Category: General

Total 34 Posts

Road Warriors: Car Rides with Kitty

At one time or another, most cat people will wind up making a long drive with kitty. But even for the most seasoned feline traveler, car rides are rarely fun. When you think about it, this is understandable: your cat was minding her own business when you suddenly put her into a box, then put that box into a bigger box that also moves, and then made her stay in the box for what seemed…

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Midnight (now Muffin) Update – New Paw Coming Soon!

OnThe Cat Connection is pleased to update y’all on Midnight, the three-pawed kitten in need of a prosthetic limb. To date, the cat community has generously contributed $1,700 to Midnight’s prosthetic fund, enough to start him on his journey to four paws. We are so grateful for the support of our friends as Midnight heals. New paw coming soon! Unfortunately, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the mold for Midnight’s prosthetic was delayed on its way…

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Preparing Your Cat for Boarding

For so many cat lovers, making arrangements for your cats while you are away from home can be at best stressful and time consuming, and at worst panic attack-inducing, with a touch of guilt thrown in for good measure. The agony of writing down exactly how kitty needs to be cared for (“Be sure to feed Snowball from the bowl in the kitchen and Rocket Raccoon – the kids named him – from the bowl…

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Updates! Midnight the Three-Pawed Kitten

Wow. Just wow. Yet again, you all prove that the cat community is a kind and compassionate one. Just two days ago, the Cat Connection posted a plea for funds to help provide a series of prosthetic paws to Midnight the three-pawed kitten. Well, in less than 48 hours, you all donated $1,109 via Midnight’s GoFundMe campaign! Let that sink in. $1,109. WOW! $1,109 is more than one third of our goal of $3,100! With…

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Midnight the Kitten: Four Paws for the Holidays

Meet Midnight: The Three-Pawed Kitten Who Needs Your Help As many of you know, the Cat Connection has a long history of working with local Dallas-Fort Worth animal shelters to foster cats in need of homes. It’s a wonderful arrangement: the cats get a break from the shelter and are exposed to many potential adopters; the shelter gets a brief reprieve from the cost of caring for the cats, as the Cat Connection provides food,…

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Why Cats are Associated with Halloween

We’ve all seen it: the snarling, hissing black cat figure of Halloween that has been a staple of the holiday for more than a century. For many, this comically scary representation of our beloved house cats is as much a part of Halloween as ghosts, candy corn and pumpkins. But few know the fascinating intricacies of the cat’s relationship with the holiday, a history that goes a long way to understanding the way we regard…

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2015 Halloween Kitty Contest Winners!

After hours of deliberation attempting to select the winner of the 2015 Cat Connection Halloween Kitty Contest, we totally just gave up and randomly drew names. Behold and be afraid! The Winner: San-D submitted by Catherine Harris! We thought your kitty bore an uncanny resemblance to the alien robot Pierce Brosnan of The World’s End. Congratulations! The Runner Ups: Caleb submitted by Danelle Frost doing his best E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial impression! And Locke submitted by Ashley Lungwitz…

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Cat Safety Tips for Halloween (known to your cat as the terrifying day of small shrieking humans where the doorbell won’t stop ringing)

It’s almost Halloween! YES!!! Halloween is the holiday of so many great things: candy, trick-or-treating, scary movies, spooktacular lawn decorations, candy again… an excuse to buy all kinds of Halloween-themed cat toys (as if we needed an excuse). However, as great as Halloween can be for people, it can be just as terrifying and dangerous for pets, particularly cats. So to help keep your kitties safe, the Cat Connection has compiled this list of Halloween tips. Keep your cat…

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Costumes: Your Cat Hates Them

Yup, it’s that time of year again. From October through December, normally well-adjusted pet parents go a little crazy, dressing up their cats, dogs and… iguanas, we guess… in costumes that range from the most elaborate homemade creation to the worst last-minute store-bought mess. To put it bluntly: it’s weird. Unsurprisingly, the Cat Connection is regularly asked why we don’t sell costumes, antler ears, Santa hats, etc., during this time, especially when the larger pet supply…

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The Dallas Cat Café Returns with Paws in the City!

Now that all of us, feline and human alike, at the Cat Connection have recovered from the whirlwind success of August and September’s cat cafés, we’ve decided to get back to work and help more kitties find their forever homes. Let’s do this, DFW! So please, join us this Saturday, October 17th, from 11 AM to 4 PM at the Cat Connection! Our featured shelter will be Paws in the City, a volunteer-run, no-kill shelter…

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