Show Notes: Welcome to Episode Eight: FIV, or Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. You can send questions and cat pictures to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com, follow us on instagram at lifeintheatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod Sources: https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-immunodeficiency-virus-fiv https://www.marvistavet.com/owning-a-feline-immunodeficiency-virus-positive-fiv-cat.pml https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023398800087 https://www.alleycat.org/resources/feline-immu ..read more

Show Notes: Welcome to Episode Seven: First Vet Visit Jitters, covering the basics on what your cat’s first vet visit will be like. You can send questions and cat pictures to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com, follow us on instagram at lifeintheatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod Lavinia’s first weekend: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPfGgjG ..read more

Show Notes: Welcome to Episode Six! Today’s topic is Pangur Ban. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod Traditional Scottish Gaelic Waulking song: https://youtu.be/bOIZC16Jtz8 Sources https://brehonacademy.org/the-white-cat-and-the-monk-pangur-ban-a-9th-c-old-irish-poem/ http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/10/pangur-ban/ https://shepherdsdream.com/blog/wonders-of-wool/waulking-songs/ https://www.goerie.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2020/06/29/cats-often-welcome-among-monks-pet-connection/113461114 ..read more

Show Notes: Welcome to Episode Five! Today’s topic is Tama, the Goddess of the Wakayama Electric Railway. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod Sources https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202202/202202_07_en.html https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190522-the-cat-who-saved-a-japanese-rail-line https://www.avclub.com/this-feline-station-master-always-kept-things-meowving-1846403834 ..read more

Welcome to EpisodeFour! Today’s topic is catnip, and why cats love it so much. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on TikTok at lifeinthecatlanepod OC being a catnip criminal: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRyR3yvC/?k=1 Johnny demonstrating the effects of valarian root: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRy8YLG2/?k=1 Sources https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/catnip-nepeta-cataria/ https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/bug_trackers/ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf-LINK-325-41.pdf https://www.science.org/content/article/why-cats ..read more

Show Notes: Welcome to Episode Three! Today’s topic is FIP, or Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on TikTok at lifeinthecatlanepod Sources: https://sockfip.org/summary-of-gs-441524-treatment-for-fip-2/# https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748294/ https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-infectious-peritonitis https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/2605127/FIP_Brochure.pdf ..read more

Welcome to Episode Two! Today’s topic is Trap-Neuter-Return, or TNR and how you can get involved. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod This episodes sources: https://www.alleycat.org/resources/why-trap-neuter-return-feral-cats-the-case-for-tnr/ https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/getting-started/what-is-tnr https://kittencoalition.org/news-events/statistics/#:~:text=Of%20those%2C%20approximately%203.4%20million,are%20returned%20to%20their%20owners. https://www.animalleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cats ..read more

Welcome to Episode One! Today’s topic is Community Cats, and what it means to be domesticated or feral. Send your questions to lifeinthecatlanepod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod This episode’s sources: http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2017/4/the-tragedy-of-the-most-hated-bird-in-america https://www.alleycat.org/community-cat-care/what-is-a-community-cat/ https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/zoology/item/how-did-cats-become-domesticated/ https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/getting-started/what-is-a-feral-cat https://figopetinsurance.com/blog/sc ..read more

How the Garner Colony got it’s start, and why I became a passionate advocate for TNR, Colony Cats, and education ..read more