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Pet Pic of the Day: Cheechoo's Got the Right Idea

PetSugar — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:25:57 -0800

It's only a few more hours until my own belly is full with turkey and stuffing leftovers, and I'm doing the same thing Cheechoo is doing here - taking a nice, long catnap.

Congrats to Cheechoo and GirlInPink for being chosen as our Pet Pic of the Day! Don't forget to submit your favorite photos to our Pet Pics group - you may just see your furry pals on the pages of PetSugar!

How Many Colors Are Featured on Your Pet's Fur?

PetSugar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:00:05 -0800

Some animals are solid, bunches boast tabby twos, while others (like this Bernese Mountain Dog) have a triumvirate of colors on their coat . . . which is yours?

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The Scoop: Giuliana Rancic Gets the Millionth Cat!

PetSugar — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:40:54 -0700

No, no Giuliana doesn't have 1 million cats . . . she received the millionth kitty adopted out as part of Morris’s Million Cat Rescue Campaign. I remember that orange tabby from 9Lives commercials when I was a kid, and now the "spokescat" is on a three-year mission to have 1 million shelter cats find happy homes (with the company making donations to local shelters with each food purchase, too).

Jason Kennedy, a fellow E! news host, worked with Morris and his team to convince Giuliana Rancic she was attending a store opening when instead he was going to present her with this grey-and-white kitten outside of the West LA Animal Care Center. It's the first "baby" of any kind to join her family with husband, Bill Rancic. Not only is the cat super adoro, I love seeing celebrities model good choices like shelter adoptions!

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Baby Red Panda Dies, Mama Cat's Kittens Survive

PetSugar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:00:34 -0700

Sadly the Red Panda we saw in that adorable video passed away yesterday. If you don't recall, the abandoned baby was taking up with surrogate mommy – a tabby – after being rejected but her own mother.

It was the first time that a red panda was suckled by a cat within the European breeding program for endangered species, and the lil one was raised along with four kittens born around the same time. Turns out the cub suffocated when her windpipe was filled with milk, but was otherwise in good health. So sad, but kudos to the feline for helping out while she could.

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The Scoop: Generous Cat Adopts Abandoned Red Panda Babe!

PetSugar — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:00:35 -0700

Holy moly, I don't think I can handle any more helpful kitties – my heart is melting with the latest tale. Although it's hard to tell what's going on in these pictures, it's actually a Red Panda (BTW, my favorite wild animal in the world) being nursed by a Dutch tabby cat! The baby's mother, Gladys, rejected her two cubs just after they were born on June 30 . . . leaving zookeepers with a wee problem on their hands.

Even though the two babies started out in an incubator (sadly, one was too weak and died last Thursday), one of the zookeepers at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo had a pet that had just given birth herself . . . and this mama cat was willing to take on one more babe, the Red Panda currently about the same size as her four kittens. I can't imagine what sweet coupling we'll see next!

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The Scoop: High-Flying Kitty

PetSugar — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:45:20 -0800

When ten-month-old tabby, Gracie Mae, went missing from her home in Ft. Lauderdale, her owner began looking everywhere, including having her father remove parts of the bathroom tiles and cabinet to look into a small crawl space. Kelly Levy's husband, Seth, had just left on a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Dallas-Fort Worth and she learned that he also lost something – his black suitcase.

Flash forward to the next morning – right before Kelly was about to put up missing pet signs around the neighborhood, she received a shocking phone call. A man in Ft. Worth had accidentally picked up her husband's suitcase at baggage claim, opened it up, and out popped Gracie Mae. The good samaritan offered to hang onto the cat until her husband could get there and even bought a pet taxi for the kitty's flight home! With all the problems I've heard about pets traveling in checked baggage/ cargo in clearly marked kennels, this miracle cat (who still had her spaying stitches no less) survives being packed into a suitcase, going through x-ray, flying four hours to Texas, and being loaded and unloaded off a commercial airline as any other piece of baggage. Initial reactions make me think of not only how lucky this kitty is but also how shocking it is that no one discovered this shy cat during any of the handling processes. But, after the sad stories of Scooter, I'm so glad this mystery has a happy ending!

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