Walk Through The Web Wednesday – 2/14

Happy Valentine’s Day Furiends!

We hope your humans are showing you love and that you have offered extra head bonks and purrs to your staff…errrr…humans. Oliver and Lily and I decide to create our own valentines for you and this week our theme is love and Valentine’s Day celebrations.

We hope your day is filled with love!`

Cat crashes wedding

Cara and Matt Hamdan were in the middle of exchanging vows when a loud purring was heard by the entire wedding party and it seemed to be coming from a bush.

The bride was focused on the vows her husband had written when people at the wedding  began laughing. When she turned around the source of the laughter was seen, a loud purring Tabby.

The groom chose to finish his vows before he reacted to the interruption.

After the wedding the groom’s mother kept in touch with the venue to find out if the cat was still there and how it was doing. The venue employees as well as the bride and groom were cat lovers and so a plan was created to catch the cat. It took two weeks but they were finally successful. The cat was taken to the local shelter were the newlyweds arrived to adopt it.

The new feline now lives with another cat named Gatsby. The kitty is loving and affectionate and enjoying her new life with her feline sibling and her humans.

‘It’s the ultimate revenge

The Humboldt & District SPCA in Saskatchewan, Canada animal shelter’s latest fund raiser for spaying and neutering cats is a special event for Valentine’s Day.

For every $50 donation the non-profit will name a cat after the ex-partner of the person’s choosing  will spay or neuter the cat.  

Although this is a bit of a cynical take on Valentine’s day, it appealed to a lot of folks as the shelter’s Facebook post announcing the event received 600 likes in the first 24 hours.

Evidently this spay/neuter Valentine’s day program is being offered in numerous shelters in the
U.S. and Canada and they seem to be successful  indicating that not everyone has warm and fuzzy feelings about Valentine’s Day.

Love stinks! Ohio animal charity will dedicate a shelter cat’s litter box to your ex

And if you are not sentimental about Valentine’s Day but not excited about the spay/neuter fundraiser, another shelter is running a program called “You deserve better!” The Animal Charity of Ohio. wrote on their social media page, “Treat yourself this Valentine’s Day by having us write your ex’s name on a litter box and we’ll let our rescue cats do what they do best!”

You can make a donation here.

Dorchester’s curious cat wins over hearts of Dorset town

It’s easy to fall in love with a feline but this feline has captured the hearts of an entire town.

Susie the cat moved from Upwey to Dorchester, Englad with her humans Linda and Michael Crow. She settled into her new home quickly and has been spotted by hundreds of people across the town, and has achieved such fame that she’s  featured in postcards promoting Dorchester.

Evidently everyone in Dorchester is Susie’s valentine.

Cats Get Into Valentine’s Day Spirit With ‘Adorable’ Heart-Shaped Cuddle

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with this photo of two cats in a heart-shaped snuggle?

These 2-month old siblings are named Psilo and Meskie live their best life with their human in Bengaluru, India and they spend the day playing together and then groom each other every night before they go to sleep.

Walking on Thursday

Hello Furiends,
The life of blogging felines sometimes gets complicated and we find ourselves running a day behind on our schedule. We cannot fault our Purrsonal Assistant as we have been working her hard to finish our first mystery novel and she was busy with the launch yesterday of Chicken Soup For the Soul, Lessons Learned from My Cat in which she has a story on page 175 called, Miss P. and the Turkey. Yep yet another story about Angel Miss P! This is the second time The Human has been published in a Chicken Soup book!

Here’s a press release for the book:

101 Lessons Learned from Our Cats

A New Chicken Soup for the Soul Collection Explores that Magical Human–Animal Bond Royalties from Book Sales to Benefit American Humane

COS COB, Conn. – We learn so much from our feline friends, and along the way they keep us company, provide unconditional love, and share in the ups and downs of our lives. What do we learn from them? Everything. Our cats make us better people. If we rescued them, they rescue us back. If we’re sad, they comfort us. If we need to have more fun, they show us how. They are our therapists, our role models, and our best friends.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Cat (February 14, 2023, 978-1-611590999, $16.95) will have cat fans laughing, tearing up, and nodding their heads in recognition as they dive into these 101 touching, inspiring, and sometimes mindboggling stories about all the ways in which cats enrich our lives, become part of our families, and make us better people.

“It’s remarkable how much cats add to their human family members’ lives,” says Amy Newmark, publisher and editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul. “Our writers report on how their cats helped them improve their relationships, acted as natural therapists, and showed them how to overcome their own challenges. They learned how to be better people through the examples of their cats’ loyalty, intuition, resilience, and kindness.”

Chicken Soup for the Soul is donating royalties from the book to American Humane, along with the royalties from its other new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Dog. This is the seventh pair of books about cats and dogs that Chicken Soup for the Soul has published with royalties earmarked for American Humane. This effort is part of the company’s widespread support for animal shelters and pet adoption, including the donation of Chicken Soup for the Soul pet food and books to shelters across the country.

In keeping with Chicken Soup for the Soul’s support for pet adoption and shelters, the 101 stories chosen for the book from thousands of submissions are not only inspirational and fun, but also feature rescued cats, including black cats and senior cats, the categories of cats that are often left behind at shelters. It’s part of Chicken Soup for the Soul’s mission to make people think “shelter first” when they’re considering adding a new pet to their families.

101 inspiring stories about amazing cats—and support for a great cause. It’s the perfect recipe for a warm, winter dose of chicken soup.

Chicken soup for the soul

And now, since we’re a little behind, we thought we’d share our Valentine’s Day images from yesterday. Please come back and visit us tomorrow to enjoy our news items about the wild and wacky world of felines.