Kitty Momow’s Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert was a huge success and a TON of fun! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show. I need to thank a few more folks, and then I’ll tell you how you can get a FREE T-SHIRT!
Thanks a MILLION!
The Mellow Mushroom Bar - The venue!
OZ Music [...]
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I’m posting this at 3:30 AM on Wednesday, with just 16 hours left until the Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert starts.
I finally finished all the signs and donation collectors, or “donation stations,” as I christened them. I tried to make this event as environmentally friendly as possible and used recycled materials for as many things as [...]
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The American Humane Association sent me these pet safety tips, and now I’m passing them on to you. I hope you and your pets enjoy a happy and safe holiday season!
-MJ, aka Kitty Mowmow
Keeping pets away from poinsettias and chocolate is just the beginning. Avoid an unplanned trip to the animal hospital this holiday season [...]
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Award-winning actress and pet parent Felicity Huffman has teamed up with Iams Home for the Holidays to help raise awareness for the millions of homeless dogs and cats throughout North America. Home for the Holidays has set a goal to place 1 million orphaned animals into happy and loving homes during this year’s holiday season [...]
This song, entitled “Warm Panda Cola,” is by one of my favorite bands, The Boy Least Likely To. I’m featuring this song because it’s about a Panda! Or maybe it’s just about panda cola? Either way, since it mentions pandas, it’s worthy of mention on Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo.
I’m renewing my old habit of featuring [...]
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Everyone has an opinion about what kind of dog the Obamas should take to the White House.
Rescue a homeless dog, advise adoption shelters. Think poodle, says the American Kennel Club, which ran an online survey. Radio talk and Internet comments run the gamut from serious pet-care advice to un-PC jabs.
In his election night address, Barack [...]
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Tippi Degre grew up amongst some of the country’s most dangerous animals, echoing the adventures of Rudyard Kipling’s fictional character in The Jungle Book. For 10 years her “brother” was an elephant, her best friend was a leopard, and her playground was [...]
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Colugos (aka flying lemurs)—the closest living relatives of primates most notable for their ability to glide from tree to tree over considerable distances—are more diverse than had previously been believed, according to a new report published in the November 11th issue of Current Biology.
Primates are most familiarly represented by monkeys and [...]
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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, [...]
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Write to your congressman or congresswoman to encourage them to maintain protections for endangered species!
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has called on the Bush administration to abandon its proposed changes to rules in the Endangered Species Act in a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The changes could put “entire species and ecosystems [...]
