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5 Ways to Stimulate Your Stay-at-Home Cat: Try These Cheap & Easy Feline Boredom Busters!
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YOUR NEW KITTEN SURVIVAL GUIDE Have Your Cats Unfriended Each Other? SOCIAL HIERARCHY & YOUR MULTI-CAT HOUSEHOLD moderncat.com DISPLAY UNTIL JULY 31 ‘17
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6 Things You Are Doing That Annoy Your Cat p74
It's Instagram star White Coffee Cat!
Meet This Sweet Survivor
PLUS: APPS FOR CATS! DIY WAND TOY! ADOPT THESE CATS! KITTEN EMOJIS!
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Think Your Cat Would Make a Wonderful Therapy Animal? Here's How To Get Started! p60
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FEATURES 26 Have Your Cats Unfriended Each Other? The importance of the social hierarchy in your multi-cat household. BY MIESHELLE NAGELSCHNEIDER
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PHOTOS MICHELLE FURBACHER
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Kitten Emojis Pop culture symbolism meets the stars of the Internet.
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BY JENNIFER NOSEK
5 Ways to Stimulate Your Stay-at-Home Cat Try these cheap and easy feline boredom busters!
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Cat-tastic Décor Finds to thrill both your cat and your inner interior designer.
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Let’s Play! Toys to totally delight your cat.
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Look What We Found! The Modern Cat team’s current obsessions.
BY LAUREN CHEAL
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Holy Guacamole! Talking cats and books with Skippyjon Jones creator Judy Schachner.
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How To Prep For A Kitten Follow these steps to seamlessly welcome your new kitten into your home!
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58 Apps For Cats You're not the only one in your household who can be entertained by a tablet! We give three apps for cats a try. BY LAURA DENNIS 60
Sweet Therapy Therapy cats are making a big difference—in hospitals, nursing homes, and in the lives of their handlers.
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6 Things That Are Offending Your Cat Are you guilty of these feline faux pas? Turn to page 66 to find out! BY LAUREN CHEAL
BY NOA NICHOL
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Good Karma Handcrafted cat caves are doing a world of good.
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Feeling Groovy; We Tried It!; Modern Cat Poll
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Know Your Cats Impress your friends with this cat trivia!
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Let Us Brighten Your Day Our most popular (read: cutest) social media posts from the last 12 months.
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DIY Craft: Wonderful Cat Wand Toy Making a wand toy is easier than you think! Here’s the how-to for this deceptively simple, super-cute, cat-approved toy!
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Tricia Helfer Knows Cats—and She Wants to Help You Understand Them Too. Your most pressing cat questions answered.
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REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Stuff We Love 12 The Scoop 20 Photo Contest 78 Marketplace
80 COVER CAT It's Instagram star White Coffee Cat! Flip to page 46 for everything you ever wanted to know about this feline social media star. Photographed by Jack Dixon.
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The Cat With 1.4 Million Followers Blue eyes, fluffy cheeks, and a great personality: White Coffee Cat, a crazy-adorable, cancer-surviving cat, is way more popular than pretty much everyone you know.
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Where Lattés Meet Cat Cuddles Cat cafés—magical places where you can drink coffee, eat baked goods, and play with cats—are spreading across North America. BY ELISABETH FILLMORE
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Adopt Me! These adoptable cats are in search of a forever home. Could your new best friend be featured in these pages? Turn to page 72 to find out!
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True Heart Meet our Star Cat contest winner and the remarkable woman behind his rescue. BY ROSE FROSEK
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Remarkable Cat Facts Rumours abound where our feline friends are concerned. These cat facts, however, are all entirely true and nonetheless remarkable for it!
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Last Lick: More Cats in Boxes Because we can't get enough of these cuties!
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EDITOR'S LETTER
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’d like to start this issue with a note of gratitude to our amazing readers. Together we’ve created a super-fun and inspiring community of cat lovers. Our tribe is the coolest! A big thank you for being part of it. When we set about creating this issue we thought about two things: your happiness and your cats’, and so we packed this issue with things that will improve both of your lives. From the best engaging cat toys (p 40) to behavioural advice from none other than Mieshelle Nagelschneider (aka The Cat Whisperer), we’ve got you covered. Think your cat would make a wonderful therapy animal? We tell you how to get started on page 60! There are tons of crazy-cute cat photos, of course, as well as giveaways, cat furniture that actually looks great, covetable cat caves, your cat questions answered (p 42), adoptable cats, and so much more! And if you like all that, we’d love to invite you to join us online. You can get even more Modern Cat daily by following us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Think indispensible cat advice, Tummy Tuesdays, exclusive giveaways and contests, and, of course, lots of funny and adorable photos and videos. Cat lovers unite!
Shhhh! How To Stop Pesky Nighttime Meowing! “I did all these things when my cat was a kitten. Made sure she had a lot of playtime in the evening (the hunt) then right before I went to bed I'd feed her (the kill). When she's done she comes to bed to clean herself and pretty much sleeps with me the rest of the night.” —D.Michelle Swarts
In gratitude,
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Connie Wilson, Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief
I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle
All the feels... “I love your magazine. It has great articles and I love all the advice you offer. It helps me with my cats and helping the strays.”—Debbie Brown
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We’re thrilled to have Casey Elise Christopher contribute to this issue! Casey is a cat advocate and photographer best known for The Black Cat Project and The Beauty of Blind Cats. She lives in Los Angeles with her cat Imogen and two dogs Sherlock and Molly and volunteers with several rescues and shelters and uses photography to help animals get adopted. Turn to page 74 to see Casey’s photos of our inspiring Star Cat contest winner Thomas! Find more photos or book a photo shoot on Instagram (@ImogenTheKitten) or at CaseyElise.com.
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Modern Cat Inc. Editor-in-Chief
Connie Wilson Editor & Creative Director
Jennifer Nosek Social Media & Events Coordinator, Subscription Services
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Celine Benipayo Copywriter & Administrative Assistant
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Cecilia de Roca Chan, CPA, CGA Honourary Editor-at-Large
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Modern Cat staffer Lauren Cheal is a long-time feline fanatic who loves to spend time with her two cats—one fluffy shy guy (Lincoln) and one high needs buddy (the sociable Lyle). Lauren loves creating inspiring and adorable content and sharing it with our outstanding fans. She really wants people to know that cats aren’t jerks (they’re just bored!), and that older cats make awesome pets. Check out her insightful articles “6 Things That Are Offending Your Cat” and "5 Ways to Stimulate a Stay-at-Home Cat" on pages 66 and 34!
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This issue marks the talented illustrator Martha Pluto's first contribution to Modern Cat. Martha is a quirky and outgoing Torontobased illustrator. She experiments with different traditional mediums and bases her work heavily on lines, shapes, and space. Her favourite colours to use in her work are reds and blues. When Martha isn't creating artwork, she cares for her plants and dreams about the day she can rescue a Bull Terrier and/or help foster animals so they can find their forever homes. Check out Martha's awesome illustrations on page 26.
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