Archive for the ‘Cats’ Category
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Everyone can use at least 17 seconds of amusement. The Surprised Kitty Cat video has had more than 3,000,000 views on YouTube.
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
More bad news on the economic front.... A friend from Chicago sent this email today:
How Bad is the Economy?
CATS ARE SO DRAMATIC!!
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
My friend, photographer Douglas Sandberg, alerted me to a unique musical purrformance. CATcerto, a collaboration between Nora the Piano Cat and Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis is performed by the Klaipėda chamber orchestra, featuring piano soloist Nora the Cat:
Four-year old Nora is a prodigy by anyone's standards. From humble beginnings, baby ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
July 19-25, 2009, is Best Friends Week, marking the 25th anniversary of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). The mission of Best Friends can be summed up in one phrase: No More Homeless Pets. The organization is a grassroots network of people and groups that care for and about animals.
In ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh has an Abyssinian cat named Punkin. His girlfriend recently got an Old English Sheepdog puppy named Abbey. Punkin and Abbey have met, and are getting along well together. As Mr. Limbaugh explained on his radio show on Monday, "The dog's been over to the house. You ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has a new line of pet care products, the ASPCA Collection, available at Wal-Mart.
"With the introduction of the ASPCA Collection, Wal-Mart is taking another step in its commitment to help its customers save money and provide quality care to ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
The CATalyst Council, a coalition of veterinarians, scholars, corporations and animal welfare organizations, has come out with the Top 10 Cat Cities in the United States. Twenty-five metropolitan areas were analyzed based on per capita cat ownership, level of veterinary care and microchipping, and cat-friendly local ordinances. The 10 best ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Hotel and Real Estate tycoon Leona Helmsley suffered the ignominy of a prison sentence for living by the same philosophy that Timothy Geithner has parlayed into the post of Treasury Secretary in Barack Obama's Cabinet : "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes ..." To add insult ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Americans like to travel with their pets. Travel Agent Central (TAC) reports that 76 million dogs and cats will travel with their owners this year. TAC cites a finding by the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that of 2 million animals traveling in the cargo ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Popular radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has joined forces with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to battle animal cruelty. Mr. Limbaugh, who has a beloved cat named Punkin, speaks out for animals in two Public Service Announcements recorded for the HSUS.
Anti-Cruelty PSA #2
Faith Outreach - Animal ...
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