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WHO WERE YOU 20 YEARS AGO?
A couple photos of Najma, taken in the apartment we were living in on 9/11/2001, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The bottom shows the phone (a landline, remember those!) on which I tried in vain all throughout that day to call relatives and coworkers letting them know I was okay. Both landlines and cell towers were…
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The Death of New York City Cat Girl
I think we “animal people” grieve so much when a beloved pet dies because a part of us dies with them. At least that’s how it’s always been for me. The part of me that died with my dear Katusha, who passed away a month ago from cancer at only eight years old, is the…
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Sweet Katusha: Thank You For Being So Good to Me
It’s been about a month now that my dear Katusha passed away and I’m still mourning her, as I always will in some form. She had an aggressive form of abdominal cancer and I didn’t even know she was sick until she suddenly stopped eating and drinking. It was too late to do much. She…
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Irina the Belgian Marshmallow
This post is cross-posted at MyCatJeoffryBooks and is about the rescue dog I adopted last year. Since there are so many dog and cat lovers out there – and since my next series will be set in a cat cafe and dog bar 馃檪 I thought readers here may be interested. 2019 ended up being…
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Sweet Rhea
Cross–posted here. Rhea passed away from her cancer November 29, almost a month ago now, and I鈥檝e been quite heartbroken. She moved cross-country with me, and lived with me in five different apartments, and finally a house. She鈥檇 been with me through a tumultuous time in my life. I adopted her from the ASPCA in…
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My Cat Rhea’s Experience With Stereotactic Radiosurgery
I posted this originally on my new My Cat Jeoffry blog, here, and here, but decided to cross-post here as well. My cat, Rhea, recently underwent聽stereotactic radiosurgery聽(SRS). I thought I鈥檇 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…
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WITTY KITTY is Now MY CAT JEOFFRY BOOKSTORE AND CAT LOUNGE
Just letting everyone know I changed the name of the cat cafe / bookstore聽I long to open from WITTY KITTY to MY CAT JEOFFRY BOOKSTORE AND CAT LOUNGE. You can find it here. If you’re an avid reader and an animal lover or if you’re interested in adoptable kitties, please follow us! Right now, it’s…
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TO A MOUSE: My New Animal Literature Blog
I started a new Tumblr blog focused on books about animals. It’s called “To A Mouse: An Animal Literature Blog.” I had been writing a Tumblr called “Literary Aperitif,” in which I paired a cocktail with a book. But I started to get migraines every time I went near alcohol 馃檨 So I couldn’t…
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Sofia’s Year in Review
2015: wow. I’ll start with the very first day of the year, January 1, New Year’s Day. It seems like an apt place to start. I woke up initially having no idea where I was. I was in a crate, in a very quiet place. There were no other crazy yapping, howling, barking dogs, like…
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Strut Your Mutt!
Hey Everyone, Sofia and I will be participating in Strut Your Mutt, in Los Angeles this October. We are walking with Best Friends Animal Society, L.A. The event raises money for animal shelters and rescues across the country – a cause everyone who knows me well knows is near and dear to my heart!…