Ripple Rug Cat Activity Mat Review

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Playtime is vitally important to a cat’s mental and physical health, and it’s especially important for indoor cats. Even though cats may sleep up to 16 hours a day, when they’re awake, they need stimulation, and the best way to accomplish this is with play. Play is nothing more than channeling your domestic tiger’s hunting instinct into play, so toys that stimulate that instinct are the best kind. The Ripple Rug Cat Activity Mat is a feline playground that meets all of these needs, and it’s a lot of fun for both cat and human.Continue Reading

Sunday Quotes: Journaling

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I’ve journaled on and off throughout my life from the time I was a teenager, but for the last few years, I’ve been so busy with writing for magazines, my websites and various books that journaling fell off my radar. I recently started a daily journaling practice again, and now I don’t know how I did without it all these years.Continue Reading

Giveaway: 20 Pounds of Darwin’s Raw Cat Food for Your Cat and 20 Pounds for Your Favorite Rescue

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When it comes to feeding your cat, the less processed her food is, the better it is for her health. A raw diet is the least processed of all feline diets, and raw feeding is becoming more and more mainstream as cat parents look for alternatives to highly processed pet foods. I’ve been feeding raw for the past ten years, and have seen all of my cats thrive on it. For the past six years, I’ve been feeding Darwin’s, and it has become a perennial favorite.Continue Reading

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Sunday Quotes: Beautiful Spring

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We had an early spring here with lots of things already blooming, but now March is being fickle and it’s much colder again. I chose today’s image and quote to bring a little more spring into all our lives!

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Kitten Kindergarten: The Benefits of Early Socialization and Training

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Guest post by Laura Cassiday

With no questions last month, I decided to talk about kittens this month! It’s finally almost spring, and with spring comes lots and lots of kittens. I’m particularly excited for this year’s kitten season because I will be running a Kitten Kindergarten class at a local veterinary clinic. You might be asking, what the heck is Kitten Kindergarten? It sounds adorable, doesn’t it? It is. But it can be a game changer for new cat parents when it comes to starting their new kittens out on the right paw.Continue Reading

Review: Answers Raw Cat Food

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Answers is a family owned pet food company based in Pennsylvania offering a humane, sustainable way of organic, pasture-raised farming that protects the food state, the environment, animals, and our pets’ well-being. Their Detailed™ Formula for Cats is a complete and balanced fermented raw wholefood diet, naturally high in protein, taurine, healthy fats, and moisture from raw pastured meat, organs, finely ground bone,and organic eggs, with naturally occurring essential vitamins and minerals.Continue Reading

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