My cat, Serra, 1, refuses to dress in costume, but she looks spooky enough just hidden behind this curtain!
—Elliot Stokes, Designer
How could you ever say no to that face?!
Animal shelters across the country are participating in Rachael Ray’s ASPCA $100K Challenge. This cute guy came from the Young Williams Animal Center in Knoxville, TN!
The Challenge is an AMAZING program that is all about getting homeless cats and dogs out of shelters and into loving homes by inviting these shelters to save more lives than ever before. In 2010, the contestants increased lives saved by more than 7,000 in the three-month time frame, and last year’s contestants increased lives saved by almost 9,000!
This year’s Challenge started a little over a month ago and has already saved almost 5,000 lives! That’s a lot of adorable faces.
Rach is a known advocate for animals and a big supporter of animal welfare groups. Did you know that 100 percent of the proceeds from Rach’s pet food, Nutrish, (inspired by her pit bull, Isaboo!) provide funding and support to organizations like the ASPCA? She also loves to home cook meals just for pets! Like Isaboo’s Butternut Squash Mac and Cheddar. See what she has to say about the Challenge.
Follow the Challenge on Twitter with the hashtags #100KChallenge and #100KSaved.
For more info about the Challenge, and to find participating shelters near you, check out challenge.aspcapro.org.
#CatVidFest 2012 Draws 10,000!
Remember Henri? He’s the somber star of Henri 2, Paw de Deux and several other inventive, thought-provoking and mind-boggingly brilliant cat videos. Well, now he’s not only a moviestar, but a decorated one at that.
More than 10,000 feline movie buffs gathered together last week at the Walker Art Center’s Open Field in Minneapolis for the first ever Internet Cat Video Festival and bestow the people’s choice award, the Golden Kitty, to Will Braden, creator of Henri 2, Paw de Deux.
Now Henri and his creator are hitting the big time—Animal Planet. The film will be played during the season finale of My Cat From Hell on September 8 at 8 pm.
Braden, a filmmaker from Seattle, makes his living from Henri, or le Chat Noir—there’s an online store dedicated to selling Henri-themed T-shirts, mugs, posters, laptop skins, etc., which makes $1,000 a week!
In addition to the Golden Kitty winner, there were more than 10,000 online nominations submitted from around the world. The categories included comedy, drama, foreign, animated, musical, documentary, art house and more.
Watch the other nominations from the festival, follow Open Field on Twitter @OpenField and check out their Facebook.
Congrats Henri!
—Morgan Gibson, Editorial Assistant
#CatVidFest 2012
Feline fanatics of the world—unite! The first ever Internet Cat Video Festival will celebrate the funny, forlorn and just plain cute videos of the furry, stealthy creatures at the end of next month in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The festival has already received 7,000 submissions—7,000!—since they opened nominations a little less than a month ago. You have just three more days to nominate your favorite Internet cat video. For inspiration, watch our favorite feline film, Henri 2, Paw de Deux (above).
For more info, follow the festival’s venue, Walker Art Center’s Open Field, on Twitter @OpenField and check out their Facebook. We can’t wait to see the winners!
Fin.
—Morgan Gibson, Editorial Assistant
National Pet Day…isn’t just for dogs!
This is Ptolemy Pthompson, who looks awfully cute while laying down. Once he’s on four paws, though, look out! Nobody’s feet are safe from his innate (and occasionally overpowering) attack-cat urge.
— Stephanie Thompson, Production Associate
(Source: rachaelraymag.com)
