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How to Tell If Your Cats Don’t Like Each Other—And What To Do If They Don’t p62
The lifestyle magazine for modern cats and their companions
SPRING· SUMMER 2016
7 Steps
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to Catify Your Home
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Get your freak on: Toys to drive your cat wild! p34
Do You Have The Personality Of a Cat?
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It 's Pudge!
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Cat-tastic Décor p18
Win Cool Cat Stuff! p16
GROW GREENS FOR YOUR CAT! WALK YOUR CAT ON A LEASH STUFF WE LOVE ADORABLE CATS GALORE!
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How to stop your cat from spraying p22 + Your cat could be in the magazine! p21
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VOL 5
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FEATURES 22
How to Stop Your Cat From Urine Spray-marking Are you at your wits' end? Help is here!
BY MIESHELLE NAGELSCHNEIDER
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Rare Beauty Eight uncommon cat breeds and the cool traits (think curly hair, a love of water, wild cat spots, and more) that make them unique. BY KELLY CALDWELL
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Best Friends Forever A cat lover’s dream vacation.
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7 Steps To Creating a Cat-friendly Home Make your home a haven for your cat.
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Do You Have the Personality of a Cat? Take this quiz to find out!
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How to Tell If Your Cats Don’t Like Each Other—And What To Do If They Don’t
BY POOJA MENON
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Tricia Helfer Knows Cats The amazing Tricia Helfer—actress, supermodel, and serious cat person (rescuer, end-animal testing campaigner, and semi-professional cat cuddler) —answers your cat questions!
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It's Pudge! If you haven’t already, be prepared to fall for this famous cat provoking collective awww’s across the internet. BY ROSE FROSEK
BY JENNIFER NOSEK
BY ROSE FROSEK
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Cat-tastic Home Decor Finds to thrill both you and your cat.
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Toy Time! Get your freak on—toys to drive your cat wild!
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BODY & SOUL 48
Your Cat is Going To Need Those Teeth For A Long Time Here's how to help her keep them!
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The New Kidney Disease Test That Could Save Your Cat's Life
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It's Time to Upgrade Your Cat's Dining Set; Have a Field Day!
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Adopt These Cats! Consider us your personal matchmaker; your new best friend may be on this page!
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Stuff We Love Modern Cat staffers' current obsessions.
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We’re Giving It Away! We’ve got months of amazing giveaways, from cat activity centers to subscription boxes packed with toys, treats, and surprises just waiting to be won! Turn to page 18 to see what’s up for grabs.
REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Stuff We Love 12 The Scoop 20 Photo Contest 77 Marketplace
36 COVER CAT It's Pudge! If you haven’t already, be prepared to fall for this famously adorable cat. Flip to page 72! Photographed by Kady Lone.
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K U D D E L S U B M I TT E D BY J O S E F L EO N A R D W I E L A N D
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Garden of Eatin’ Create a green and grazeable feast for your cat. BY DARCY MATHESON
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Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good cat and a good book. Editor-in-Chief Connie Wilson’s selection of must-reads for cat lovers.
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Love Conquers All How our Star Cat Contest winner united a community in its rally against animal cruelty.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENILYN SHEPPARD
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Should I Be Walking My Cat on a Leash? Take your cat on a supervised outdoor adventure! BY TARYN CHEAL
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The Algonquin Hotel Cat The best place to stay in New York City? Obviously the hotel where your check in will be presided over by the resident rescue cat!
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Last Lick Special Delivery! Who wouldn’t sign for these adorable parcels?
