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Black Cat Month
 Black Cat Month is here, along with Halloween Month, and we honor all black cats in October.
I'm happy to present our annual Black Cat Month a compilation of all the special features in October. Thumbs, pictured here is a darling little black polydactyl kitten, who lives with her big black cat brother, Merlin, and their adoptive mom. The gallery is an ongoing project and will be added to through the end of 2012.
Photo Credit: © About.com Member Willow2469
| Review: Natural Balance Platefulls
Natural Balance PlatefullsTM are pouches of grain-free wet cat food consisting of meaty pieces, peas, carrots, and sometimes fruit in gravy. I hadn't bought pouch cat food for ages because the last time I had purchased it, my cats slurped up all the juice, leaving the meaty bits behind - a nutritional negative. However when I saw that my local feed and grain store now supplies pouch food by Natural Balance, at $.99/per package, I thought it might be worth a try as an experiment. It seemed to be a nice change of pace to buy some of the Platefulls pouches as treats. Please read my full review to find out how I rated this cat food.
| World Animal Day: October 4
If you are an animal lover, mark October 4th on your calendar as World Animal Day. World Animal Day has been around for over a century. It was first started in 1931 to bring attention to endangered animals by a convention of ecologists in Florence. October 4th was selected as the annual date as it is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, who loved all the creatures of Earth. World Animal Day is celebrated all over the world in a number of ways, from Blessing of the Animals...read more
| Cat Picture of the Week: Coco Bear
 It is my pleasure to introduce the fifth and last Cat of the Week for September, 2012, Ms. Coco Bear.
Coco Bear is a favorite and an icon among her fellow cats on the About.com Cats Forum. HOSTPat keeps all the members entertained with photos and amusing stories of both Coco and Calypso, her younger calico housemate. HOSTPat has shared her home with Coco Bear since she adopted her at 2 1/2 years from the local Humane Society. Pat says that Coco sleeps more and gets the "crazies" less than she did as a youngster, and an added bonus is that she is more cuddly, not always a main characteristic of tortoiseshell cats. Read more of Coco Bears story, and maybe a tortie girl might be in your own future?
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