why would you not want to be a cat parent?<\/p>\n

The text about why I have such a devotion and commitment to cats is an excerpt and one of my favorite parts of The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey. I wrote it as part of the last chapter with the hope that after people read my book that \u00a0they would have a better love and appreciation for the feline species. I remain dedicated to this commitment and will always be proud to say, “I am a cat parent.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,1100],"tags":[1265,249,586,251,585],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-blogging-writing","category-inspiration-healing","category-wordless-wednesday","tag-cats","tag-feline-human-bond","tag-i-am-a-cat-parent","tag-love","tag-petfinder-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pet-parent-001.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9288,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/9288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}