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OUR R E ADE R S WR IT E
ILLUSTRATION KIM SMITH
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e’re so excited to unleash the latest issue of Modern Cat! We hope you find this issue as lovable and entertaining as your best friend—and we’re pretty darn certain you will. It’s packed with adorable cat photos (first things first, after all), expert behavioural advice, must-haves for you and your cat, and so much more. It’s our goal to improve all the cat-person relationships out there by advocating for cats and helping you understand your little “wild cat” better. One of the reasons cats so beguile us is that they retain, to a large degree, their wild nature. This, however, means that to have a great relationship with your cat you need to understand the feline psyche. By getting into the minds of your cats and understanding the why’s behind their sometimes mystifying behaviour, you can deepen your bond and better provide for their needs—and at the same time curb unwanted behaviour. Talk about a win-win situation! To this end, “Cat Whisperer” Mieshelle Nagelschneider explains how to prevent urine-spray marking (p 22), we round up toys that will delight your cat (get ready for a freak-out play session!—p 34), show you how to catify your home in seven easy steps (p 40), share beautiful cat-décor you’re going to want in your home (p 26)—and that’s just for starters. The super-adorable (and super-famous) Pudge is on the cover and we chat with her human, Kady Lone about Pudge’s rise to stardom (p 72). Rounding this out is more essential expert advice, like what to do if your cats don’t like each other, adorable adoptable cats (find a new best friend!), how to grow cat greens, and more. It’s my hope that you curl up with your cat and enjoy the issue as much as we loved putting it together for you!
CONNIE WILSON WITH DAO DAO, PHOTO TANYA KING
EDITOR'S LETTER
9 Signs Your Cat Loves You >> moderncat.com/9SignsCatLove
“Most of us cat folks know that our kitties love us, but some of the signs can be subtle. This article from Modern Cat magazine is actually pretty good at pointing them out!” —Marci, Feline Behavior Solutions
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Love this magazine! Great articles and wonderful photos too!! —Rosalie Kaye
9 Foods to Never Give Cats >> moderncat.com/9foodstoavoid
Connie Wilson, Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief
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I'm glad I read this. I would let my cat lick my tuna, mayo, onion, mix bowl when I was done. No more!
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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C ON TRIBUT OR S Photographer Jenilyn Sheppard has melded her lifetime love of animals and the arts to become one of Ontario’s leading pet photographers. She has been photographing pets since attending school during the days of film and has received numerous awards, working on projects from photographing celebrities to national corporate projects. Jenilyn has settled into Brights Grove, a beach community near Sarnia, Ontario, where she lives with her eight-year-old son and two rescue dogs and operates her pet photography company, LimeHippo. See Jenilyn’s photos of the adorable Joe, winner of our Star Cat photo contest, on page 60!
S P R I N G · S U M M E R 2 0 1 6 VOL 5 NO 1 Publisher
Modern Cat Inc. Editor-in-Chief
Connie Wilson Editor & Creative Director
Jennifer Nosek Audience Development & Digital Marketing Director
Lauren Cheal Social Media & Events Coordinator, Subscription Services
Taryn Cheal Assistant Art Director
Natalie Gagnon Sales & Marketing
Juila Klymenko, Jacqueline Lowndes, Nav Nagra Accounting & Subscription Services
Celine Benipayo Copywriter & Administrative Assistant
Rebekah Chotem Controller
Cecilia de Roca Chan Honourary Editor-at-Large
Darcy Matheson is a television journalist, pet blogger, and founder of PetFundr, a crowdfunding site solely dedicated to helping animal welfare projects. This proud mama to two sassy terriers is passionate about environmentally-friendly animal care. Her new book, Greening Your Pet Care, released April 1st, is a terrific guide for safe and sustainable pet care—from nutrition to habitat to activities—designed to minimize your pet’s environmental “paw print.” Flip to page 32 for Darcy’s how-to for growing edible garden greens for your cats!
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Modern Cat contributor Pooja Menon is an animal lover, an animal welfare professional, a writer, and an avid traveler, having lived in Dubai, England, India, and Los Angeles prior to moving to San Francisco. She works for the San Francisco SPCA as a fundraiser/ advocate/storyteller on behalf of shelter cats, dogs, rabbits, and mice looking for loving homes. One of her most favourite ways to spend her time is to educate people on what amazing pets shelter animals make. In this issue we’re thrilled to share Pooja’s article on how to establish peace in your multi-cat home (page 62).
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