Bella the cat may have used up one of her 9 lives. Just after the holidays, retired captain Deputy Mike Scott of the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana responded to a call for help about a cat that was stuck between a garage door and a wall. “Never in all of my years was […]
While our future commander-in-chief is often blasted for his off-the-wall social media antics – he finally did something The Catington Post can get behind. President-Elect Donald Trump followed the popular cat-centric Twitter account @EmrgencyKittens. Really, the jokes practically write themselves. Trump only follows 42 accounts – so it’s no surprise that the internet took notice when Emergency Kittens became lucky
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
“I hate this cat and this cat hates me — and my wife hates her, too.” That’s what this cat’s owner told the Humane Society of New York when he finally decided to “get rid of” the cat he’d kept confined to the attic of his home for the past 13 years. With little to
A video posted to Facebook showing a grown man while he excitedly unwraps a PlayStation 4 when a cat jumps up and attacks him has gone viral – seen over 86 million times and counting! Andrew Woodward, of Macon, Georgia, was excitedly ripping the wrapping paper off his new PlayStation 4 and yelling, “I got a Playstation!
We all would love to take our beloved kitties on vacation with us, but it’s usually not a viable option – especially if you’re traveling internationally, to a place like New Zealand that has fairly strict rules in place when it comes to crossing their borders with animals! Well, a Canadian woman just couldn’t bear to
A teenager found an early Christmas present under the tree last week. 17-year-old Danielle Lopez found her cat, Tink, curled up under the tree with a newborn kitten. Then, with her humans’ help, the cat named Tink gave birth to three more baby kittens. The Lopez family rescued Tink as a stray and nursed her back
Allie the cat went missing while her owner was on vacation – 11 years ago. “After she disappeared,” owner Karen Jarnecic told the Omaha World Herald, “I didn’t know if she was hit by a car or had died. I just hoped for the best.” That was, until she got a call last month from
The Catington Post and our sister site, The Dogington Post, teamed up with Halo Pets and award-winning author and talk radio host, Tracie Hotchner to bring readers a live, free, one-hour long webinar and Q & A all about holiday safety last holiday season, and the information here is just as important today as it
