Orphaned kittens. Mother cats with new litters. Adult cats recovering from injuries. These are among the felines who stand to benefit from a Washington state program in which female inmates foster felines until the cats are ready for adoption. The inmates benefit too as part of the Pawsitive Prison Program. It’s backed by the Kitsap …
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Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Catster print magazine. Click here to subscribe to Catster magazine. I’ll never forget the day I rushed my sweet cat, Dahlia, to the emergency clinic, thinking she was having an asthma attack. I was worried enough about my baby girl, but when the …
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I never intended to write about cats. I believed I was solely a literary fiction writer and a freelance writer. Strangely, I freelanced about anything but cats: education text, politics, literary criticism, biographies, commercial matters. I ignored the huge passion and life interest that was most obvious. But at some point, I started using cats …
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Before Marie Edwards adopted her cat, Big Red, she spent several weeks feeding him in her backyard. When she finally caught him and took him to the vet, she learned the kitty was FIV positive. She was shocked by the doctor’s reaction to Big Red’s diagnosis. “The vet had the shot in his hand right …
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Editor’s note: Marilyn Krieger, a certified cat behavior consultant who writes the Ask a Behaviorist column for Catster, has teamed up with world-renowned fellow cat behavior expert Pam Johnson-Bennett to write this article, which we at Catster agree is an important issue to address. Cats and the Internet. Is there a more perfect pairing? Perhaps …
