Ordinarily, perpetrators of breaking & entering, petty theft, and grand larceny eventually find themselves being poked with the pointy end of the law. In the case of one Tuxedoed Domestic Shorthair named Juno, such acts have been met with international fame, worldwide admiration, and even a nomination for honorary mayor. Since 2019, this prolific cat […]
We Need to Talk About Juno – The Curious Case of a Klepto Kitty Read More »
Did you know that there are more pet cats in Canada than dogs? In 2024, approximately 8.9 million felines were to be found in Canadian homes, compared to 8.3 million dogs.1 Unfortunately, there are also between 1.4 and 4.2 million stray and feral cats in the north,2 with Canadian shelters taking in around three times
RAPS Cat Sanctuary – A Forever Home For the Cats No One Wanted (with Video) Read More »
Dr Elsey’s has been a household name in cat food and litter for decades, but just because they’ve been around for a long time doesn’t mean they’re old news. In a surprise decision, the company, led by Dr Bruce Elsey, has decided to stop production of their popular Ultra Scented Cat Litter. This is not
Scented No More: Dr Elsey’s Cat Litter Makes a Sensible Switch Read More »
Every now and then, you come across a story that hits you right in the feels, and this week, that story is all about a cat named Garbanzo and the dedicated foster carer who has saved her life twice. Rachael Robertson is the epitome of an animal lover. Working in the pet care industry, fostering
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Every vet has an origin story; the moment they realized that caring for animals was their passion, and that one way or another, they would dedicate their lives to that cause. For Dr Kevin Fitzgerald, it was the love and loss of his pet turtle, Sam, that planted the seed of a career spent in
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Without the results of scientific research and experiments, the world would be filled with the ifs and maybes of untested hypotheses. Unfortunately, an overwhelming amount of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs have come at the expense of animals used in experiments. In a recent study of sensory processing in chronic pain at the University of Montreal,
Cats in Crochet Thinking Caps: How Hats Are Helping Neurological Studies Read More »
In the almost three decades since the creation of Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, the technology of cloning has been tweaked and perfected to a point where biotech companies are now offering to clone our pets. Imagine being able to get another 14 or 15 years with our beloved cat, starting all over again
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In a world increasingly dominated by technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, it would be easy to assume that libraries would be going the way of the dinosaurs. In fact, far from heading into extinction, many libraries are evolving to become just as relevant and vital to communities as they were before the internet. Far
March Meowness – Redefining Library Engagement in Massachusetts Read More »
If there is one diagnosis that is universally feared, it’s cancer. The great equalizer, cancer doesn’t care if you’re old, young, rich, poor, black, white, or beige. It also doesn’t spare our cats. Although a universal cure for cancer may be something of a fairytale, the treatment of cancer is a field that is constantly
Until very recently, a diagnosis of the disease Feline Infectious Peritonitis, better known as FIP, was an automatic death sentence. An aggressive inflammatory disease, FIP is a mutation of a relatively benign form of feline coronavirus, a distant relation to COVID-19. Interestingly, it was the human coronavirus pandemic that accelerated the development of the first
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