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Sweeps4Bloggers is hosting a Loving Pets Bella Bowl giveaway.

Bella Bowls are beautiful! They’re made of stainless steel and have a poly-resin coating on the outside. Each bowl has a cute paw print and bone design on the outside and comes in 10 different colors to match your decor. The different colors also help keep things straight when you have multiple pets with different dietary needs. There are several sizes available and these are the color choices:

Little Miss Autumn would love to win a Paparazzi Pink bowl to counter the blue bowls the boys have (not that you can see the outside of theirs in the raised feeder but, hey, she knows they are blue!

Enter here to win (check out the extra ways to earn bonus entries)

I have no idea where I bought this, I bought it a while ago and after using it, lost it and could not find it anywhere. One of my cats is not great at grooming himself, and despite regular grooming, often gets matted fur in some areas. This has been a real problem over the last few months since he has taken a real disliking to grooming but likes baths so he tends to cement in the matted fur playing in water.

I have tried numerous dematting tools on him but none worked as well as the tool I knew I had somewhere at home (shown on the right on the image here)

It is hard to see from the image, but these dematting rakes are not straight edged like many, but curve under making it easier to get the matted fur and giving you a small area between the skin and the matted fur to hold as you work the rake through the matted fur.

This obviously hurts him less than many of the other tools we have tried with him, we can use it for a good 15 minutes before he starts hissing at us, with many of the tools, he would hiss almost as soon as we touched him with it.  After two 10-15 minute sessions, we have dematted one whole side with no real pulling leaving bald spots as happened with another brush and he seems much happier minus the matted fur and enjoyed his furminator grooming this afternoon.  Hopefully now we found the brush again (and I blogged it so I can remember who made it this time, walking into a pet store and saying it had a nice soft handle and a curved blade and is blue and grey did not find me my favourite tool) we can keep up on the matts before they get bad again.

These comfortable grip, extremely durable grooming tools are perfect for in-home and/or professional use. Softly cushioned non-slip handles provide cushion and control while absorbing pressure and reducing fatigue. These tools have been carefully designed to minimize effort and maximize efficiency. The durable ABS plastic reduces breakage. All ComfyCare Products are packaged for resale. Razor sharp, serrated blades tackle unmanageable mats and tough tangles quickly and efficiently while maintaining coat length. Non-slip handle for more comfortable grip. Allows greater control for safe, effective mat removal with minimal effort.

Edit: now I know the brush name, it is sold at Ren’s Pet Depot for less than $9

A while back, we tried the Cat Sitter DVD with very little interest from our older cats, so I gave it away to someone else whose cat also was not that interested in it but would watch it for a few minutes. I was checking out websites for canuckpet today (I really need to update it more often) and one had a clip of catsitter 3 on it, well Quincy and Autumn went crazy for it so I am off to buy a copy.

In the mean time, I downloaded a clip from catsitter 1 and burned it to DVD to check out their reaction (no point buying one if they get bored in 10 mins and never look at it again). Well I obviously need to dust my TV screen more often – how did it get so dusty since Thursday anyway? – because it is covered in paw prints from them trying to catch the birds and mice on the screen.

So off to PetSmart today to find a copy of Cat Sitter 3

I am sure you have seen the cartoons and email forwards about how to pill a cat, amusing but sometimes not that far off.

Greenies Pill Pockets have been a lifesaver for me, both at home and at the shelter.  A pill gun helps but why bother when they will happily take a ‘treat’from you, ensuring that they take their pill with some food.

I always try the pill in a little wet food first, a small amount of butter etc but at the shelter, Pill Pockets are cleaner and help stop the spread of disease that could be caused by using a spoon of butter or handling something that needs to be broken up into pieces.

You just pop the pill inside the treat and pinch it closed, leaving a happy cat and you not becoming one of those people in the forwards, covered in blood from trying to pill your cat.  They also come in dog sizes for bigger pills.

As I am looking forward to breakfast in bed with a (slight) hangover on New Years Day I guess the kitties can have breakfast in bed too.

This cute breakfast of eggs and bacon will be a huge hit with cats whether they like catnip or not as the large eggs (almost 5inches in diameter) are great for flinging across the room and the bacon is great for those bunny kicking kitties.

And of course, being on etsy, it is homemade so much love and care has gone in to them, from the yolks being puffed up with catnip to the crinkle sound of the crispy bacon.

Best of all?  The shipping costs to Canada are the same as for the US (gotta hate being ripped off by shipping costs)

Buy homemade toys from kgrantdesigns on etsy here

My faves:

Catnip Breakfast (shown) and Catatonica pill shaped catnip toys in a large pill bottle that you can use to freshen up the catnip scent on them

There is also an upcycled suitcase that I am sure the cats will love, but at $80 I will make my own.  What is it about cats and suitcases?