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The Conscious Cat Won the Nose-to-Nose Award for Best Cat Blog

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I’m delighted to announce that The Conscious Cat won the coveted Nose-to-Nose award for Best Cat Blog!

The BlogPaws Pet Blogging and Social Media Nose-to-Nose Awards were created by the founders of BlogPaws to judge pet bloggers and people who write about pets online for their expertise, creativity, performance and achievements in one or more of 12 categories. Judging is done by a panel of industry professionals.Continue Reading

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Four in a Row: The Conscious Cat Wins the 2014 Pettie for Best Pet Blog

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Allegra, Ruby and I are excited to announce that The Conscious Cat won the 2014 Pettie for Best Pet Blog! This is our fourth Pettie win in a row, and we owe it all to you, our readers and friends.

We’re even more excited that this award comes with a $1000 prize, which will go to Kitten Associates, a Connecticut based rescue group founded by my dear friend and fellow Pettie winner Robin Olson of Covered in Cat Hair.Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat Wins Three Certificates of Excellence

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I’m delighted to announce that I was awarded three Certificates of Excellence in the Cat Writers Association’s annual contest. Each year, the contest recognizes the best of the best in the field of professional writers, broadcasters, photographers and graphic artists who have chosen cats as their subject.

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The Conscious Cat Awarded Three Certificates of Excellence

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I’m delighted to announce that I was awarded three Certificates of Excellence in the Cat Writers’ Association’s annual contest! The contest showcases the very best in the feline field of professional writers, broadcasters, photographers and graphic artists.

The certificates were awarded for the following articles:

A Team Approach to Caring for Cats with Cancer

Finding a Cat-Friendly Vet

I also received a Certificate of Excellence for my article Healing Purrs, published in the February 2013 issue of Cat Fancy Magazine.Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat Wins the 2013 Pettie for Best Pet Blog

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Allegra, Ruby and I are super excited to announce that The Conscious Cat won the 2013 Pettie for Best Pet Blog! And we’re even more excited that this award comes with a $1000 prize, which will go to Kitten Associates, a Connecticut based private rescue group founded by my dear friend and fellow Pettie winner Robin Olson of Covered in Cat Hair.

Thank you again to all of you who read this blog every day, and who voted tirelessly for an entire month to help us win this award. This award belongs to all of you!

Congratulations to all the other winners. I’d especially like to congratulate Robin Olson of Covered in Cat Hair for her Pettie for Best Blog Post for “Dear Fred,” a heart touching post about the kitten she lost to FIP.

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The Conscious Cat wins Muse Medallion

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I’m excited to announce that The Conscious Cat won a Muse Medallion for Best Website in the Cat Writers’ Association’s annual contest!

The contest showcases the very best in the feline field of professional writers, broadcasters, photographers and graphic artists. The Muse Medallions were awarded at the association’s annual conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. I wasn’t able to attend the conference this year, and just received my medal in the mail.

I’m very proud of this award, but it really belongs to you, my readers. Without you, I wouldn’t be inspired to write and blog every day and to bring you all the information you need to keep your feline family members (and yourself) happy and healthy. Thank you for being a part of the best community of cat lovers on the web!

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The 2012 Petties: trophy and acceptance speech

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While nothing quite equals the moment when Leslie Smith, the Editor for DogTime/CatTime Media, announced that The Conscious Cat won the 2012 Pettie for Best Cat Blog during the virtual award ceremony on October 12, there’s been a little more excitement even after the win. Since noone had more to do with us winning this award than all of you who read The Conscious Cat each and every day, I want to share all the fun with you.

A week ago, our trophy arrived in the mail. As you can see in the picture above, Allegra and Ruby approve! The beautiful statue joined last year’s award for Best Pet Blog on my desk, and inspires me to continue blogging every day.

DogTime/Cat Time Media asked each Pettie winner to record an acceptance speech. You can watch my speech below:Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat wins the 2012 Pettie for Best Cat Blog

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2012 Petties Best Cat Blog

Allegra, Ruby and I are excited and happy to announce that The Conscious Cat won the 2012 Pettie for Best Cat Blog! And we’re even more excited that this award comes with a $1000 prize, which will go to Kitten Associates, a Connecticut based private rescue group founded by fellow Pettie nominee Robin Olson of Covered in Cat Hair.

Thank you again to all of you who read this blog every day, and who voted tirelessly to help us win this award. This award belongs to all of you!

Congratulations to the other winners, especially our friends Deb Barnes of Zee&Zoey, Joanne McGonagle of The Tiniest Tiger, and Lorie Huston of Pet Health Care Gazette.

If you missed the ceremony, you can watch it here:Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat awarded four Certificates of Excellence

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The Conscious Cat was awarded four Certificates of Excellence in the Cat Writers’ Association’s annual contest! The contest showcases the very best in the feline field of professional writers, broadcasters, photographers and graphic artists.

The Conscious Cat received a certificate for the “Website” category.

I also received Certificates of Excellence for three individual articles in the categories of “Online Article – Health and General Care” and “Online Article – Behavior and Training.” The winning articles are:

Stomatitis: Painful for Cats, Frustrating for Guardians and Veterinarians

High-tech Medicine for Your Cat: MRI’s

Redirected Aggression: When Good Cats Attack

In addition to these four certificates, I was also awarded a certificateContinue Reading

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Help The Conscious Cat win BlogPaws’ Pet Blogging and Social Media Awards

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BlogPaws, the first online pet community to establish a conference designed entirely for pet bloggers, recently announced the First Annual BlogPaws “Nose-to-Nose” Social Media Pet Blogging Awards. Nominees will be judged by a panel of professionals on their expertise, creativity, and performance in one or more of 12 different categories.

I enjoy bringing you all the information you need to keep your cats and yourself happy and healthy, and I love the community of cat lovers this blog has created. If you appreciate us as much as we appreciate you, I’d be very grateful it if you would take a moment to submit a nomination for us.

Nominations will be accepted through Sunday, May 6.Continue Reading

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The Conscious Cat named one of the Top 5 Pet Blogs

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I am honored and excited excited that The Conscious Cat was named as one of the Top 5 Pet Blogs by SheKnows.com, one of the top 10 most visited websites for women!

“Cats are some of the most widely loved — and misunderstood — creatures out there. Luckily, websites like The Conscious Cat exist to give us feline lovers information we didn’t know we needed. For example: Did you know that you can over-vaccinate your cat? Neither did we, until the Conscious Cat told us. The blog came out of author Ingrid King’s love for her adopted cat, Buckley. She even wrote a book about the experience of adopting Buckley and the grief she went through when she succumbed to heart disease. Another must-read for all cat lovers.”

And we’re in some amazing company: the other four blogs are the I Can Haz Cheezburger empire, Continue Reading

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