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Cat coat colors linked to personality

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Calico and tortoiseshell rated the lowest

I remember the first time someone told me their theory that cat coat colors were linked to their personality. I brushed it off at the time, but in the years since then, I have heard it many times from a wide variety of people - from your average everyday cat lover to veterinarians.

Lost cat found 16 months later, living it up in a cat food warehouse

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Twice his size!

Most cats don't do well on a long absence. They come home matted, skinny, and desperate for food and attention. But not Clive, a Norwegian Forest Cat who slipped away from his home in Nottinghamshire, England in October, 2014.

Vancouver cat cafe runs out of cats

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They were all adopted!

Talk about a great problem to have! Catfe, a cat cafe in Vancouver, British Colombia, ran out of cats. All of the cats for the cafe are sourced from the local SPCA. The cafe was only open for three weeks before all of the cats were adopted, and bad weather over the holiday season made it difficult for them to get more cats in.

Family finds frozen kitten; nurses him back to health

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Happy holidays for one little kitty!

On Thanksgiving morning, the Bingham family was having a relaxing time in their family cabin in Utah, surrounded by snowdrifts - and something else.

The family discovered a stray kitten, seemingly lifeless, who had been buried beneath a snowdrift. The kitten had no detectible heartbeat, but the Binghams didn't give up hope.

Cat nearly misses out on his Christmas gift

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ID requirements nearly ruined Ted's Christmas

When Ted the cat's owner's mother sent Ted a kitty advent calendar for Christmas, she little knew what problems she would cause. She addressed the package to "Ted Mahrer-Kirk," but his owner Brittany wasn't home when the package arrived.

Vincent the cat gets two prosthetic legs

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Kitty gets a new lease on life

A three year-old cat named Vincent is up and mobile now, thanks to two titanium prosthetic legs. Veterinary orthopedic surgeon Mary Sarah Bergh designed and implanted the titanium legs, and says that Vincent is doing quite well in post-op.

Cats don't kill as many birds as we've been told

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Don't believe the hype

A few years back, the Smithsonian released a study which claimed that cats (both feral and domestic) kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds, and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals a year. These shocking statistics were passed along by the media without question, and have been used to affect public policy, including regulations put into place that affect feral cat populations.

The world's largest cat painting

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And the story behind it!

Clocking in at 227 pounds on a 6 foot by 8.5 foot canvas, the "World's Largest Cat Painting" recently sold at a Sotheby's auction for a staggering $826,000. The painting was so heavy that carpenters had to be called in to build a special wall just to display the painting for the auction.

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