Coastal Breeze News

FOR THE LOVE OF CATS Naomi & Karina Paape [email protected] Dear Fellow Felines:  Boy, did I get some great news after last month’s epic pantry raid! As I do every day, I was scrolling through our outgoing emails to make sure my staff of 80 was performing up to snuff. One in particular caught my eye and made my tastebuds somersault with joy: “Naomi is getting just a bit on the thin side so we have upped her food.” How many gals are told they need to GAIN weight? Or had their food ration doubled overnight? My weight woes have ... Read More »

By Naomi & Karina Paape – [email protected] Dear Fellow Felines: I am so proud of my stealthy self! I managed to execute a discrete raid on the shelter’s pantry and pigged out on a bunch of food I’m allergic to before our co-founder, Jan Rich, caught me in the act. “She ate herself silly,” is how Jan describes my “crime.”  But then, in the very next breath, she brags about me: “If she wasn’t so smart….” And yes, you guessed it, I am now paying the price: a bunch of the hair on my tail and lower back has fled ... Read More »

By Naomi & Karina Paape - [email protected] Dear Fellow Felines: Wow, was I ever shocked to learn that the number one reason cat owners surrender and euthanize their cats is because they are “going” somewhere other than their litter box. Just as shocking is that experts agree the problem is usually not the cat’s fault. There is either something about the litter box that repels these misunderstood felines, or there is a medical or behavioral problem that compels litter box avoidance. Jan says that during For the Love of Cats’ many adoption events, she and Jim “spend countless hours talking to ... Read More »

By Naomi & Karina Paape [email protected] Dear Fellow Felines: By now we are all suffering from the diet resolutions made by our people earlier this month. I don’t know about you, but I am starving! Compounding my suffering is the fact that my staff instructs all new arrivals to leave no morsel of food within my considerable striking distance. Being the clever girl I am, however, I recently stormed the condo of two gorgeous tortie kittens by leaping over a volunteer’s shoulder and into their feeding station. I was swiftly apprehended. As “obligate carnivores”  we felines require high protein, low ... Read More »

FOR THE LOVE OF CATS Naomi & Karina Paape [email protected] Dear fellow felines: It is imperative that I caution you about an upcoming human tradition that spells bad news for those of us who share “their” world: the dreaded New Year’s resolution. The number one resolution going into 2012 was to lose weight, or so states the website Statistic Brain. Adding to the belt tightening promised by this stat is a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (December 18) admonishing cat (and dog) owners to utilize “interactive feeders” designed to keep us from inhaling our food while simultaneously making us ... Read More »

FOR THE LOVE OF CATS Naomi & Karina Paape [email protected] Dear fellow felines. Welcome back to kitty paradise! Not much has changed since you left last spring. But be advised, there are still too many predators for us to be outdoor kitties. We have bobcats, coyotes, hawks, eagles, panthers, black bears, the occasional python, and at least one lynx. But who can complain? We get the run of the lanai where we can chase geckos, nap in the sun, shed all over our human’s nice, rattan furniture, and drink out of the pool. But too many geckos makes for an upset ... Read More »