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In our series of pet insurance articles, we’ve shown how important it is to get a pet insurance. As pets are part of our families, we have top take care of them like they are our children. And like the human doctors, vets sometimes charge a lot to treat our little puppies or kitties or rabbits or whatever other pets we may have.

Advantages of Tesco Pet Insurance

Of course you know Tesco, the hypermarket, don’t you? Well, Tesco offers pet insurance at highest standards. If you buy a Tesco Pet Insurance online you’ll get 20% discount, which I think it is a great deal when it comes to pet insurance.
And in case you have to pets and you get pet insurance from TESCO for both of them, you’ll get 5% additional discount.

All Tesco pet insurance discounts are valid only for first time customers, and only for the first year of insurance for your pets.

Update – November 2009 – I don’t know if these discount rates are valid anymore, so please check it by yourself before buying such an insurance policy.

You insure your house, you insure your car, you get life or medical insurance for you and for your children. Why not getting an insurance for your pet, like this Tesco pet insurance or like other ones out there.

All you have to do is search the internet and you’ll find a lot of pet insurance programs which can assure you a better night sleep, knowing that you’ll have enough money in case an emergency occurs.

And if you are from UK, don’t forget to check on Tesco Pet Insurance’s online discount of 20%, if it’s still available, which I am not aware of.

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As you already know, pet insurance is very important especially in case we want to travel with our pets. Only think that you are not allowed to take your pet with you in the airplane, even if it is a puppy or a kitten, no matter how tiny. You’ll have to send it to the luggage area, where they put pets in cages, and where they might get sick and scared to death. I know people who gave their cats for good when they emigrate, because they were afraid their beloved pet would not stand the very long flight over the ocean. Moreover, a puppy is so fragile, more delicate than a bigger dog, so it’s better not to make it pass through this unpleasant experience, despite the insurance that breeders may give you that nothing may happen.

Why Would I Need Kitten Or Puppy Insurance?

Puppy insurance, as well as kitten insurance can be useful because you never know what diseases they might get, or might have already gotten before you take them home. I know cases when the little pet died within weeks after being acquired. Many breeds are expensive, and despite the fact that the insurance won’t bring your puppy or your kitty back, at least you’ll recover your money. Of course you’d treat your puppy like the rest of your family, securing the best medical treatment for him. You probably have a health insurance, why wouldn’t your puppy have insurance, too? You know, they can become sick, like humans.

It is well known that a little kitty or a puppy are curious beings, so they might stick their nose in places you never thought of, like the washing machine or the microwave oven. I don’t know if there’s any puppy insurance for such happenings, but it is definitely worth to try to insure your puppy or kitty against whatever accidents possible.

I’m sure you can find many kitty or puppy insurance options in your area, so why not start looking for them.

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We are happy to present you a new edition of 1001 Cats Blog Carnival. Pisoo and I have learnt a lot of useful things since we have the pleasure of hosting this feline carnival on our blogs. This edition brings us more useful tips to keep us informed and our dear kitties happy and shining. Let’s see:

Vera Lang presents How To Give A Cat A Bath posted at Fine Pet Care .com, saying,

“Yes, cats are clean animals, but there are occasions that bathing them is needed. Giving your cat a bath, well, it’s not easy. I was clueless when I did it for the first time. I hope that this article will be of help when you need to wash your cat.”

Ha, ha! I’ve tried to wash Pisoo only once and I bet my neighbors still remember that day. And if you look at this photo (sorry for not giving credits, but I got the photo in my email and I wanted to show it to you. If you are the author, drop me a message and I’ll credit your work), you’ll see what I mean

Raymond presents Buy Pet Food In Bulk Online To Save Money posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “Applicable to cats too ”

Raymond is right, using his advice you’ll save some money. Provided that you have some available space to store those supplies.

Dan-O presents Adorable Cat Web Tools to Show Off Your Love for Kitty posted at Danogo.com – Discover. Inspiring . Media, saying,

“A round up of some adorable cat Web resources to express your love for cats and get the latest tips and advice online.”

Those cat screen savers surely are cute! And they are free.

Greg Laden presents Greg Laden’s Blog : Friday Peer Reviewed Cat Blogging posted at Greg Laden’s Blog.

This is a very interesting study on cat genetics. I bet you didn’t guess that Russian Blues and Norwegian Forest cats are on the same branch of the evolution tree.

January Cat presents Toby Takes a Dive posted at Karnak Street Kats.

If you’re a cat, then you shouldn’t jump without keeping your eyes wide open.

