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Janelle and Tracie Make Each Other’s Day!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I get a whole bunch of lovely emails — I am really blessed to have listeners who aren’t just devoted to their pets but they are so appreciative in the ways I try to improve lives for dogs and cats and the people who live with them. But this letter took the cake. It’s from Janelle, from an Army base in Germany, to which she has flown her beloved cat Mr. Kitty in addition to three other moves! Talk about the family that stays together…they give “family unity” and devotion a whole new meaning.

Hi, Tracie!

Just want to say thanks so much for writing both of your books and for raising the awareness of pet owners EVERYWHERE! I have both of your books and I am just grateful for them! I also download your podcasts of Dog Talk®! WHAT A GREAT SHOW!!!

I have a nine-year-old DSH male cat named Mr. Kitty. He was a stray that wandered into our base housing unit in Fairfield, California in 2001, when my husband was active duty in the Air Force. We eventually took him in as our own after an emergency trip to the vet clinic one evening. We had him examined and fixed and kept him inside after that. We also decided that he would go with us wherever we were stationed if we had the money and the means to do so.

Seven years later, Mr. Kitty has been exclusively on wet food for a year now, thanks to you and Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins! He has also endured four overseas flights; moves, new houses, and a three-month stay at a cattery in England to finish out his quarantine sentence! We’ve lived in England, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and we currently live in Germany. In 2002, I started to notice this odd behavior in Kitty: he would scratch, chew and bite himself as if he had fleas. He has been checked for fleas, flea dirt with none to be found. He used to have topical flea treatments applied to him when we first got him. He has had his skin scraped three times to look for evidence of mites or fleas or dirt. None found. Food allergies were brought up for the FIRST time by a vet when we were living in Hawaii in 2006. But the way she described the food trials and testing, I was scared to death to put my cat through that!

So I researched food/allergies on my own. I found Dr. Hodgkins book at the library and read it. It shocked the heck out of me and I thought for sure it was the dry food making my cat crazy with these OCD-like behaviors. By now, Kitty’s licking, scratching, biting were leaving patches of fur GONE on his belly, around his anus and on sections of his legs. He was also behaving a bit aggressively at times: biting me and waking me up throughout the night, sometimes with bites. I also noticed that while he would be sitting, he would jump up like something was biting him and he’d start to lick or chew that spot. After kicking dry food for six months and no huge change in his behavior, I took him to the vet on base and she diagnosed him with either OCD/stress from all of his moves or food allergies. She said it would be easier to start with the OCD claim and rule that out first. Ten milligrams of Prozac a day was prescribed. That was in May. Almost six months later and while Mr. Kitty is less aggressive, his licking, scratching, chewing is still going on. Before I head back to the vet to inquire about food allergies/other allergies and testing and….? I would like to hear what you think of this situation.

Is this a crazy diagnosis? I don’t really like my cat being on Prozac, unless it is going to really help him. I feel like my cats quality of life is suffering and I don’t know what to do next. What do you know about food trials/food allergies? Should I possibly feed my cat a better diet? He eats canned, grain-free Wellness and canned Friskies and Fancy Feast off of your list. I also give him fresh chicken sometimes mixed into his food. Would Platinum Performance or another supplement help? (Although I think I am going to order this and start him on it anyway. It sounds AWESOME.)

I hope you get this and offer any advice you may have. I also hope I didn’t go overboard and ramble on too much. Thanks in advance!

P.s. Any advice on how to suggest and/or convince family and friends to make the switch to better nutrition for our feline and canine friends? It’s so hard! I try to be cool and casual and get all excited about your book and information. I think in the end I will just have to buy everyone your book for Christmas, as they are just NOT believing me!!

Janelle-

Your letter made my day!

What a wonderful cat person you are and how grateful I am for your good decision to get him off “kitty crack” and thanks also for your kind words.

