Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Holiday 2015 issue of Catster print magazine. Click here to subscribe to Catster magazine. We don’t get enough sleep for many reasons: We work too much, stay out too late, watch too much television, our cats keep us awake. … Wait, what?! Cats can cause sleep deprivation? …
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There are good ideas and there are brilliant ones. SpokAnimal, a Spokane, Washington-based nonprofit animal shelter, has devised an ingenious way to save at-risk cats from euthanasia: It’s called Farm Livin’, a shelter cat adoption program that places less adoptable felines onto local farms to serve as barn cats. Launched in 2009, this successful program …
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Cat-petting is one of my life’s true joys. It’s a natural anti-anxiety treatment and a way for me to connect heart-to-heart with my sweet kitties. I’ve lived with cats most of my life and have definitely learned each feline is unique in petting preference. Some lucky humans get to touch cats’ bellies; however, I usually …
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I don’t have any tattoos, but I sometimes joke that if I did, I’d pay tribute to one of my previous cats, Mei, by having an inked image of her tattooed from one upper arm to the other and snaking across my chest. (There was a joke about her being very long, the origins of …
