Sarah Marchildon, a blogger on the Hollywood North Report, is attending a university in Japan and has discovered the neatest new thing for felines in Kyoto that I have heard about in a long time — a “Cat Cafe.”
A Cat Cafe is a place where you pay the equivalent of $5 to go in and sip coffee in a cafe-like [...]
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Visit with a cat in a Japanese “cat cafe”
One million pets at risk of being homeless
The current U.S. financial crisis has the potential to grow into a serious animal welfare issue, warns executive vice president of ASPCA programs, Dr. Stephen Zawistowski. As households across the country are caught in the economic downturn, an estimated 500,000 to one million cats and dogs are at risk of becoming homeless.
“According to national financial [...]
FDA recall on peanut butter affects pets too
Pet treats are being impacted by the FDA’s recall on peanut butter products.
Salmonella contamination has been traced to a plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), a distributor of peanut butter and peanut paste – a concentrated product consisting of ground, roasted peanuts. “Peanut butter is often used in small amounts as an occasional reward for dogs, commonly [...]
What does “no-kill” really mean when it comes to pet overpopulation?
The phrase “no-kill” has been bantered about in many communities as the end goal in the game of tackling pet overpopulation. Few people, however, know what the term really means. Most people think it means the halting of all euthanasia of dogs and cats for good, but it’s meaning is quite different than that, depending on whether [...]
Cat groomer recycles cat hair into purses
When Danelle German sees a Persian Cat come into her grooming salon, her heart skips a beat. That’s because many people want their Persian cats shaved for easy maintanence and Danelle uses the leftover hair in a lucrative recycling business. She spins the cat hair into a silky yarn to produce one-of-a-kind handbags that sell for between $45 and $400. She apparently has sold [...]