I hope I make YOUR day by telling you that I am choosing Mr. Kitty as my Cat Chat® cat of the Month for December! Go on my website and see where I will be posting his photo and a little bio about him from you (I can take it from this lovely email of yours)

Also, in addition to the CAT CHAT® baseball cap I’ll be sending you I want to send you autographed bookplates for each of your Bibles! To what address should they go? (I hope I can use a military address so they get it there quickly without hassle)

Platinum is a must — but so is Omega-3 oil. I’ll be sending you a 3-month supply from Nordic Naturals, one of my website sponsors (read all about them on my website) but you should get him on the oil ASAP.

I am going to pass on your email to both Dr. Hodgkins and Dear Sally (read about her on the CAT CHAT® part of my site) for some thoughts which I will pass along to you) about Mr. Kitty’s baffling situation.

Be well and thanks again for your kind words
Tracie

The Cat Bible by Tracie Hotchner

Response from Janelle:

Ohmygoodness! I can’t believe you emailed me back! I feel like I won the lottery!

Wow! So glad I finally broke down and emailed you with our issue. I admire you and your work immensely and I am so appreciative of your response.

WOW! BASEBALL CAP?! Autographed BOOKPLATES! And Nordic Naturals!! HolyCOW! I’m so excited!

Even better, you are forwarding my email on to “the experts” to find out their take on this situation. Thank you, Tracie. Mr. Kitty thanks you, too. I hope we find a solution to this problem. Will order the Platinum Performance today! I did go to the Nordic Naturals website, but was confused on which one to choose. Your supplies/samples you send will help me out! Trust me, I’ve been all over your website: read and reread just about every part. Thanks for always keeping up the old links from past Chats as well as adding to them. WHAT A GREAT RESOURCE your website is!

I can’t wait to tell my mom and my brother (both cat and dog lovers and owners.) They are going to FREAK OUT!

Thanks again! I will email you a photo of Mr. Kitty today as well. I feel honored to be on your website. WOW!

And yes. You TOTALLY made my day! Thanks again.
Janelle

Enthusiasm, energy and appreciation coming full circle – it doesn’t get any better than this.

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Cats Thrive on Nordic Naturals Omega-3 Fish Oil

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I got this question from a regular listener:

Do you know of any spices or oils harmful to cats?  I have a Maine Coon cat and he goes crazy when I use the spice cloves and oil, which seems to drive him crazy like catnip. Also do you know if olive, coconut or almond oil in his food or rub on his coat, which seems to be dry and dull. Thank you.

I checked with Dear Sally for some specifics and then forgot that I hadn’t sent it on to you. Forgive me!Sally didn’t know about powdered spices (although the herb valerian is attractive to cats) but we both know that essential oils are no-nos, while hydrosols (by-products of essential oils) are acceptable. The first article mentions clove oil as not recommended. Some good links follow:

http://www.littlebigcat.com/
http://www.holisticat.com/aromatherapy.html
http://www.thelavendercat.com/3201/index.html

Re: the coat issue – what are you feeding him? If it’s dry food, please go right away to my website and read blogs & Q&A’s and get rid of that Kitty Crack right away. As soon as you switch him to wet food you need to add Omega 3 fish oil for his skin and coat and he should be much better in a matter of a week. Cats need the Omega 3 oil from an ANIMAL source – the best brand with purest oil is Nordic Naturals – read about them on my website. Putting oil ON the cat is useless and just makes a mess. The value of coconut oil is not clear  – the fish oil is the only way for the cat’s body to absorb it.

Tracie

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Vet Feeding Dry Food Thinks Tuxedo Cats Must Be “Genetically Predisposed” To Obesity

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I honestly thought I’d heard it all – until I got this nice email. But it knocked my wig off to read that the vet feeding super-pricey Purina  to his own black and white cat, commented to this patient (with an overweight tuxedo cat which he put on the same food) that “genetics” must be making the cats fat. The stupidity of this comment isn’t just the lack of understanding that cats are obligate carnivores who have no way of metabolizing carbohydrates and therefore become fat – no, it is even more ignorant to think that a cat’s color (or even their breed!) would in any way affect the way they metabolize food. All cats have the same digestive system – whether lion, cougar or pussycat – and fried corn, pork fat and by-products (common vet-diet food ingredients) have no place in a cat’s body.

