New home for Catnip Corner

Due to increased obligations with the business I own with my husband, I have found it very difficult to maintain 3 blogs and do justice to all of them. I've decided to combine Catnip Corner and The Dog Log into one blog as their topics are very similar.

The name and url for the combined blog is The Cat/Dog Log, http://blog.ourdoglog.com. I will continue posting about cat health, rescue and adoption matters as well as the same topics for dogs from there. If I linked to your site from here previously, I am now linking to you from The Cat/Dog Log. Also, if you subscribed to my Catnip Corner RSS feed and marked it as a favorite at Technorati, would you mind redoing them with the new url. At Technorati it still shows "the dog log" until they make the name change.

I appreciate each and every one of my readers, and hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone. Thank you for your patience during my "reconstruction process."

New service helps find lost pets

I just learned about a new one of a kind service called "FindToto.com, called the Amber Alert for lost or stolen pets. This service was inspired by a pet owner after losing their own cat. Their pet's loss made it clear how difficult and time-consuming it was to call all their own neighbors and post flyers. Unfortunately they never found their cat, but saw a real need for a service such as this to help other pet owners.

All you have to do is go to FindToto.com, sign up for the service, and within 1 hour they are alerting your neighbors of the situation. The service is operated 7 days a week. The cost is based on how many people you'd like them to call, and ranges from $59.99 to $500 (for $59.99 they will call 250 neighbors).

I've added a link to them at the top of my blog, in case you ever need this service. Hopefully you never will.

Wordless Wednesday

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We received 2 Awards

We were quite pleased to find that Lilyruth's This and That Cottage has given us the "Toadilly Awesome Award," and Saving Lives One at a Time has given us the "E for Excellent Award." We think you're "toadilly awesome" and "excellent" too.







We'd like to pass these 2 awards on to some bloggers we find to be toadilly awesome and excellent too:

Curious animals
Save a cat
Diamond's lair
Lily's pad

A Memo to the pets

The following was written by Linda Narges, and it really hits home with our pets. Does any of this sound familiar in your house?

"A memo to the pets....

Dear dogs and cats,

The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years--canine or feline atendance is not required.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!

To pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted the following message on our front door:

To all non-pet owners who visit and complain about our pets:

1. They live here. You don't

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (that's why they call it 'fur'niture)

3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.

4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours, and doesn't speak clearly."

(by Linda Narges)