by The Paws and Effect Gang | Apr 24, 2016 | Cat Behavior, Cat Rescue, Traveling With Cats
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I have what I feel is a very important question and I really haven’t seen it addressed anywhere. I live in a major city where twice I barely made the cut not to have to evacuate my apartment. That said, I have a... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Dec 13, 2015 | Cat Behavior, Cat Rescue
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We bought a piece of property. While cleaning up the land we found three tiny kittens with their eyes still closed. We took them to the vet to get checked out. A few days later we saw the mom, who we named Emma, and we... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Nov 15, 2015 | Cat Health, Cat Rescue, Kittens
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I am fostering a mama and three kittens. How and when can we see their sex? They are a month old right now. How are we supposed to tell their sex? ~ Summer Thomas: Well, it is pretty difficult to determine a kitten’s... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Jul 5, 2015 | Cat Health, Cat Rescue
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My boyfriend and I were driving around at 1:00am when we spotted a kitten on the roadside next to a field (no houses around). When we stopped the car I could see the kitten was very small, maybe 4 weeks old at the most,... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Jun 14, 2015 | Cat Rescue, Cats and People
June is Adopt-A-Cat Month. Would you consider adopting an older cat? We both remember the day we got to go home. It was the best day of our lives! Even though we cried all the way there, in our hearts we were purring and purring because we knew somebody loved us as... 
by JaneA Kelley | Apr 22, 2015 | Cat Rescue, Cats and People, Sponsored
This post is sponsored by Hill’s. I am being compensated for helping spread the word about Hill’s® Food, Shelter, & Love® Program, but Paws and Effect only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. is not responsible for the...
JaneA Kelley is a punk rock cat mom and award-winning blogger. She is a regular columnist for Catster Magazine, and she and the Paws and Effect Gang share a home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.