Here’s why even the most stalwart shopper should be lured away from coupon-clipping this November 26th. For anybody who has ever looked longingly at the adoptable cats on the Best Friends website, but couldn’t figure out how to bring them home, your chance has come at last.

Pet Airways is going to make a special stop in Kanab to pick up all the animals chosen for adoption, and then will drop them off across the country — free of charge — to their new homes! This all happens during two days: Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. Doesn’t that beat waiting in line at 3:00 a.m. for crappy made-in-China stocking stuffers that will end up in landfill?

Here’s the goal: Best Friends hopes to have “26 home by the 26th,” or rather, at least 26 cats home by November 26th — Thanksgiving weekend. The drop-off points for the trip are as follows: On Thanksgiving Day, Pet Airways will be stopping at Denver, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; and Chicago, Illinois. At that point, they’ll stay the night in Chicago. On Friday, they will stop in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area and finally, in New York City (Long Island).

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Here are just a few of the adoptables looking for furever homes:

Raed

Scarlett

George

Little Sheba

Kendra

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Martha Stewart Pets has just launched its Santa Pets photo contest. A photo of your cat in yuletide finery could win you a year’s supply of Purina ONE pet food!

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[PHOTO: Tabby Girl]

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Find out more about adopting this holiday season through Iams Home 4 the Holidays Adoption Drive.

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Shutterfly has some great deals running this month – you can save a bunch on holiday cards, photo books, calendars and shipping.

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If you’re going to feature your cats on Holiday cards, photo books or a calendar, you should do it this week through Shutterfly and save 20%. Limited time only; no expiration date provided.

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This week, we’ll cover 13 Thanksgiving Costume ideas in our Thursday 13. With the holidays fast approaching, you cats need to cut down on the naps and focus and how you can be the star of your family’s Thanksgiving celebration.

The cat above, the interwebs sensation, Daisy the Curly Cat, is showing off her pilgrim attire. Her strict attention to detail has paid off in a stunning Mayflower ensemble. She even has a lifelike turkey prop which, unfortunately, is inedible.

The top three feline Thanksgiving costume options include the Pilgrim, the Indian, and the Turkey.

Tabby has gone for traditional Pilgrim attire above, but ate so much turkey she can’t get up. Make sure your costumes have enough room to accommodate a big meal.

Mao and Skeezix were pilgrims one year. As you can see, Skeezix rocks that pilgrim look.


Here’s Daisy again, but this time in a more casual Pilgrim look, with a sporty tee-shirt and hat. If you plan to romp around in the Autumn leaves before dinner, this is a good choice.

Scooter the Pilgrim Cat (above) shows off an authentic Puritan look, which is also worn by the Pilgrim cats below:

For every Pilgrim costume, there’s usually an Indian costume.

Ko nails the native American look:

As does this Indian Maiden cat:

Taz has been practicing his gobble-gobble for a stint as a turkey:

While this cat seems to be using the disguise to lure unwitting turkeys into his clutches:

If you’re just not into the whole costume scene, it’s purrfectly acceptable to arrive for dinner wearing an elegant sweater with a seasonal applique:

Whatever you do, don’t let someone trick you into wearing a chicken outfit instead of a turkey outfit! You’ll look like a real turkey if you’re dressed as a chicken on Thanksgiving!

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Hey, evrybuddy, Skeezix heer.

It’s the moment yoo’ve all been wating for: the annownsmint of the winners in The Cat’s Meow’s Halloween Costume Contest and Purrade.

We had a lot of amazing entries, and the judges had a hard time narrowing down the feeld to 8 finulists.

From those 8 finulists we drew an entry at randum, using random.org to determine the Grand Prize winner (in cases where multiple family members were finulists, they only got one entry in the drawing, per the roolz). But we’re also giving out a consolayshun prize to a non-finulist winner, and a vary speshul prize to one of the finulists for overall pawsomeness.

All the other finulists git sum zealies.

Drumroll, pleeze:

The consolation prize of 25 zealies given to a non-finalist, goes to Muppet:

The Grand Prize Winner of 50 zealies, a $25 Gift Card and a trophy goes to Chewy and her family, who also get a nod of recognishun for the most creative and funny entries:

And the special winner of the Best Group Entry and Award for Overall Pawsomeness goes to Mercy and the Gang who portrayed the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz. They win 50 zealies, a $25 Gift Card and a trophy.

Thanks to all hoo pawtisipated. Don’t furgit to enter your fotos in the World’s Coolest Cat Contest! You could win a Flip Ultra digital camcorder or other great prizes!

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Here are just a few of the best entries so far:

Calvin the King of Hearts (need to grab a hankie??)

Jacob as a Hairdresser

Baker the Beach Cat

Bonnie the Jester

Jack Kayden the Groom

King Louis the Sun King

You have until 11:59 pm on Halloween to enter. Grand prize includes a $25 gift card (to Petco, PetSmart, Amazon or Shutterfly), 50 zealies and a trophy (trophy for US and Canadian cats only).

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