Author: Andee Bingham
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How to Treat Cat Bites and Cat Bite Infections
When you're working with overstimulated cats in a shelter, it's easy to see why cat bites happen. Here's how to treat them so they don't get infected.
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Traveling With Cats in the Car: 5 Ways to Calm Your Kitty
The holiday season often means road trips to visit family and friends. Here are a few tips to ease the stress of traveling with cats in the car!
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I Moved My Two Cats Into a House With a Dog
How would Nora and Ida tolerate living with a 60-pound dog? Surprisingly well, it turned out.
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I Moved 829 Miles With My Cats: Here’s How I Did It
Nora, Ida, and I moved from New York to North Carolina, and it went pretty well.
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4 Things You Should Know Before You Foster Kittens
Shelters always need help getting kittens ready for adoption; make sure it's right for you.
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4 Things I Learned From Working at an Animal Shelter
I'd been oblivious to the amount of dedication -- and coordination -- it takes to rescue cats.
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I Love My Maine Coon Kitten — But Holy Toledo, the Fur!
I’m a creature of habit. I find things that I love, and I stick to them with an often-absurd loyalty. Until about a year ago, every cat I have ever been tightly bonded with (and there have been a lot) has been short-haired stripey tabbies — including my oldest cat, Pippi. I’ll be the first …
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I Work with FIV-Positive Cats, and Guess What? They’re Not Broken!
The world was very different for cats with FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus) in 1993 when Carol Bessette, long-time volunteer at Whiskers Animal Benevolent League, took home her first FIV-positive cat, Boots. "We didn’t know much about FIV then," she remembers, "and we didn’t have room in the old shelter to keep FIV+ cats without caging …
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Fostering Pregnant Cats: One Family’s Experience
When Lauren von Krusenstiern stopped into the Windham County Humane Society shortly after her family’s 15-year-old cat passed away, she was looking for a kitten. "They didn’t have any kittens," she remembers, "but they had just taken in a really sweet pregnant mama cat, Sadie, and asked if I’d be interested in fostering her and …
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I Volunteer at a Shelter — and Three Cats Stole My Heart
I have volunteered weekly at Whiskers Animal Benevolent League, a cat rescue and shelter in Albany, NY, since August. It’s not a glamorous job by any means. The majority of my shift consists of scooping litter boxes, juggling six cans of food to accommodate different diets, and wiping down every surface with a solution that …