Dear Tracie – I first heard of you through Pet Food Direct. I was at the agency that handles their radio advertising and when they specifically asked to be on your show, I checked out your web site. This was a few months ago… and I noticed you had the biggest kitty loser contest. I have a cat, Magnum – a 3 year old tuxedo – who is overweight. My guess is he’s about 18 lbs.

I honestly don’t think I over-feed him though. I used to be very on top of measuring his food, I feed him light adult food, and he’s pretty active…but he has remained overweight. I spoke to my vet about this and he also has a tuxedo cat who is overweight. He said he thinks there must be some genetic disposition causing it because he also doesn’t over-feed his cat. He suggested that I feed Magnum Purina OM (Overweight Management).  I was feeding Magnum Science Diet Adult Light, then switched to Purina OM, and now am back to Science Diet (just because I haven’t had a chance to go back to the vet to buy the Purina).

I also have an underweight cat, Cooper, a 7 year old tabby (he looks like a small Mane Coon).  He has always been underweight, but the vet said he’s perfectly healthy. We feed Cooper dry kitten food & as much wet food as he will eat but he still doesn’t put on weight. Part of Magnum’s problem is he finds Cooper’s dry kitten food and eats it. It’s very difficult figuring out how to make one cat lose weight and the other gain weight. Cooper is also very stressed out by Magnum. Magnum always tries to play with him, but Cooper truly doesn’t want anything to do with him. I’m worried the stress is affecting his health (I’m not sure he’s eating as much as he would if he wasn’t stressed). Cooper is the family cat & I will be moving out with Magnum in May, so I’m hoping Cooper will be able to just deal with him until we move (he’s been putting up with him for a year now).  (Sorry for the tangent….).

I just don’t know what to do to help Magnum lose weight. I noticed that you encourage an all wet food diet. To be honest, I don’t feed Magnum much wet food, so I’m a bit wary of switching him off of dry food completely. Can you please help me with this?  Any advice you can give me would be great! Thank you for your time!

I could see this nice lady was unaware that she had been paying top price for bottom drawer foods had boxed her cat into this corner. I told her to get THE CAT BIBLE ASAP and read through my whole web site, too. I said it would take her all of 5 minutes to see why dry food is the entire problem. Also, I said that her vet is in desperate need of some education – it is shocking to hear a comment about “tuxedo cats being genetically pre-disposed to obesity” when he had decided for both himself and the patient to feed the very CAUSE of obesity, diabetes, and many other ailments in cats today – “kitty crack,” (which is any and all dry food). I don’t know which of those vet-sold formulations I like less,  it’s really a toss-up. They are all highly processed carbohydrates blowing cats up like balloons.

I added that in case she remained unsure after reading everything I’ve put out there, she should know the result of the Biggest Kitty loser contest – hundreds of pounds lost across the country simply by exchanging kitty crack for ANY wet food.

And the poor kitten!! I told her to please protect his life NOW by getting him off the kitty crack and onto proper food. All those behavior issues will disappear once they’re both getting two good meals a day. I explained that I am always here with any further support she needs AFTER making “the switch” – and that to be frank, I don’t just encourage it of listeners, I practically demand it! And boy are they glad that I do – they tell me so every week!

Tracie

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Helpful Listener: We Cannot Prescribe for Our Precious Pets

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I got this nice email in response to a caller I’d had on the air – but for safety’s sake I passed it along to the wonderful vet of CAT CHAT®, Elizabeth Hodgkins. As always she came right back with words of wisdom – which serve as a warning to all of us that we cannot simply guess at what might help our precious pets.

I was listening to your show on Sirius, and a gentleman called in who was having problems with his pet having some sort of allergy. He tried to give it Benadryl, but due to the bitterness his pet wouldn’t take it even in food. I just wanted to suggest that you might want to try out (or have someone try out) using one of the dissolvable film products that have diphenhydramine (the active ingredient in Benadryl) in them. I know that Benadryl has one, and there is also a Theraflu and a Triaminic one. I have tried the Theraflu one, and the bitter taste is pretty well masked in that product. They dissolve really fast, so it might be easier to give one of those.

