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11/05/09
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10/22/09
 As Halloween approaches, it’s easy to get caught up in the fun of it and forget about keeping your pets safe. Here are 13 tips on keeping your cat safe and happy on Halloween, courtesy of PetSmart and The Cat’s Meow:
- To ensure that your cat isn’t part of any Halloween mischief or pranks, don’t let her outside unattended, especially at night. Even if your cat does normally go outside, remember that on Halloween, she could get spooked by the loud noises and costumes, wander off and become disoriented.
- Your cat should wear a collar and name tag with your phone number and address on it all times — if she does get out of the house, at least you can be contacted. Microchipping ensures that if the collar is lost, you and your cat can be reunited.
- Candy is a hazard:
* Never leave candy or candy wrappers lying around or put it where your cat can get them. Small candy and errant candy wrappers are choking hazards and can cause intestinal blockage.
* Chocolate can be toxic to cats, and especially dogs. Symptoms of significant chocolate ingestion may include vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, increased thirst, urination and heart rate—and even seizures.
* Candies containing the artificial sweetener xylitol can be poisonous to pets. Even small amounts of xylitol sweetener can cause a sudden drop in blood sugar, which leads to depression, lack of coordination and seizures. In cases of significantly low blood sugar, liver failure has been known to occur.
- Confine your cat to one room in your house during parties or high-traffic trick-or-treating times. This way, you’ll be at ease when opening and shutting the door. And, if trick-or-treaters enter your home, your cat will be protected from pokes, prods and loud noises.
- Lit pumpkins and candles can easily be knocked over and burn your cat. Curious kittens are especially at risk for getting hurt. Use a special battery-powered Jack-o-Lantern light or an electric candle.
- Keep wires and cords from electric lights and other decorations out of reach of your pets. If chewed, your pet could damage her mouth from shards of glass or plastic, or receive a possibly life-threatening electrical shock.
- Instead of sharing any of your trick-or-treating loot, celebrate Halloween with your cat by giving him goodies made especially for her. You could even find a cat-specific recipe for making homemade treats. Another way to get in the spirit is to switch out regular toys with some Halloween-themed toys.
- If you plan to put a costume on your cat, try it on her well in advance of Halloween to see how she reacts to it. If she tolerates it without fuss, make sure that it fits well enough to allow her to see, breathe, hear and move around unencumbered.
- Most Halloween costumes for cats are best used for photographing the cat, then removing. NEVER leave a costume on a cat unattended.
- Resist the temptation to take your cat to a Halloween Pet Parade, unless she is extremely comfortable around barking dogs, shrieking kids and other noise. For most cats, it’s a little slice of hell. It’s much more humane to leave her at home and enter her in one of the many online Halloween photo contests — the PetSmart Howl-O-Ween photo contest, for example.
- If your cat is mellow enough to attend a Halloween Pet Parade, keep her in a harness and on a leash at all times.
- Resist the urge to take your pets trick-or-treating with you. Dogs especially are prone to picking up and eating candy or wrappers that have fallen to the ground, and in the dark, you’re unlikely to see it happen. Cats can be easily spooked by the noise and chaos and escape.
- Because most cats dislike loud noises and shrieking, keep a television or radio on for your cats throughout the evening on Halloween to drown out the neighborhood sounds.
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07/04/09
Happy Independence Day, evrybuddy, frum The Cat’s Meow!!!
I hope you’ll enjoy The Cat’s Meow’s 4th of July Purrade! The Grand Marshall of this year’s purrade is none other than Hazel Lucy!
Hazel Lucy is joined on the flote hedding up the purrade by the finalists in The Cat’s Meow’s 4th of July Purrade Foto Contest: Taz, Calvin, Daisy the Curly Cat, Wilson J Scooter, Rayna and Yolo:
Have a safe and sane 4th, everybody, and don’t forget to check back later to see who the lucky winner is!
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05/05/09
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03/24/09
Strap on those bunny ears, kitties, and say cheese. Martha Stewart’s Pet Site has just announced an Easter Photo Contest that promises to be a lot of fun. Upload your best Easter-themed photo and you could win the Grand Prize: twelve coupons for Purina One dog or cat food valued at $31 each (approx. retail value $403). Don’t eat Purina One? You can always donate the coupons to a local shelter.
Also on Martha Stewart Pets: you can enter to win two seats at Martha’s table when she is presented with the ASPCA Presidential Service Award April 23 in New York City. Yay, Martha!
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03/17/09
WE HAVE A WINNER! The winner of 20 zealies in a randum drawing frum the parade pawtisipants is Boots McBlooper! Concats, Boots!
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02/14/09
Happy Valentine’s Day Evrybuddy!
Heer at the Cat’s Meow, we’re sellubrating all weekend and we’d love to have yoo join in!
Ferstly, if yoo furgot to send yer valentine a card, yoo can click my image above and send a free e-card. It will be just like yoo planned it all along!
Secundly, over at Catster, thare’s a fenomenal 3-day intercontinental pawty going on! Wilson J Scooter and Baci are hosting a romantik Valentine’s Day trip to Paris, France! Wilson J is pikking up the tab, so hed on over and join in the fun! (Just don’t say merde cuz that’s on the Bad Werd List!)
Therdly, yoo still have time to enter my Valentine’s Day Contest! We’ve got grate prizes frum The Cat in the Clover, and it’s fun to see all the grate entries! Hoo knows, maybe thare’s a valentine to yoo thare!
