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Say Cheese! 9 Ways to Capture Share-worthy Photos of Your Cat
The lifestyle magazine for modern cats and their companions
13 Secrets
FALL· WINTER 2014/15
How to Play With Your Cat
Your Cat Wants To Tell You
(Hint: most people are doing it wrong)
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It's Nala, the Internet's Next "It" Cat!
Plus! Novel Treats to Tempt Your Cat
MAKE IT! Super-cute DIY cat badges + stickers you're going to want to put on everything
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The All-Important Play Sequence Your cat won’t play? Think you’ve tried everything? Maybe you’re doing it wrong!
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Litter Box Blues 10 reasons your cat is having “accidents.” BY STEVE DUNO
KNOW YOUR CATS
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The Next “It” Cat Hanging with celebrity cat Nala.
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13 Secrets Your Cat Wants You to Know
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Enchanting and Endangered Get to know these small wild cats (they have a lot in common with the feline you share your couch with) before it’s too late. BY JEANNE BERGMAN
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Missing 68 Your Lost Cat Action Plan: here’s what to do if your cat goes missing (hint: time is of the essence).
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Take Way Better Photos of Your Cat 9 tips from photographer Grace Chon that will drastically improve your cat photos.
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BY MIESHELLE NAGELSCHNEIDER
BY ROSE FROSEK
BY LAUREN CHEAL AND TARYN CHEAL
BY JEN REEDER
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The Sphynx Furless and fantastic. Get to know the happy Buddha of the cat kingdom. BY KELLY CALDWELL
THE GOODS 38
Style at Home A house is not a home without a cat.
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Your Instinctual Cat Finds to tickle your cat’s fancy. Want It! Our current obsessions.
BODY AND SOUL 56
Pumpkin, Your Cat’s Digestive Cure All; Yes, This Actually Exists. And Cats Are Crazy For It
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Keep Calm and Carry On; Cats Go Hungry Too; Is It Safe to Feed My Cat Raw Eggs?; Quotable Quote
LIVING 24
We're Giving it Away! We've got months of fab giveaways, from cool cat beds to terrific books, just waiting to be won!
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The Cat Came Back A cat who passed returns to offer comfort—or so it seems. BY SUZANNE BEECHER
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Warning: Extreme Cuteness! The most magical place on Earth? It just might be the Rocky Ridge Refuge, home to a veritable Noah’s ark of rescued animals.
66 COVER CAT It's Nala, the internet's next "it" cat! For more on this cutie, turn to page 36. Photographed by Lisa Scarsi.
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DIY Craft: Scout’s Honour! Super-cute camp-inspired badges made for adorning everything from your sweater to a jar of treats.
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6 Novel Treats to Tempt Your Cat From salmon water to broccoli, these healthy tidbits may just tickle your cat’s taste buds. BY ELIZABETH PASK AND LAURA SCOTT
66 Injured Cat Inspires People All Over the World Meet Tyrone, Modern Cat's Star Cat Contest winner! BY ROSE FROSEK; PHOTOGRAPHED BY LAUREN KAPLAN
REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Stuff We Love 12 The Scoop 18 Photo Contest 78 Marketplace
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How I Met My Cat An injured kitten heals a broken heart. BY LISA EVANS
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Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good cat and good book. Editor-in-Chief Connie Wilson’s must-reads.
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How to Read Your Cat’s Body Language An illustrated guide. BY KIM SMITH
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here’s a birthday in the house: Modern Cat magazine is TWO! This issue marks the second anniversary of our launch! Thanks to you, our devoted, enthusiastic, and all around super-wonderful readers, Modern Cat has grown in leaps and bounds. We couldn’t have done it without you! We’re thrilled to have such an amazing, interesting, and engaged following. You inspire us to constantly raise the bar of what a magazine for cat-lovers looks like. After all, we think we cat people deserve the best and we aim to deliver! We see it as our job to delight, educate, and generally help you live a better life with your cats. Part of this is to help you get inside the feline mind and, to that end, we have insight from some pretty darn inspiring cat experts, like “Cat Daddy” Jackson Galaxy and the “Cat Whisperer” Mieshelle Nagelschneider. The latter’s fascinating article on the play sequence—a lot of people are doing it wrong—may just revolutionize how you play with your cat (p 36). We also address litter box woes (p 32), round up instinctual cat toys that will thrill your cat, share finds for the home that will delight you, as well as books to curl up with (you’re definitely going to want to check out Catification, Jackson Galaxy’s new book on “catifying” your home on p 75), plus so much more. (Flip to page 44 for “13 Secrets Your Cat Wants You to Know,” for one!) Thank you for being part of the Modern Cat family. We couldn’t ask for a better community!
I recently received my Summer issue of Modern Cat. I had some extra scrap yarn so I thought I would make some of your “Amazeballs” toys. As you can see Kalli (Calico) and Fizz (Tortie) are enjoying them! As a foster parent, I enjoyed your article on the socialization of feral cats.—Ellen Lutes My cats love the wand we won on August 1st. Oscar and Gustaph love following it around, chasing it, and tackling it! Thank you Modern Cat magazine!—Morgan Nerat I wanted to thank Modern Cat magazine for the wonderful Catty Stacks! I was the winner of your contest recently and donated the four Catty Stacks to my local rescue center, South Coast Humane Society. Many thanks for the wonderful prize. Lots of kitties will be able to have fun while waiting for adoption!—Kate Higgins
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Thanks for the amazing cheese ball recipe! It tastes great and looks so adorable!! —Laila Barker Connie Wilson, Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief
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C ON TRIBUT OR S The lovely Grace Chon is a photographer specializing in animals, lifestyle images, and celebrities with their pets. So when we wanted to share tips on how to capture magazineworthy shots of your cats (page 70), we went straight to Grace! Grace’s clients include ad agencies, publishing companies, celebrities, non-profit organizations, TV shows, and Modern Cat’s sister publication, Modern Dog! She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and baby boy, and spends her time creating gorgeous images of people and pets. Check out more of Grace’s work at gracechon.com.
FALL/WINTER 2014/15 VOL 3 NO 2 Publisher
Modern Cat Inc. Editor-in-Chief
Connie Wilson Editor & Creative Director
Jennifer Nosek Audience Development & Digital Marketing
Lauren Cheal Social Media & Events Coordinator
Taryn Cheal Design & Production
Maxine Matishak Design & Production Assistant
Vanessa Dong Sales & Marketing
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For Lauren Kaplan, taking pictures of pets is her passion and her livelihood. She has been photographing animals since her early childhood. After earning two degrees, she decided to combine her love of animals and photography in her photography business, Pet Imagery. We were delighted to assign her to the Star Cat shoot with Tyrone (p 66) as her sensibilities so mirror our own. Lauren lives in South Philadelphia, where she is honoured to take many private commissions for photo sessions with people and their pets. Check out her work at petimagery.com.
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Cecilia de Roca Chan Honourary Editor-at-Large
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For our cover shoot, photographer Lisa Scarsi got to combine her passions—animals and photography—and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the gorgeous results. Lisa lives in Southern California with her husband John, human children Angelo and Sophia, and a mini-menagerie of permanent and foster fur-children. She often travels for work and has been featured in exhibits, magazines, and books. To see more of her work go to lisascarsi.com. For more on our adorable cover cat, Nala, turn to page 36.
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