Sunday Purrs: Stretch Your Body, Stretch Your Mind

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I’m delighted to introduce a new Sunday feature today: Sunday Purrs of Wisdom. We’ll be featuring photos of beautiful kitties, sometimes Allegra (above) and Ruby, sometimes others, paired with quotes.

Quotations resonate with us because they can express the essence of a subject with a few, well-chosen words. When paired with an image, they can touch an even deeper part of us. Quotes can make us look at life from a different perspective. They can teach us something new. And sometimes, they can even make us smile.Continue Reading

Allegra and Ruby and the Birthday Surprise

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Hi everyone, it’s Allegra and Ruby! We took over the computer after Mom went to bed last night! Mom had one of her very important posts about some very important topic scheduled for today, but today is her birthday! Since she works so hard every day to write new posts for you, we thought she deserved a break today, so we rescheduled the post for next week. Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat is a Finalist for Best Cat Blog in the BlogPaws 2016 Nose-to-Nose Awards

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I’m delighted to announce that The Conscious Cat is a Finalist for Best Cat Blog in the 2016 Nose-to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social Media Awards. These awards were created by the founders of BlogPaws to judge pet bloggers and people who write about pets online for their expertise, creativity, performance and achievements in one or more of 12 categories. Judging is done by a panel of industry experts.Continue Reading

Happy Mother’s Day 2016

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Mother’s Day is still a bit of a bittersweet holiday for me. Even though my mother passed away 22 years ago, I still feel a pang each year when Mother’s Day cards start appearing in stores.

I owe so many things to my mom, but the two most important ones are my love of cats, and my love of books.Continue Reading

Allegra’s World: 5 Ways to Charm Your Human

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Hi everyone, it’s Allegra! It’s been a while since you heard from me, and I finally got Mom to agree that I can share something I’ve been wanting to tell you about for a long time: how I get Mom to do what I want her to do. Now I’m pretty sure most kitties already know how to do it, but I thought that by revealing my secrets, it might make humans comply a little faster when we employ some of these techniques, because, let’s face it, humans can be a little slow on the uptake sometimes.Continue Reading

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Sunday Purrs: Mewsings in Purple

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Even ten days later, I still find it hard to accept that Prince is really gone. I never owned any of his albums, and I wasn’t even that big a fan, but his death is hitting me hard. I don’t think I realized until all the tributes started pouring in just how much his songs were part of the soundtrack of my life. Today, I’m going to take a little break from our usual more cat-centric Sunday fare to pay tribute to this amazing artist.Continue Reading

Sunday Purrs: The Mindful Pause

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There’s no question that meditation is good for us. t helps us handle the stress of daily life, it has numerous health benefits, and it is a wonderful way to get in touch with our true spiritual nature. In fact, there is so much evidence that meditation is good for you that meditation should be as much a part of our daily lives as breathing.

And yet, many of us find excuses to not establish a daily meditation practice.Continue Reading

Sunday Purrs: The Secret of the Keys

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If you’re looking for a little Sunday inpurration today, may I suggest snuggling up with your kitties and a favorite beverage and watching The Secret of the Keys? And if you’re wondering why I’m telling you about a movie that doesn’t have a single cat in it, it’s because this film is packed with so much guidance and encouragement, I just had to share it with you.Continue Reading

Allegra’s World: 6th Adoption Anniversary

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Hi everyone, it’s Allegra! Can you believe that today is my 6th adoption anniversary? Six years ago today, Mom brought me home to live with her and Amber. Sadly, I never got to know Amber really well, because she passed away six weeks after I arrived. After Amber’s passing, it was just Mom and me for almost a year before Ruby joined our family. Some days, I still wonder whether that was really such a good idea…Continue Reading