TherapyDoc presents The Heart Has Its Reasons posted at Everyone Needs Therapy, saying,

“In the end, it’s the pets that lose out.”

This is so true. Besides, there’s no therapy for pets.

Cher presents The Cat Lady Test posted at OnlyintheApple.

Please take the test and see if you qualify for the Cat Lady title.

Anna Farmery presents Pets are a wonderful source of love posted at Widows Quest.

This surely is true. However, when it comes to cats, I cannot help myself noticing that my Pisoo loves the fridge and the cupboard as much as she loves me

Spencer Jones presents Pets and Colloidal Silver posted at Colloidal Silver Secrets, saying,

“Cats love colloidal silver. They seem to have an innate sense that it is good for them. If you cat is sick, and you set a bowl containing colloidal right next to its water bowl, it will choose the colloidal silver every time.”

Strange, I didn’t know that.

Karen Dowell presents The Wiggly Wigglers podcast revisited: Sir Roy Strong posted at Wiggly Wigglers, saying,

“Whilst not strictly about cats, there is a brilliant comment from Sir Roy Strong about cats which I couldn’t resist putting in.”

Yes, and that’s exactly the only reason we decided to include the article in our cats carnival.

Edith presents How Do You Make Them Feel? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

This video is really thoughtful. How you make your customers feel can make the difference.

That concludes this edition of 1001 Cats Blog Carnival. Many thanks to all our authors for their contribution.

If you want to see your story featured here too, you are invited to submit your blog article to the next edition of 1001 cats using our carnival submission form.

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It’s carnival time again, so help yourself to the amusing, interesting, purrring stories which make our hearts tick a bit faster.

These are our today’s articles:

Mark presents Weird Cat Behavior Homepage posted at All About Cats Blog, saying, “Comment on posted stories or add your own story and pictures of your cats odd behavior. A simple form below makes it fun and easy to submit your story and pictures. Cats can do some funny things and you may find that some of these funny cat behaviors may become a regular habit. Cats are very routine based. Once they latch onto an activity they enjoy they will practice it often.”

Susan Daffron presents The Offended Sniff posted at Logical Expressions Blog. Next time your cat sniffs, you’ll be one step closer to decipher its meaning.

Joana presents Dinner Time with Isis: A Fairytale posted at Nanashi-Inc.net. It is crazy how these humans take photos of their kitties in the most inappropriate moments, only to make a lot of fun afterwards.

Karen Shanley presents Will You Pulleeease Get Off the Computer posted at Karen Shanley. It looks like Finnegan the Cat knows how to push his master’s buttons in his own advantage.

Last, but not least, my good friend at Cendre De Roses has new kittens. They are adorable!

That concludes this edition. If yopu want to be part of the next edition, please submit your blog article to the 1001 Cats Carnival using our carnival submission form.

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Are you living in UK? Pet Insurance provides coverage for medical expenses for your pets. You could purchase pet insurance from an insurance company or directly from a veterinarian. Since medical care can be very expensive in the event of an accident or illness, pet insurance can be a beneficial and necessary provision. Typically, worldwide, as well as in UK, pet insurance covers animals like dogs and cats. Some companies also offer coverage for other types of pets including some exotic species or even rabbits, turtles, tortoises, lizards, birds, or even pet fish.

Risks Covered By Pet Insurance

The risks covered by worldwide or UK pet insurance include accident related injuries along with illness care. Pet insurance policies offer various levels of coverage depending on the cost. The deductible amounts of the bill to be paid by the pet insurance differ according to the coverage you choose. There are several affordable pet insurance plans available in the market today. While basic coverage starts at $10 to $15 a month, higher cost plans are also available for a wider coverage. The insurance policy typically covers pets of a young age; they may not cover pets of they are older than a specified age or if they do, the costs can be significantly higher. This is normal, if we think that with age come many diseases, and this happens to humans as well as to pets. Old animals just have a bigger probability to get sick. And like no insurance company would accept and 80 years old client in the life insurance system, no pet insurance company in UK or in any other country would accept an old pet to benefit from its services.

How To Choose Pet Insurance

The policy and plan description will tell you how and where to make the claim for your pet. Veterinarians provide identification and pet insurance companies maintain databases to help prevent false claims as well as to ensure that the pet insured under the policy is the same one being treated. Some insurance companies that insure pets have discounts for insuring more than one pet and offer affordable plans, so you can be sure that in case your little animal, your cute puppy or tiny kitten has an accident, you’d get the medical care and the drugs covered by your contract. Before making a choice you always have to compare different plans from many companies and see which one fits best your needs.

