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He Loves Me! He Truly Loves Me! The Story of Mupsie and Me and How We Came to Be!, written by children’s songwriter and author Devon Michael Sangiovann, follows a beautiful kitten with big blue eyes and a heart to match as he waits anxiously to meet the lucky human who will get to share all the love he has to give. As he waits and waits, Mupsie learns that sometimes finding a forever home doesn’t happen so easily.Continue Reading
Pam Johnson-Bennett is one of the best known cat behaviorists in the world. She began making house calls to work with clients on cat behavior problems in 1982 and had her first book published in 1990. Since then, she has led the way as an inspiration and mentor to many in the cat behavior profession and her books have been used as texts for professional behavior courses.Continue Reading
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I love Lucy Burdette’s Key West Food Critic mystery series. After all, what’s not to love! With cats, a tropical setting, and mouth-watering food (with some recipes included), this series has all the ingredients for purrfect escapist reading. And who doesn’t need to escape from reality these days!Continue Reading
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Last May, when Ingrid graciously invited me to write a guest post to celebrate the release of my Key West food critic mystery, A Deadly Feast, I chose to write about adopting my new kitten T-bone. He came from the Florida Keys SPCA and you can read that story here.Continue Reading
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Gwen Cooper’s Curl Up with a Cat Tale series features humorous and heartwarming short stories about the ongoing adventures of Gwen’s feline family. With every story, I discover something new and endearing about her cats. In this installment, Gwen takes a look back at the time when her precious Vashti became seriously ill.Continue Reading
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We are big fans of Angie Bailey. We pretty much love everything Angie does, whether it’s her weekly Feminine Hijinx Podcast, where she and co-host Susie Shubert talk about unconventionality, retro weirdness and more, her blog, and her Instagram, which frequently features tortie Janet. And of course, we love Texts from Mittens!Continue Reading
Children often experience death and grief for the first time when a beloved pet dies. Helping children through pet loss can be challenging for parents who are also coping with their own reaction to the loss. In Five Trees for Mina, Tony Lovitt sets out to help young readers and their parents deal with losing a pet.Continue Reading
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Coloring has been shown to be a major stress reliever. Studies show that the structured, rhythmic motion of coloring eases you into a meditative state, which allows you to push negative thoughts and worries out of your mind, and which induces a profound sense of relaxation. The benefits of yoga have been known to relieve stress for a very long time. We also know that simply being with a cat lowers our stress levels. So really, Cats Practicing Yoga offers you a triple dose of stress relief – and coloring is fun!Continue Reading
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You’ve come to know Sarah Chauncey through her compassionate writing about loss and grief here on The Conscious Cat over the past few years. After her heart-cat Hedda died in 2016, she wrote P.S. I Love You More Than Tuna, a beautifully illustrated and healing gift book which is available for pre-order now.Continue Reading
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Andrew Marttila is one of the most talented cat photographers I know. His images feature celebrity cats, shelter cats, and house cats with a level of detail that captures each cat’s essence. Andrew graduated with a degree in neuroscience, but he took a different career path when his social media took off while he was finishing school. In How to Take Awesome Photos of Cats, Andrew shares his wealth of knowledge about cat photography.Continue Reading
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Not surprisingly, as the author of two volumes of Purrs of Wisdom that are all about what we can learn from our cats, The Karma of Cats: Spiritual Wisdom from Our Feline Friends “had me at hello.” I knew I would love this book before I even turned the first page, and I wasn’t disappointed.Continue Reading