Please Help Us Win A Readers’ Choice Award
We’re going to take a break from our usual advice-dispensing ways today because we want to ask for your help. About.com is currently accepting nominations for its Readers’ Choice Awards, and we’d really, really like to get one. Through Feb. 15, About.com is seeking nominations for hundreds of award categories, and we want to be a finalist for the Best Website About Cats. The more nominations we get, the better our chances of being selected by About.com’s cat experts to be one of the five finalists. April 2012 will mark the ninth anniversary of Paws and Effect. That’s right, nine years of answering letters from readers every single week. We’re delighted that we’re starting to…
More Than Meets The Camera: An Interview with Jackson Galaxy
We’re so very excited! Yesterday we got to interview the awesome Jackson Galaxy, star of the Animal Planet series My Cat From Hell, whose second season premieres Saturday, January 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Ooh, that’s four days from now! Our tails are twitching with anticipation! But there’s a lot more to Jackson than his TV show. He’s a musician, author, entrepreneur, and a passionate advocate for stray and feral cats. Check out our conversation with America’s favorite cat counselor. The Paws and Effect Gang: How did you get into working with cats? Jackson Galaxy: It was kind of accidental. I started working at the shelter because I was working as a musician…
The Paws and Effect Holiday Gift Guide
Over the last year, we’ve found so many wonderful goodies for cats and their people that we honestly can’t remember them all. But today we’re going to share some of them with you, in the hope that you’ll consider doing some of your holiday shopping with these wonderful craftspeople, authors published by small houses (or even self-published), and independent merchants. So, without further ado, let’s get on with it! Okay, maybe just a little more ado: You can click on the photos to enlarge them, and prices listed are in US dollars. Gifts for Cats The Beautiful Basics Cat Bucket, hand-made by designer Barb Joyce exclusively for Moderncat Studio, is the perfect napping spot….
We’re Finalists for a Pettie Award!
The votes have been tabulated, and the results are in. Paws and Effect is a finalist in the Best Designed Blog category of the 2011 Pettie Awards! We’ve got some stiff competition, we’re not gonna lie … so we need your help. Please vote for us and tell all your friends to do the same. Winners in each of the eight categories will have the chance to make a $1,000 donation to the animal rescue group of their choice — and if we win, ours will go to PurrEver Ranch Sanctuary, a tiny rescue for “senior kittizens and wayward pussycats” located in Tennessee. PurrEver has been doing great work for years, providing a loving and…
Please Help Us Win A Pettie Award!
The Pettie Awards, which honor the best of the best in the pet blogging world, is now accepting nominations! The great thing is that each Pettie Award winner gets bragging rights and a $500 donation to their favorite rescue. When we win, we plan to give our award(s) money to PurrEver Ranch Sanctuary because we love them! So, if you love Paws and Effect and you think it would be great to have a part in awarding a donation to a worthy animal rescue group, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to vote for us in one (or more) of the following categories: Best Cat Blog: This is for a blogger who writes mainly…
Help Us Do Mama a Favor
Mama applied to be the first ever Purina Cat Chow Correspondent. Even though we know Mama would be away a lot if they hire her, we think it would be totally wonderful for her to have this opportunity after working so hard to help us make Paws and Effect the success it is. A whole bunch of people have left wonderful comments on this video over at YouTube, and we hope that you will join them in singing Mama’s praises. Here’s the video. Please watch it, and we’d love it if you’d click on over and leave a comment telling the Purina folks why they should hire her!
Hallelujah! We’re back!
Those of you who came looking for Paws and Effect some time within the last 24 hours probably noticed that we’d disappeared. What happened was a technical meltdown of the sort that no webmaster ever wants to deal with. But fortunately our Mama is very smart and she kept our site backed up. While she was in the process of resurrecting the site, Mama decided to do something she’d been planning to do for a long time: change hosting providers. So here we are, back online at our fresh, new hosting account. You’ll probably notice that the site is running a lot faster now, and we hope that you’ll continue to enjoy Paws and Effect…
