85-year-old great-grandmother, Ruby Stein, was driving home after visiting family, when she accidentally took a wrong turn in the mountains of Colorado and ended up at the end of a dead-end road where her car got stuck in the mud with no cell service and only her cat, Nikki, to keep her company. Ruby honked her horn […]
Did you learn something new in Part One: The Cats with Charm? Perhaps that Grumpy Cat isn’t a ragdoll or that Colonel Meow has nine inch long fur? If you haven’t read it, go take a look! Many things can make someone famous, such as being an internet star, helping out in politics, or just
St. Paul, Minnesota long-haul truck driver Paul Robertson was taking a break at a rest stop in Ohio to recover from a nasty bout of food poisoning. While he was asleep in the truck, his orange tabby feline co-pilot, Percy stepped on the power window switch and escaped out the window. When Robertson awoke and discovered
A friendly stray kitty just got herself some fancy new digs, courtesy of the Boston Police Department! Officers in the Mobile Operations unit have been caring for the adorable stray calico, that they’ve named SWAT (of course!), since she wandered up to the BPD Special Weapons and Tactics base back in 2013 and never left. According to
Let’s get ready to SNUUUUGGGLLLLLE!! We’re just days away from the fourth annual Kitten Bowl! Wouldn’t you rather see kittens battle it out on the gridiron, than a bunch of sweaty men in tights? On Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5, starting at 12pm/11C, Hallmark Channel opens its stadium doors to the greatest feline showdown in cable television history,
After years of struggling, the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers are starting to rack up several consecutive and impressive wins – cause for their fans to go wild on social media! Fans have begun sharing photos of themselves lifting their cats into the air to celebrate the team’s victories. The craze started after one fan was inspired by injured rookie Ben Simmons’
When Wesley T. Monkey saw Penny the cow was nearing the end, the feline remained at her side, purring and cuddling until she passed away. Wesley T. Monkey is there for all of his animal friends at the Indraloka Animal Sanctuary in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania. The sanctuary houses nearly 100 cats but Wesley has the biggest purr-sonality of
It must be a sign of the times. Gone are the days of tossing a kitty a catnip toy and calling it a day – today’s tech-savvy felines demand more! Technology has finally made it’s way into one shelter in Saskatchewan, Canada. Last month, the Regina Humane Society launched the “iPads for Cats” program to help bring
2016 brought us The Olympics, an election, some major losses… and lots of cat news! Nearly 1,000 stories, product reviews, and heartwarming tales of cat rescue hit our homepage this year. Thanks for being here with us through all of it! Here are the 10 most popular stories we published in 2016: Los Angeles Permanently Bans the Sale
Glenda Taylor DeLawder, who died in November 2015, was a huge animal lover. Her final gift to all the animals in her hometown of Elizabethton, Tennessee was to bequeath her entire $1.2 million estate to care for them. Around $500,000 of that will go to the Elizabethton Carter County Animal Shelter, who will use the much
