We’ve gone fishing so to speak which is why we’re late posting. One reason is the primo catnip which arrived from our friends Picardo and Coco. @picardotheprayingmantis advocates for feral and community cats in Indiana and Palm Beach Island. Oh, boy, it inspired some wild photos and art. All their catnip is donated to rescue organizations and benefits the feral cats
Ours cat don’t mind taking a break from our usual Monday post for this treat: Adventure Cats Q & A Plus Book Giveaway for Adventure Cats: Living Nine Lives To The Fullest. When we discovered Adventure Cats on Instagram last year, we knew we’d found kindred spirits. For the past six years of blogging at CatWisdom 101 we’ve espoused the advantages
We’re back from our blog break for now. Our regular schedule will resume when we return from BarkWorld/MeowWorld with all kinds of awesomeness. Out of the mountain of cat books I read every year, only a handful rise to top. They are the ones to savor late at night under the covers after a long day. During a gut-wrenching
When we received a review copy of The Best Cat Book Ever; Super Amazing, 100% Awesome by Kate Funk, our feline reviewer, Merlin took notice. The hefty hard cover book full of photos of a black cat named AC was something he had never seen before. Sure lots of people dress up their cats in costumes but Kate Funk is interested
Would you rather be reading? It’s National Read A Book Day but a shocking 23% of Americans read no books last year. Zero. Tim Hargreaves of Eyewashweb.com designed this tongue-in-cheek infographic for Quirkbooks on how to read a book in honor of Read a Book Day. Infographic re-printed with permission
New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee On This Francesco Marciuliano’s new book of poetry by kittens is squee-worthy. But wait! The prince of pet poetry and his kitty muses tell it like it really is. Yes, I Knead My Mommy And Other Poems by Kittens has oodles of cute pics of kittens in the same gorgeous, pocket-sized format
Come on, don’t you ever wish your cat could be as famous as Grumpy Cat, Lil BUB or Maru? Even if you don’t, you’ll love reading about the zany possibilities in How To Make Your Cat An Internet Celebrity: A Guide To Financial Freedom by Patricia Carlin with purrfectly funny photos by Dustin Fenstermacher. Since I’ve met some the biggest
We’re combining Saturday and Sunday this week into one big happy dance! We love all our new readers. We love comments. It’s how you can enter our book giveaway but you must scroll almost all the way to the bottom to where the comment box lives. Tomorrow is Dr. Seuss Day. I think most of us grew up reading The
Opening up the packages of cat books sent to us never gets old. Barron’s recently sent a spectacular selection and we’re featuring a massive, doorstop-of-book titled: Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds: A Complete Guide to Domestic Cats of North America by J. Anne Helgren. Just when you think there’s nothing new to learn about cat breeds, it’s a joy to learn feline facts
The secret is out! Cats everywhere tried to keep it from us but all is revealed in a funny and amewsing new book called the Whiskerlist: The Kitty Classieds by Angie Bailey, and were having a giveaway for two copies. It’s as if cats hijacked Craigslist for a kitty version for their own devious and shocking purposes. We reviewed it
At the BEA Book Expo in New York earlier this summer I met Donna Scott-Nusrala, the author of several children’s book. She gave me a copy of her latest book The Purr-fect Twitching Tale which I was thrilled to learn it came with a cat. No, not a real one but one of the ingenious ones from My Own Pet
If it’s Sunday, it must be another book review and another winner. Congratulations to Pam Kimmell, the winner of last week’s Cat and Crow Urban Tigers: Tales of a cat Vet by Kathy Chisholm is a novel laced with tidbits of true stories from the author’s thirty plus years experience managing her husband’s feline-only veterinary practice in Nova Scotia, Canada.