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Category: Pets + Animals

  • A Giant Step for Oscar-Kind

    You’ll love this video of a black cat named Oscar. The kitty made medical history recently with his groovy new artificial cat feet. Oscar (no, not my Oscar!) lost both of his hind legs in a combine accident. Ouch. Watch to see him wake up from surgery and immediately start…

  • Feline Holistic Select Radiant Dry Food Review

    You read about the reaction of my cats, Choco and Oscar, to Feline Holistic Select wet food. Now, how did the dry food fare with these picky felines? They love it. While the cats weren’t wild for Holistic Select’s wet food recipes, they were extremely enthusiastic over their dry food:…

  • Feline Holistic Select Wet Food: My Cats Try It

    When asked by email whether they’d like to review a particular cat food, both Choco and Oscar, being the gluttons they are, eagerly agreed. A package of Feline Holistic Select dry food and two cans of wet food arrived shortly thereafter.  (Coming up next, the review of Feline Holistic Select…

  • The Sad Truth About Ligers

    If you’re a lover of big cats, as well as our small feline kitty friends, you’d probably benefit from knowing the truth about ligers – created when a male lion and tigress breed. When visiting Big Cat Rescue last year, I snapped this image of their rescued liger, a handsome…

  • Lighten Your Cat’s Paw Print

    A few weeks ago, I told you about Purina’s donations to Keep America Beautiful. Today is special though. As part of the Together We Can Recycle campaign, Fancy Feast will donate $2 today (instead of just $1) for every recycling pledge they receive. If you haven’t pledged to recycle your…

  • Saturday’s Stairs: Wasps & Pods

    This issue of Saturday’s Stairs is bought to you by my cat in a basket, Choco. I replaced a glass fruit bowl with this wire basket for safety after the vase incident, but Choco thinks it’s his bed. In case you don’t know, I’m a fan of the always fun…

  • ASPCA Helps Animals in Tenn. Flood

    While most news stations are focusing on the massive flooding which hit Nashville, Tenn., there’s another city a two hour drive from Memphis that has been declared a major disaster area. That city is Dyersburg, Tenn. And it happens to be where I grew up! Though I no longer live…

  • Recycle Your Pet Food Cans. Win a Custom Pet Painting!

    A couple of days ago, we talked about encouraging pet food makers to use sustainably sourced fish, but there’s another really big thing you can do to save the earth when it comes to pets. Recycle those pet food cans. Recycling is so easy, and it’s habit-forming (in a good…

  • Save Some Fishes for Earth Day

    Maybe you’ve gone green in just about every way you can imagine in your personal life and household. But have you taken a look at your pet’s diet? I know what you’re thinking. Organic pet food can be expensive, but you have other choices if organic isn’t in the budget.…

  • Review: Little Skiff Books

    If you’re looking for smart books for kids with pets, especially dogs, then you’ll like the Little Skiff series from author Dany Pierard-Deviche, a former research biologist. I read the first two of five books in the Little Skiff series. Catch my plot summaries below. Little Skiff’s Moving Adventures Skiff,…