Lastly, I will be publishing fotos of my reeders in thare best Valentine’s owtfits! If yoo have a valentine-theemed foto, send me a link to it and I’ll publish it this weekend. Yes, yoo red that rite! Yoo can be feecherd on The Cat’s Meow! And one submission will be picked at randum to win 10 zealies!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR! Go owt and whiff it!
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02/13/09
Hey, everybuddy, have a great Valentine’s Weekend, and don’t let this happen to you:
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02/09/09
 Hey, evrybuddy, Skeezix heer. This is a message JUST FUR CATS ‘N’ CRITTERS. Every yeer I sponser a Valentine’s Contest fur all online cats ‘n’ critters. It’s always a lot of fun, and yoo don’t have to have a sweethart in mind to enter: single cats hoo are looking fur love can post a “lonely harts” entry, and I’ll play matchmaker.
This yeer, the grand prize is a romantik dinner fur two, PLUS a grate Valentine’s Tie and Flirty collar frum “Cat in the Clover,” a Catster Marketplace shop run by Samoa, Violet, Calvin’s mom.
As if that wern’t enuf, I’m also giving away my titey whities as a booby prize, compleet with my smell on them: 
TO ENTER: Go to vd2009.blogspot.com
SINE IN INFO: Username: skeezix2007@gmail.com and pw: skeezix.
DEDLINE: 13 FEB at 11:59pm.
WINNERS ANNOWNST: Valentine’s Day
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01/01/09
 Hey evrybuddy, Skeezix heer. As many of yoo know, da grate Jeter Harris spends evry New Yeer’s in Times Sqware with his best frend Reebok and thare galcatpal, Madison. I was lucky enuf to score an interview with Jeter this morning — and he happily accommodated me despite having a big toona joose hangover.
SKEEZIX: How long have you and your best frend Reeb’ da Grate been sellebrating New Yeer’s Eve in Times Sqware? How did this tradishun begin?
JETER HARRIS: reeb an i hav been celebratin noo yeer’z eve since 2006. he haz been kind enuff to make da trip to timez skware. how did da tradishun begin? i dunno … it jus did. (i remember da furst yeer we were warin leis! it wuz reeb’z hawaiin theme dat yeer.)
SKEEZIX: You and Reebok live about 3000 miles apart…. how did you ever meet each other?
JETER HARRIS: reeb an i met eech udder on da catster. lookit him an den lookit me. hansum … yes? i dunno (again) we jus started bein frendz … an den, suddenly, like owtta noware, we became bes frendz. jus like dat! i keep askin an askin “do u know da way to san jose?” an i don’t getta anser … but he knowz da way to noo york…
SKEEZIX: Does Madison always sellebrate with yoo, or is she a new addishun?
JETER HARRIS: in fact, mad wuz wid us dat verree furst yeer at timez skware in 2006. lookit her … byootiful … yes? three tabbiez in da city.
SKEEZIX: Does having a girlcat along cramp your stile?
JETER HARRIS: cramp owr stile? duhr. she met a sailor dis yeer … i think maybe we cooda been crampin her style. (wut’z “cramp?”)
SKEEZIX: What did the three of yoo do once you got to Times Sqware?
JETER HARRIS: well … mad got dere furst to save us a seet … an den she met da sailor (but dat’zza nudder story) den reeb picked me up becuz i hav been “gfl*.” wen we got to da city da furst thing we did wuz look fer bill an hillary clinton … we were so eksited becuz we’re democatz … den we started drinkin tuna juice an watchin all da crazy peepul … wen da ball dropped an it wuz 2009, reeb an i head-bonked, fell to da grownd, an started wrestlin. it wuz verree eksitin. den, uv course, we laffed an laffed.
SKEEZIX: Sounds like a grate time! We all know about your reesint walkabout and your pleas to be freed from house arrest. Were yoo tempted, given this one-nite repreeve, to maybe not reetern home?
JETER HARRIS: well skeez, i am home. it wuz so c-o-l-d las nite … i decided dat i wood put up wid dat kitten joba an stay warm. but i havta say, mi frend, it’z hard to keep a former feral indoorz…
SKEEZIX: Any Cats-Gone-Wild storeys yoo’d like to share about times you’v had too much toona juice in Times Sqware? Or does whut goze on in Times Sqware stay in Times Sqware?
JETER HARRIS: cat’z-gone-wild? harharhar! yes i hav sum storiez … but mi mom will be reedin dis an i don’t wanna disturb her…
in udder nooz: i wanna thank u skeez fer yer grate collum. it’z intrestin an informativ. an da grate food lady herself (va va va voom) izza good reed, too.
happy noo yeer to u an yerz … an to all da grate catster catz … may u stay in da green in 2009!
SKEEZIX: I’m glad yoo enjoy The Cat’s Meow, Jete! I coodn’t do it withowt the support of grate frends like yoo. And thanks fur taking the time — despite yer hangover — to do this interview. I heer that Hair of da Dog helps. Altho I don’t ixzaktly know whut yer supposed to do with the dog hairs once yoo get ‘em.
(BTW, as most of yoo know, Jeter Harris is my spellin coach. Well, reesintly Jeter ternd me on to this grate software called Mikrosoft Werd, wich CHEKS YER SPELLIN FOR YOO! Unforchewnitly, Jeter pointed out to me that they haven’t gotten da bugs outta this software yet cuz evrything shows up underlined in red. I bet it will be amayzing once we can make da red underlines go away!)
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* gfl: Grownded fur Life
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