Category: Cats

Posts just about cats.

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Podcast Episode 101 – Me

Woohoo!  Here’s the first Pet Project Podcast!!  The first ones give you a chance to get to know me.  In the future we’ll have interviews, discussions, advice, and anything that strikes my interest.

You can listen to it here and it will be up on iTunes later next week.  We also have an RSS feed you can subscribe to if you use an RSS reader.

In Episode 101 – Me you will:

Get to know Sarah and how she started Pet Project Blog.  Sarah talks about her early life with animals – – cats, rabbits, horny toads – – and about desperately wanting a dog.

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Check out Episode 102 – MeMe & Episode 103 – MeMeMe.

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Pet Food Recall: Wellness Canned Cat Food

Wellness announced a recall due to possible inadequate levels of thiamine (B1). The products affected by the recall are:

Wellness Canned Cat Food

  • All flavors & sizes:  best by dates 14APR 13 – 30SEP13
  • Chicken & Herring (all sizes):  best by dates 10NOV13 or 17NOV13

Only cats who were feed only food from the affected lots are at risk for thiamine deficiency. Symptoms include:

  • Ventroflexion (bending in a downward position) of the neck
  • Muscle weakness
  • Ataxia (wobbly walking)
  • Seizures
  • Fixed, dilated pupils
  • Paralysis of the muscles around the eye

Interestingly, they are recalling all product manufactured during the time in question in order to avoid confusion.  They also made the announcement on a Monday instead of pulling a “dump & run” —a trick a lot of companies use of issuing a press release late on a Friday so the story gets lost in the news cycle.  And I’ll give them points to for having a link to the recall info. on the home page.  Some companies just file their recalls under “News”.

If you have cat food from these lots, you should stop feeding it to your cats. Call WellPet at 1-877-227-9587 to arrange for return of the product and reimbursement.

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Cats + Women = Social Partners

Our cat Raven working hard to get me to keep petting her.

Discovery News has a really interesting article on a new study about our relationship with cats.

The researchers determined that cats and their owners strongly influenced each other, such that they were each often controlling the other’s behaviors…

They also found that cats initiate interactions with their female owners more often than their male owners and women have more “intense relationships” with their cats than do men.

I found it especially intersting that apparently:

Cats also seem to remember kindness and return the favors later. If owners comply with their feline’s wishes to interact, then the cat will often comply with the owner’s wishes at other times.

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Friday Fun: The Box Which Maru Can’t Enter

You’re getting 2 Friday Funs today, because if there’s something I can’t resist, it’s a video of Maru the cat & a video of a dancing baby goat.  Something to remember if you ever need to bribe me.

First, we have Maru and a very crafty box.

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