I really enjoy your show!
Molly

I wrote Molly back as follows and included Dr. H’s comments:

I really appreciate your sharing that thought but I ran it by the official vet of CAT CHAT® – and her response is a heads-up to all of us that we cannot self-diagnose or prescribe for our pets. But I’m so glad you wrote in and I’m delighted to know you’re out there listening!

The problem with these other products is that they have other ingredients, like acetaminophen, which can be toxic, even fatal for cats. Did he use a pill form of Benadryl? At best this is not a solution just a temporary “band aid.”

The problem is likely at least partly the food, no matter what the tests showed. Allergy tests in cats are a waste, not at all proven reliable. He should switch to a hypoallergenic diet like the canned rabbit and pea, duck and pea, venison and pea types etc. A raw diet, especially rabbit is also good for such cats. He may want to seek a second opinion from a dermatologist….in human med, when a physician has run out of ideas with no solution to a problem, the case is referred. In vet med, there is no legal liability for just throwing up one’s hands and saying “too bad, I have no idea” as there is in human medicine, but owners can take the initiative to keep looking until someone figures it out. Best advice is for him to find a specialist, who will likely put the cat on a hypoallergenic diet (remind him NO dry food!) and perhaps drugs for the short term.

Elizabeth Hodgkins DVM, Esq.

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Food Killing Cats? Or are 48 Cats plus Kittens too Many Cats?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

When Dr. Marty Goldstein was on CAT CHAT with me recently, a lady called in to say that some of her cats had died from canned food. Weeks passed and I finally received an email – which follows, as does my reply to her. Any thoughts or comments would be welcome!

Tracie,

First I want to thank you for taking my phone call on your show. I also want to explain why it has taken me so long to write you. This is the first email I have ever done, and this the 3rd time (hopefully that last) I have done this email. I somehow deleted my first two. I need help to find out where I can get some canned cat food tested. I will try to explain what happened, but first I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself and my life. I live in the country on 10 acres and my whole life is my animals. I have no family here or friends. I spend all my time every day taking care of my cats and dogs. I have four dogs, 3 Siberian Husky’s and 1 Black Lab. I had 48 cats (10 of my cats died) and 4 kittens which I hand-raised because their mother died, she was a wild outside cat. All of my cats are inside cats they never go outside and they are all cats that I have rescued and their babies.

I will tell you briefly tell you what happened. The 1st of my cats died on Saturday, June 21, 2008, 2 more of my cats died on Sunday. June 22, 2008, the 4th cat died on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 and on that Tuesday another of my cats got sick, I was able to get her to the vet and I thought she was going to be okay but she died on Friday, June 27, 2008. Then on Monday, June 30, 2008 I had 5 more of my cats die. This is so hard for me to even talk about, it is taking everything I have in me to write this. I can give you all the details but I just cannot do that now. I just want to try to get this finished and sent to you. Even though I had 3 of the cats posted the vets were not able to find out why my babies died. On that Monday, June 30th, I decided that it had to be the food I was feeding my cats that was killing them. I did not feed them any of the food I had and first thing Tuesday morning I bought them different dry and can food. I do not think that the problem was with the dry food, because I was feeding them six different kinds and brands of dry food. I was feeding them only one kind of canned cat food, which was 9-Lives canned cat food. I have several cats that will not eat any canned cat food, and several that eat very little canned cat food.

Since Monday, June 30, 2008 no more of my cats have died, and I am so thankful for that, because I really do not think I could take it if I lost anymore of my babies. I contacted Del Monte Foods, they make 9-Lives canned cat food, they wanted me to send them one can of each of the kinds of 9-Lives that I had fed them, which was 11 different cans. I finally heard back from Del Monte, and I can give you all the details of what happened, but briefly what Del Monte said that they “examined the food and found it to be normal.” After a lot of questions on my part I found from Del Monte that all they did was “odor and appearance” test, so what they did was open each can, smell it and look at it, and they said the cans of food smelled and looked okay. I asked them what tests they had done for anything toxic in the food and they said that they could not test for anything unless I could tell them what to test for.

