World Spay Day - February 25

Every year, millions of cats and dogs find themselves in shelters. Even here in the middle of nowhere, we have problems with cats and too many puppies! World Spay Day tells us there is a simple solution: spaying or neutering your pets.
Not only does this curbs the rapid reproduction rates — with dogs and cats breeding at rates 15 and 45 times faster than humans and it reduces the number of animals that end up homeless or euthanized.

Spaying and neutering is a solution. It is a simple answer not only prevents unwanted births but also enhances the health and safety of pets, reducing their urge to roam and the risks that come with it.

World Spay Day makes us think beyond the immediate and to consider the wider impact of our choices. Established in 1995, World Spay Day is more than an annual event; it’s a heartfelt call to action that is celebrated every fourth Tuesday of February, with 2025 marking the day on February 25.

Sigh, Mary and Mom are still trying to capture Lucifer (the cat that was abandoned in our neighborhood) so that he can be neutered. Mary has a heated hut for him (where he can spend time when it is cold). but he is very elusive to knows all the tricks to escape! He even has the lady at the local shelter befuddled. But we shall persevere.

Lucifer February 24 2025 - visiting in the backyard

October Events and What is SPECIAL this Month

 

 

October is a busy month! Please click on the above October Events badge to be taken to the October page. Here you can find the grphics sized to 300x300. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did in making them for the Cat Blogosphere and our Woofie Furrends!

First up, October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month!

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month is part of the ASPCA's Rescue Effect. Adopt One. Save Another. That's The Rescue Effect. When you adopt or foster an animal, you make an impact that ripples throughout shelters nationwide — saving that animal’s life makes room for others. Helping one animal is just the start. Mom says she has shared her life with 10 woofies. 6 of them have come from shelters.

Black Cat Awareness Month

 

Our very own Layla Morgan Wilde, a holistic cat expert, pet industry consultant, and founder of the popular blog Cat Wisdom 101, noticed that there was nothing dedicated to our sable feline companions on a national level. So, she launched the non-profit initiative Black Cats Tell All to promote black cat adoption. Such an observation was welcomed by animal lovers, as superstitions surrounding black cats have run rampant for centuries. Click here to go to Cat Wisdom 101.

Right now we have 2 black cats in our life. Mr Kozmo (who is actually a Tuxie) and Lucifer who we are trying to trap.

Pet Wellness Month

This month was designed as National Pet Wellness Month by the American Veterinary Medical Association. It was created as a way to help us, as pet owners, to stay mindful of all of the ways that we can keep our pets healthy. Our pets don’t have a way to tell us when they aren’t feeling well, so we need to support the overall health of our pets and learn how to identify problems as they arise.

This week is National Dog Week

Walk Your Dog Week aims to improve the health and well being of America's dogs and sends the message to unchain your dogs!"With more and more people becoming sedentary and gaining weight due to a lack of exercise, say's Colleen Paige, founder of the day. Too many dogs don't get the necessary outlet they need to stay physically and mentally healthy. I feel that part of the overpopulation of dogs in this country is hugely associated with our growing waistlines. Generally, the less a person exercises, the less their dog exercises. Having trained thousands of dogs, it's my estimation that at least 75% or more of dogs in shelters are there, due to a lack of exercise, which has resulted in serious behavior issues such as aggression, destruction and separation anxiety. Click HERE to learn more about Walk Your Dog Week!

Our Canine sister is a SUPER Walker! Her and Mom go walking usually 3 times a day. Not only does it keep them both slim and trim, but they know almost all our neighbors and all the dogs (and some of the cats) on their circuits.

Walking at 6 am to beat the heat in September

 

 

Meow! (or Bark) Like a Pirate Day!

 

  

We have so much fun being Pirates, Kozmo and I thought we would repeat some of our ARRR-Some Jokes!

Do YOU know any pirate jokes?  Tell us your favorite!

We have mentioned that our furrend Lucifer was left behind to fend for himself when his owner moved. Mom and her furrend Mary have been trying for 2 months to trap him so he can be neutered. We hope that he will then become a gentleman (like Merel and Lindy our neighbourhood cats) who Mom and Mary caught a couple of years ago. Lucifer will come back and live with Merel and Lindy where it is nice and warm and the Racoons can't eat his food before he gets a chance to eat it (Mom has been feeding him outside where he used to live, he is super skittish and won't let anyone near him.) It is starting to get cold at night.

We are so Thankful we have a PAWSOME home to live in and that we are part of the Cat Blogosphere!

We are pawticipating in Thankful Thursday at Brian's Blog. Click on the button to see all the other Thankfuls! 

Thanks Everyone for coming to my Birthday!

 

 Thanks so Furry Much for your wonderful birthday wishes!

I had the best birthday ever! You guys are all the best furrends a cat could wish for. 

In honor of my birthday, we are donating to our local cat rescue. They are in a town about 45 minutes away and they lend out cat traps, spay and neuter and chip and tip the adult cats. Right now we are trying to capture Lucifer (the black cat across the street). Lucifer is an intact male (about 5 years old) and is semi feral. He has a territory that he sprays almost everyday. This has made some people quite irritated. 

Like many places, right now our areas shelter is bursting at the seams, so Lucifer will be coming back to Midway. When he gets back after his snip, chip and tip, we would like to get Lucifer eating his meals with Merle and Lindy -- the semi ferals that "live" in Ms M's shop and backyard.  Lucifer gets along on with all of us other cats -- each house on our street has at least 1 cat (because of all the rodents). 

Lucifer's owner was the same man (Mr T) we got Nutmeg from. 11 days ago Mr T moved to Saskatchewan and left Lucifer behind. Mom (and her friend Ms M) got a trap from the cat rescue and Mom has been trying to capture him for a week. Lucifer has evaded the clutches of the cat trap (though Mom has caught 2 Stellar Jays and a small Raccoon). Tonight, because it is my Birthday, Mom has pulled out all the stops! Besides the crunchies she has put out sardines. Yes, the same sardines I had for my birthday dinner. 

We are hoping Lucifer allows us to capture him soon. The people who own the house (that he used to live in) want to tear it down. They have been cutting down all the trees around the house and this has really upset poor Lucifer and made him more skittish than he was before. If you have any great ideas on how to catch a skittish cat, without a trap (the rescue says we can keep it 4 more days), please let us know, Mom is starting to run out of ideas. 

See! I'm not afraid of Nutmeg! Even if she talks back.

 

 

The sardines were a bust! 

We teased Lucifer with sardines in a dish outside the trap earlier in the evening AND he ate them, but he (and the raccoons) refused to enter the trap. Today, the sardines are in a dish outside the trap and we will put some inside again tonight, if he eats them....