Caring for a senior cat is both rewarding and challenging. While they are less likely to tear up your couch or knock something over from having the zoomies, they will rely on you to pay close attention to them and their habits as they mature and become less active. Senior cats may snuggle more as their body weight reduces and their need for warmth increases, or they might become less of a lap cat due to aching joints from the extra pounds they’ve gained in their increasingly

October is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ (ASPCA) Adopt-A-Dog Month® and also the American Humane Society’s Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month. Adopting a shelter dog not only saves a dog’s life, but it also helps slow down the increase of backyard breeders and puppy mills where dogs are often mistreated and neglected. It also breaks the vicious cycle of the many unwanted puppy mill breeding dogs or genetically undesirable puppies that come from mills w