Hug Your Cat Day Today, June 4th Today is Hug Your Cat Day... what a purr-fect day to show your feline babies some extra love! Not that those of us who live with and love our cats ever really need an excuse to show our fur babies love.
Have you heard that hugging and cuddling a cat is good for your health? It helps alleviate negative moods, reduces stress levels, and engenders calm. I know that's true for me when I hug my cat. And I don't wait till Hug Your Cat Day to hug my cat... Mr. Marlow gets hugs every day all year long.
Hug Your Cat Day: June 4th Today is Hug Your Cat Day... a great excuse to show your feline babies some extra love! Did you know that hugging and cuddling a cat is good for your health by helping to alleviate negative moods, reducing stress levels, and engendering calm?
If you don't have a cat to hug today why not borrow one from a friend? No friend from whom to borrow a cat, why not adopt one at your local shelter? Lots of beautiful kittens and cats looking for their forever homes. Don't forget that hugging a cat is good for your health today (28 comments)
Once again, it's PetSmart Charities' National Pet Adoption Weekend starting today and continuing through Saturday, and Sunday (February 17-19) in Charlotte, North Carolina and every where else around the country and Canada, for that matter. If you've been thinking about adopting a cat or a dog (or maybe one of or more of each), this is the weekend to do it. Animal welfare organizations will be on site at many PetSmart stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. They'll make it easy for you to find your purrfect fur-ever companion(s). That's how I found two of my dogs--through these PetSmart Charities adoption (23 comments)
Are you wondering why there is a Black Cat Appreciation Day in the first place? Black Cat Appreciation Day was started to show people that a black cat could be the purrfect cat for them, and to help raise awareness about black cats in general. Superstitions about black cats being bad luck keep more black cats in shelters, where they are more than three times less likely to find "fur-ever" homes?
And it's a very sad, but true fact that over-capacity animal shelters euthanize black cats first because it is so much harder for them to find permanent home. One study suggested that even when people don’t (38 comments)