Cattin' Around Pet Sitting

29/09/2021

So hilarious!!!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/YOsVpoe5tzY

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07/06/2021

Just some FACTS about the law in the event that you may need to quote them for the “cat haters” in our wicked world.

It doesn’t matter if the CAT is owned, free-roaming or lost/abandoned…

09/04/2021

01/01/2021

Let's Ring in the new year and put 2020 behind us! But let's be considerate of our furry friends! Happy New Year!

11/12/2020

For any person that loves and respects animals, it breaks our hearts. The animal cruelty needs to stop.Congress has heard our cries loud and clear

07/12/2020

🎶🐈🎄🐈🎶

12/11/2020

Join us for our socially distanced, appointment-based, low-cost vaccine clinic on November 14th! Besides keeping your pet healthy with vital vaccines, we are keeping you healthy with a few tweaks to our clinic process.

This vaccine clinic will be BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. To ensure the safety of our staff and visitors, we cannot accept walk-ins during this clinic. Only those with scheduled appointments will be seen.

You can learn more and schedule an appointment here: https://aawl.org/events/appointment-based-low-cost-vaccine-clinic-november-14th

10/11/2020

🙀🚫🍃🌿🐈🌱🌾⚠️🙀

⚠️Poinsettias and lillies are toxic to cats also.

13/10/2020

Too cute

😹🐈🐁👞😹

06/10/2020

** UPDATE ** DOG HAS BEEN FOUND AND IS SAFE **
THANK YOU FOR MUCH FOR ALL THE SHARES!!!

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EXTREMELY URGENT ** PLEASE READ!!!!
** NEEDS TO GO VIRAL IMMEDIATELY **
This dog's owner was murdered a couple nights ago in Scottsdale. He's surely traumatized by what he witnessed, and on top of it, the he has cancer. Was wearing a diaper when he escaped. Serious medical condition. He was picked up by someone and is likely receiving very good care, but his family is looking for him. Please share. Finder likely had the dog scanned but owner's phone is locked in Evidence by the police so the calls are mistakenly going unanswered. Please share ... so important!

04/09/2020

Lori’s LampPost
Snakebites and Cats
Lori B. Girshick

Cats have a much higher survival rate than dogs do when it comes to snakebites, and there are several reasons for this. Here I’ll be summarizing the information from an article by Dr. Karen Becker found at

https://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2020/07/23/ snakebites-in-pets.aspx? cid_source=petsnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200723Z1&mid=DM60028 7&rid=922744932.

This article has some statistics from studies.

For one thing, dogs’ blood clots faster than cats, which makes them more vulnerable to snake venom than it does cats. In fact, cats have a survival rate than is twice that of dogs. Another issue is how they behave. Dogs have their noses to the ground and sniff around; meaning they are more likely to get a bite on the nose or mouth, which is a highly vascularized area of the body. Cats, on the other hand, might swat at a snake with their paws. Dogs are also more active than cats, meaning the venom can travel in their bodies faster.

Just from those issues you can see that we need to get our pets care after a snakebite, even more immediately for a dog than a cat. In terms of response, this article recommends you keep your cat or dog as quiet as possible and the area of the bite below the heart level. Don’t apply a tourniquet or ice. This calls for a trip to the emergency animal hospital. It is not recommended to give Benadryl (1 mg per pound of body weight) but some people will do that.

Your cat or dog may have been bitten by a snake if you see swelling, bleeding, pain, weakness, shortness of breath, or low blood pressure. Here in the desert where HART operates, we live in an area with venomous snakes, so we should be vigilant. Snakes aren’t only on the hiking trail where you might be with your dog, but can be in your backyard. Hopefully, we are all keeping our cats in the house or in a secure patio area.

17/08/2020

So cute, hoping for great humans to love them.

Frida and Diego are ready for adoption! These two must be adopted together. They have a condition called radial hypoplasia – improper development of the radius bone in their front legs. Frida and Diego are lucky survivors, and don’t know they are any different. They love to play with toys and are able to climb up a small cat tree. Surgery is not recommended for them and they should be able to lead long healthy and happy lives. They are still a bit shy, so they need a more quiet family who has the time to work on making them feel safe. Please send us an adoption questionnaire, if you'd like to welcome them home. http://members.petfinder.com/~AZ237/ALFAdoptionApplication.html

07/08/2020

07/07/2020

Lol

07/07/2020

I remember the ones I have bottle fed.

28/06/2020

Thinking it over.

26/06/2020

In case you didnt know.

LORI’s LampPost

What’s Up with Marking Behavior?
by Lori B. Girshick

If you have a cat, you can’t miss their marking behavior activity. While cats do vocalize to a certain extent, the most common way they let you and others know what’s what is through marking. This includes scenting, urine marking, scratching, rubbing, head bunting, f***l marking (called middening), and kneading (aka making biscuits). Your cat is quite busy establishing her territory, leaving clues for friends and foes, claiming territory, people or objects, and defending territory.

Cats have amazing sense of smell, 14 times stronger than that of humans. Scent is everything to a cat—survival, food sourcing, identifying friends and enemies, and identifying territory. When we see our cat opening her mouth while smelling she is using an organ (Jacobson’s organ) at the roof of her mouth to analyze pheromones. So, we can see why scenting is everything when it comes to marking behavior.

Urine marking is very common form of marking territory. It differs from urinating because when scenting (or spraying), the cat is upright and she marks a vertical surface with a small amount of urine. With urinating, she is squatting on a horizontal surface and leaving a larger amount of urine (most of the time, that is). Ingrid King reminds us that spraying is a common natural behavior even though we humans don’t like it! It is not done out of spite, and is usually done by unaltered male cats.

Cats’ paws have scent glands and scratching leaves markers on territory. So while your cat is stretching her muscles, removing dead sheaths from front claws, and exercising paws, she also is marking.

I love it when my cats head bunt or rub their faces against me. It feels like a love fest. But, the cats actually have another motive. They are marking me, or whatever object they are bunting against. They have scent glands on the side of their faces. It’s ok, because I am “all theirs” anyway!!!

Now, middening, or f***l marking, is not my favorite type of marking. We see this mostly in outdoor cats who p**p and don’t cover up, marking the territory as theirs. We see this a lot at our feral colony feeding stations, and it isn’t too common with inside cats.

Kittens start kneading behavior when nursing and basically claim the ni**le as theirs. After weaning, we know cats continue to knead and we see it as a happy behavior. Really, they are just telling us, this is MINE!

Thanks to Ingrid King, former veterinary manager and writer, for her article on this topic. Check out her column called The Conscious Cat. You can subscribe to it at www.consciouscat.com.

Ingrid also reminds us that some marking behavior can be symptoms of a medical problem with your cat needing a vet visit and/or requires changes in your household.

26/06/2020

I thought I had seen everything...

19/06/2020

Please spay and neuter.

15/06/2020

Kitties and Owls, how cool is that.

06/06/2020

😻

😄❤️🦁

04/06/2020

Please

04/06/2020

Smile

03/06/2020

This is beautiful. Share with those that may need it.

29/05/2020

Los Gatos kittens up for adoption.