I know that the 9-Lives canned cat food killed my 10 cats and I help to prove it. I know I will never get over my babies that died. I still have nightmares every night and every time one of my cats makes a sound I go running to make sure they are okay. I have been making all the wet food for both my cats and dogs, and as soon as I can figure out how to make dry cat and dry dog food I will start making all their food. If there is anything you can do to help me get the 9-Lives canned cat food tested, I still have cans of each kind. I hope that this email gets to you. I will be waiting to hear from you, I know you are very busy so I hope to hear from you when ever you can.

Thank You,
Barbara in Oklahoma

Thanks for writing Barbara – and I’m so sorry for your loss.

Although i know you suspect the food, given how many cats you have, it would have killed or sickened all of them, not just a quarter of them.

Also, if it were the food there would have been other people with cats sick or dying, it could not be limited to just your home.

I have to tell you that 48 cats and 4 kittens is too many cats in one place. There are contagious diseases of so many kinds and there is no way for one person to monitor all the daily habits of the cats (eating, drinking and eliminating) which give signs of illness. I know you mean well and am sure your intention is to give them the love they deserve, but it’s truly an unmanageable number of cats – upper respiratory and other illnesses spread like wildfire and if you are feeding dry food, which I am sure you are, then their health is compromised solely from that. Kidney failure, urinary stones and blockages and diabetes have early warning signs that could easily be missed given the number of pets under your care. I wonder if you would consider reducing the number of cats you have by reaching out to other individuals or private rescues in your area?

I know this isn’t the answer you were hoping for but I have to be honest and hope to help you do the best by your pussycats, who right now are just too numerous for the kind of one-on-one care they deserve.

Let me know how I can help.

Tracie

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Dangers of Routine Cat Vaccinations

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I was recently interviewing a vet on my show CAT CHAT about the dangers of routine vaccinations for cats, and the need instead to do blood tests to see what the cat is already immune to because of earlier vaccinations or exposure. After the show I got this really nice note. I think the warning is important enough for everyone to sit up and take notice.

First and foremost I have to say that I love the show! You have definitely made a positive difference in those cats (and their owners) lives whose diet has been changed to wet food.

I wanted to contact you as one more piece of data against over-vaccination. My beautiful 15 year old Maine Coone (Baby) passed away three weeks ago after a long battle with a squamous cell carcinoma on his thigh. The veterinary hospital where he was treated noted that it was odd that the tumor was located in the vaccination area, but no final conclusions were drawn.

This week we discovered a small bump in the same location on my 8 year old Maine Coone mix. The early discovery may have saved her life, or at least bought us more precious time together. (The surgery was postponed due to the storm, but we plan to have it removed as soon as possible.)

I always thought I was doing the right thing when I made the decision to vaccinate my babies. As a more informed pet parent I will question whether vaccines are required in the future.

Thank you!

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Trouble Trimming Cat’s Claws

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I think this lady has great instincts and a generous attitude to her cat – so I wanted to share it with you and tell you that a cat will naturally shed her own nails if you give her a great scratching post to do it on.

My cat, Crosley, is a very spirited boy who doesn’t like having his claws trimmed. He became very difficult and the vet gave us tranquilizers for the next time he had to be clipped, which was this past Saturday. Well, I had never tranquilized an animal before and I never, ever want to do it again. He was very difficult to deal with even with the tranquilizer and he hissed and growled and didn’t look like himself at all. It just broke my heart.

My question is: is it necessary to clip these claws at all. I don’t mind if he scratches my rugs or furniture. He uses his scratching post. He gets me sometimes with his claws, but never intentionally. Is it absolutely necessary to do this? And, if he must be tranquilized, is it safe to do this regularly? Should I try a groomer or another person. This cat gets very stressed.

I’d appreciate any advice. I don’t want to harm my cat.

