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Tuxedo Cat Starts Website to Advocate for Other Tuxies

February 21, 2018 By: Tara Wilhelmina Kelley1 Comment

Black and white cats make up 75 percent of the cats in the world, which makes it hard for them to stand out at adoption time. But there's a new website for tuxedo cats and their fans, and in this post we interview the founder of that site.

Hi everyone! Did you know that 75 percent of the cats in the world are black and white? Of course, some of us are more black and some of us are more white, but the fact that there are so many of us makes it hard for us to stand out at adoption time. But […]

What Inspires Me to Give Back? You Do!

December 24, 2014 By: JaneA Kelley2 Comments

Thomas and Bella snuggled together, surrounded by a border of evergreen boughs and poinsettias

Although this is the season of giving and gratitude, I make a practice of conscious gratitude every day. Other than the cats who have shared my life, I’m grateful for many things. I’m grateful to have lost my job in the winter of 2003. That sounds like a weird thing to be grateful for, but if […]

An Open Letter to Belladonna’s First Family

October 19, 2014 By: JaneA Kelley13 Comments

Bella and Thomas snuggling

Hi everyone. The cats have generously allowed me to take over this week’s column to write a letter of my own. To help BlogPaws celebrate Adopt a Shelter Pet Month, I want to talk to the people who adopted Belladonna before I did. First of all, thank you for adopting a cat from your local […]

I Want You … to Adopt an Adult Cat

June 5, 2014 By: Thomas T. Bombadil32 Comments

Love waits, I watch you go by my cage and wonder what it would be like if I were your cat.

Hi folks, Thomas here with a very important announcement. You may not know this, but June is Adopt-a-Cat Month, a time when shelters and rescues all across the U.S. gear up to get as many cats into forever homes as they can. It totally makes sense that Adopt-a-Cat Month is in June because after all, […]

I Met My Tribe at BlogPaws, and Parting Is Sweet Sorrow

May 10, 2014 By: JaneA Kelley17 Comments

JaneA and fellow cat bloggers at BlogPaws 2014

So, the 2014 BlogPaws conference is coming to an end. The last workshops are going to be starting in about an hour, and this evening the winners of the prestigious Nose to Nose Pet Blogging Awards will be announced. The end of the conference is bittersweet for me because through this conference I’ve met people […]

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About the Author: JaneA Kelley is a punk-rock cat mom, science nerd and all-around geek with a passion for bad puns, intelligent conversation, and role-play adventure games. She gratefully and gracefully accepts her status as chief cat slave for her family of feline bloggers. She is also a contributing author for Catster, a lifestyle magazine for cat lovers. Read More…

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