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A FELINE SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Will you disable to help the disabled?

You may not know that there are a number of active bloggers who live with some form of disability.  For example, Carly – the human owned by TIA suffers from blindness, making blog visiting and commenting often difficult.  Our own ML — who is managed by KC and the Sherwood Bunch — has back problems which often prevent her from sitting at a computer for any length of time.  And Ann, the Zoolatry Human, has hand tremors which affect her typing ability more often than not.  For each of us (and many others) commenting can be difficult — especially if we must also complete “word verficiation”, type in our email address, or type in our blog link — all before being allowed to comment.
Once upon a time, in the early days of Google Blogspot, word verification and such were the only controls we had against spam.
Now, all Blogspot offers automatic spam control.  We’re not sure about how WordPress and other blog templates work… but all in all, it will be a really big help to many of us if you can “disable to help the disabled”.
Many of us would love to comment more often, but are either slowed down, hindered or stopped by these added controls.
So… please take a look at the settings on your blog, update them if you are comfortable doing so … it will help!  Thanks!
The Zoolatry Girls
Maggy and Zoey and Ann

NJ officials want to end state TNR programs and make it legal to hunt feral cats.

I read the story this morning in my local paper.

There is more information on my blog, along with contact information for the NJ Fish & Game Council. 
~Jen – Tuck’s Human

A Furry Happy Gotcha Day to Zoe!

On Monday, August 17, 2009 our furiends on Forever Foster had a ONE year blogoversary! Remember when dey was noo and started to blog bouts Evie? ~Molly,Shadow and Trooder ( fanks fur reminding us, they’s on The Offishul Calendar from now on. ~KC )

BHU

Send some purrs to Nitro S. Pierce, hims haf a yoorinary infekshun an had to spend tha night at tha vets.

here is anufur fing in Massatoosetts – dey iz tryin ta stops devocalizin dogs n kittiez, cuz dis furry bads. u kins reeds bout dat here. don’t knoh ifns uther states needs ta pass a bill like dis.  -Katie Too

Become a Calendar Cat!!!
The CB is looking for “themed nude pictures” of you!
Go here for more details!
~The Cat Realm

URGENT!!!! Daisy gotsta go to vets asap! dem babiez gone and now hurz impacted. Warm packs not helpin.  At least 60.00 (office visit and  steroiod shot) mite need antibiotikz. Mom gotz a PayPal debit card…but only 19.00 in dehr. who helps kin haves da cat angel or da bone china kittens or sumpin dat we hafs fur our furry bay blog. sum fings not ups yet. Fanks!! ~Katie Kitty Too

Gandalf & Grayson’s Write It On Tuesday
Tabby Tuesday for all Attack Tabbies (or any sorts of tabbies)
Tuxie Toosday for all Tuxedo Cats at the Tuxedo Gang Hideout
Tummy Tuesday for showing off all those kitty tummies at Lisa Violet’s Diary
Toesies Tummy for showing those claws…errrr… toes and Cats on Tuesday

Subject: Woofie Alert! Please tell every dog or cat person you know.  
Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased  Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog, Calypso, decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn’t acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk . Half way through the walk; she had a seizure and died instantly.  The mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company’s website, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats. Read Snopes.com’s post here. 

Cocoa Mulch  is manufactured by Hershey’s, and they claim that ‘It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won’t eat it.’  Cocoa Mulch, sold by Home Depot, Foreman’s Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores contains a lethal ingredient called ‘Theobromine’. It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker’s chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine. ~Parker