Thanks,
Donna H. from Edison, NJ

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Cat With “Mangina” Given Kitty Crack by Vet

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Here’s a worrisome letter I got from Michelle in Goodrich, Michigan:

Dear Tracie,

You are convincing me on CAT CHAT to look at my cat’s dietary needs and I understand the importance of not feeding my cats dry food. I have a question concerning wet food and a cat that has had a perineal urethrostomy (I like to say that my cat has a “mangina”). Let me back up- I have two male cats that are 4 years old- a black cat named Friday and an orange tabby named Jake. Both were rescued from the Humane Society. In 2006, the month of March of traumatically spent saving Jake’s life. Long story short- he was brought back from the brink of death and had a perineal urethrostomy. He has been symptom free since. My vet also put both my cats on a urinary food by Purina that you can only get at the vet. I have always questioned this to myself, because it is again a dry food but I just did what my vet said. Maybe I missed it, but is there a dietary solution for my cat?

So I wrote her: Thanks for writing in – because you are about to saved your kitty’s life for the second time! I am assuming that poor Jake’s life-threatening obstruction was caused by dry food – please see the website and my book for more on this relationship between dry cat food and stones, crystals and urinary obstructions. Your instincts are GREAT – that food is precisely the wrong one for any cat, especially one who already has urinary tract issues since it is commonly the main cause of these problems. NO MORE KITTY CRACK! Wet food only! I can’t wait to hear what a great change it makes in both your sweet kitties.

Tracie

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No Kennel for Cats, Please!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Dear Tracie,

I am one of your listeners. I catch your repeat shows mostly on the weekends. I switched my two female 7 year old cats to canned food only a few months ago after listening to a few of your shows. I got my girls from an animal shelter when they were little kittens.

I need to ask you a question, please. My babies are in-door cats only. They have not had vaccinations for a few years now. I have believed for about 5 years now that they did not need them.

My problem is my husband & I are planning a vacation & want to board them at a kennel. But kennel will not take them without proper tags & vaccinations. How does someone get around this problem?

I want to say Thank You now for taking my email. Could you email me back as I might not catch every show.  Thanks again so much.

Judy (and Baby Kakes & Spice Girl) In Conroe, Texas

I’m glad I got this question so that anybody traveling knows that they need to get a pet sitter. The cat Bible explains how and why. And I hope that everybody knows that vaccinations are a NO NO!

Tracie

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Cat “Tree” Recommendation

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I got this really really nice letter – and the timing was just right for an answer:

Hi Tracie,

I have a question about the cat tree that is on the back cover of The Cat Bible. I am looking for a good cat tree for my two kittens (they are brother and sister and about 8 months old).  I noticed while I was reading your book (the best book on any animal I have ever read! Your book really improved the lives of my kits, and I am also switching them onto a raw food diet)  that on the back cover is a picture of you with your cats and they are all on this great cat tree with real bark and an interesting layout.  I looked at all the websites you recommended in your book but couldn’t find a similar one.  Where did you get it? I would love to know how I could get one for Molly and Toby.  Please let me know what my options are. Thanks so much for your time and for writing that book!

Sabrina
P.S.  I have been buying copies of your book and giving them to everyone I know with a cat. It really is an amazing reference!

Gosh Sabrina – I am really touched by your high praise! I am truly delighted to hear that The Cat Bible has been such a big help to you that you’ve been SOOO generous to get one for your friends, too. You probably don’t know that I happily autograph special bookplates to put inside the book, signed to your cats and their friends, along with a few surprises. So if you want to send me that information and your mailing address (or each of theirs) I’ll put those bookplates and other stuff in the mail to you.

As for the cat tree, funnily enough I am right now researching cat trees as the dog and cat expert for a new website called www.TIBESTI.com – the Best of Everything.

I was looking for trees similar to the one on the back cover of my book and the internet is full of them! www.AngelicalCatCo.com, www.SpoilMyKitty.com and maybe the best I’ve found yet is www.PlaytimeWorkshop.com. They all have natural logs and wonderfully shaped nooks and crannies – the only problem is that they are REALLY pricey because they are hand made one at a time. The prices seemed to go from $300 to over $700 – but some had free shipping. So take a look and see what you cannot live without!

As for the kitties and tree in that photo with me – if you read the fine print you’ll see those are the kitties up for adoption in the “cat room” at the Animal Rescue Foundation of the Hamptons (ARF) (where I used to live) because I now have hunting dogs who view cats as fair game. Let me know if you do get a tree and how it works out!

Tracie

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