Congratulations to the Winner of Our September 2025 Darwin’s Giveaway
Congratulations, Stephanie Broderson! You’re the winner of our Darwin’s raw cat food giveaway. You will get 20 pounds of food for your cats, and 20 pounds will be sent to your chosen shelter or rescue.
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Rereading Old Favorites: Homer’s Odyssey
The second entry in my new series, Rereading Old Favorites, is Gwen Cooper’s Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat. I would venture to guess that many of you read this book when it was first published in 2009. Featuring Homer, a tiny blind kitten whose courage, joy and boundless heart change his human’s life forever is a true classic in the cat literature genre.Continue Reading
Sunday Quotes: Small
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Review: The Next Chapter Bookshop
A charming small town in Vermont, a bookstore with an opinionated resident cat, and a protagonist finding her purpose (and a little romance:) The Next Chapter Bookshop has all the elements of a purrfect story. Continue Reading
Sunday Quotes: Butterfly
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Tooth Resorption in Cats: A Common, Painful Condition
Tooth resorption is a common condition in cats, affecting 20 to 60 percent of adult cats and close to 75 percent of cats five years or older. It is a painful condition and the most common reason for extractions. In the past, tooth resorption was referred to as feline oral resorptive lesions, feline odontoclastic resorptions, cavities, caries, cervical neck lesions, external or internal root resorptions, and cervical line erosions.Continue Reading
Giveaway: 20 Pounds of Darwin’s Cat Food for Your Cat and 20 Pounds for Your Favorite Rescue or Shelter
This giveaway is sponsored by Darwin’s Natural Pet Products and contains affiliate links*
When it comes to feeding your cats, the less processed their food is, the better it is for their 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, until Allegra could no longer tolerate it because of her various health issues, I’ve been feeding Darwin’s, and it has become a perennial favorite.Continue Reading
Sunday Quotes: Doorway to October
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Giving Multiple Medications to Cats: How I Pill Allegra
Giving medications to a cat is rarely simple. Even though there are plenty of ways to approach this task and outwit even the most resistant of cats, the reality is that there are still some who simply won’t cooperate. And it’s one thing to have to give a cat one medication for a couple of weeks, but a whole other story when a cat is on multiple medications for the long term. In this article, I’m explaining how I handle this challenge with Allegra, along with some additional tips and tricks to help make the process go more smoothly.Continue Reading
Rereading Old Favorites: The Blessings of the Animals
I recently started rereading some old favorite books. Not all of them are cat books, but many are. I thought I’d start a new series and share some of these perennial favorites with you. Today’s entry: The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle. That’s Katrina’s beautiful Annie in the photo above showing off the cover.Continue Reading