Cats – My Cat Jeoffry Bookstore and Cat Lounge

ELVIS AND THE WORLD AS IT STANDS

By TJ August 10, 2021Books, Cat Adoption, Cats, Dogs, Fiction, Middle-Grade, Pets

Love, love, love this new middle-grade novel! ELVIS AND THE THE WORLD AS IT STANDS by Lisa Frenkel Riddiough with sweetly evocative illustrations by Olivia Chin Mueller stars Elvis, a kitten, who is adopted from a shelter in the San Francisco Bay area during a special Fourth of July…

Sweet Katusha, We Will Love You Forever

By TJ April 11, 2021Cats, Personal, Pet Illness, Pets

Our dear kitty, Katusha, passed away about a month ago from a fast-growing cancer, and we are still pretty devastated.

THE CAT I NEVER NAMED by Amra Sabic-El-Reyess and Laura L. Sullivan

By TJ August 26, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction, Teens

Katusha with our copy of the book - a digital advance copy from Bloomsbury Wow. This is a stunning, eye-opening, un-put-downable memoir about a teenage girl and her family struggling to survive the 1990s genocide in Bosnia. Amra is Muslim and when the Serbs invade her country, and her…

Sofia and Rhea

By TJ June 9, 2020Cats, Personal, Pet Illness

"Mom," Sofia says to me. "I sense Rhea out back. All the times you wouldn't let her out because you were scared she would get hurt by the owls and coyotes and fast cars on the nearby freeway, and she wanted to go out so badly. Well, now she…

Sweet Rhea

By TJ June 9, 2020Cats, Personal, Pet Illness

This post was originally posted December 25, 2018 here. Rhea passed away from her cancer November 29, almost a month ago now, and I've been quite heartbroken. She moved cross-country with me, and lived with me in five different apartments, and finally a house. She'd been with me through…

Update on Rhea

By TJ June 9, 2020Cats, Personal, Pet Illness

I last wrote about Rhea's experience with stereotactic radiosurgery about two weeks after she had finished treatment. She was doing well then, which of course thrilled me because I had no idea what to expect. It's now been a little over two months. A couple of days after we…

My Cat Rhea’s Experience With Stereotactic Radiosurgery

By TJ June 9, 2020Cats, Personal

First posted here, on November 7, 2018. My cat, Rhea, recently underwent stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). I thought I'd write a post about it since, after the oncology vet recommended it, we tried to research it online but found very little. Especially about SRS and cats. SRS is a new…

Review, DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction

I can't believe I hadn't read this memoir when it first came out in 2008! I'd somehow missed it, but found an updated edition from 2017 on kindle and just finished reading it as an ebook. This version has some added later content, updating us on the lives of…

Best Friends Animal Society National Conference 2018!

By TJ June 9, 2020Animal Activism, Animal Rescues, Animal Sanctuaries, Books, Cats, Conferences, Dogs, Fiction, Nonfiction

Note: originally posted July 2018 before this site was updated. Just got back from the Best Friends National Conference and I am so invigorated and inspired and amazed at all the good work being done out there on behalf of animals! It was my first time at this convention…

Happy Adoptaversary, Katusha!

By TJ June 9, 2020Cat Adoption, Cats, Personal

Five years ago today, we added Katusha to our household! She is one of the inspirations behind the My Cat Jeoffry "cat bookstore" because of her penchant for snuggling up next to me in bed or curling up in my lap on the couch and letting me read to…