If you live in UK, pet insurance shouldn’t be a problem for you.

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Welcome to the January 21, 2008 edition of 1001 cats.

Holidays are over, but we still have left a bunch of nice memories and some grrreat photos of our little furry friends (or children?). Kitties biting dogs, attacking masters, going to the vet, teaching us beauty tips, or even playing the piano, you’ll meet all these and even more in our today’s blog carnival.

Please meet our heroes:

Mitch McDonald presents Litter Box Training Through Experience And Patience posted at FYI About.com.

GrrlScientist presents When Housecats Attack posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “This is a scary streaming video of a sweet little housecat who suddenly attacks its owner.” Scary like hell! I’m still terrified.

Susan Daffron presents Many Splatters and a Big Nose posted at Logical Expressions Blog.

Lucynda Riley presents Yucca Leaf posted at Flower, Field, and Forest.

GrrlScientist presents Met Nora: The Piano Playing Cat posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “Nora is a cat who lives with a piano teacher, and she also loves to play the piano, as you will see in the video. Nora’s solo is later followed in the video by a duet with a piano student.”

Jennifer Schermerhorn presents Shhh… posted at A Whirled Yarn.

Mrs Hicks presents Week 1 2008 posted at The Life and Times of Mrs Hicks.

Tony Josephson presents You can observe a lot just by watching.: Kitty Treats, Doha Style posted at You can observe a lot just by watching., saying, “Expatriate Cats from the Middle East (Doha, Qatar)”

Ferdinand T. Cat presents Contract Problems posted at Conservative Cat.

Susan Daffron presents Cat Owners Are Not Surprised posted at Logical Expressions Blog.

Jeni presents Beauty Tips From Lolcats posted at Savvy Skin: Anti-aging Skincare secrets to fabulous, smooth, glowing skin! Skin care, Botox, acne and wrinkle prevention tips.

Joana presents Isis and Denali: Back from the Vet posted at Nanashi-Inc.net.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of 1001 cats using our carnival submission form.

Many thanks to all authors and to their lovely cats.

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Happy New Year to everybody! Here’s the first 2008 edition of 1001 Cats Blog Carnival. Scheduled for mid-December, delayed by my unexpected and long vacation, but finally published today, together with my thanks to all authors and with my excuses for making them wait so long.

Julie presents My kitteh is skeered of blow dryers, part 2 posted at Velvet-Rose.net. The video is quite funny. It must be genetic: all cats fear blow driers and vacuum cleaners.

Mitch McDonald presents Does My Cat Have Ear Mites? posted at FYI About.com. A simple way to check that out.

Sidhusaaheb presents Southwards bound: The Chosen One posted at I, Me, Myself. If you didn’t know, yes, kitties can smell a friend at once.

GrrlScientist presents MeowMeowMeow: What Are These Two Cats Saying? posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “What do cats talk about when humans aren’t around? This amusing streaming video of two chatty cats includes a translation for the cat-imapired.”

Karen Shanley presents There’s a Whole Big World Out There, Kid posted at Karen Shanley. And what do you think Finn does when he gets his moment of freedom? He wonders where to go first, and he ends up inside again! Big world, full of bad guys, I know.

Lucynda Riley presents three articles, all posted at The Crazy Cat Woman: Bengal for Adoption , Interesting cat facts, and Big Black Cat up for Adoption. Did you know that there are more that 300 Bengal cats for adoption right now? If you don’t have $2000 to pay for such a beauty, you could consider adopting one.

200motels presents The Ballad of Frankie Lee posted at 200motels.net, saying, “A Cat and Dog in Hurricane Katrina (Poem)”

Joana presents Isis’ New Sweater posted at Nanashi-Inc.net. I’m sure Isis feels grrreat, you can see that in her eyes. Good job, Joana!

This is all for this edition. The carnival will go on in 2008, after the unexpected break we had in December. We promise to be on time from now on. Please submit your blog article to the next edition of 1001 cats using our carnival submission form.

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Welcome to a new edition of 1001 Cats Blog Carnival. As Christmas is almost here, our mind is full of presents ideas, hose decorations, fireworks or vacations, but in all this rush, we still fond time to play with our littly fury friends, to listen to their stories, and to tell them further for the fun and amusement of other proud cat owners (or slaves?).

These are the stories in our today’s carnival:

Madeleine Begun Kane presents First (And Last) Visit posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. This is an excellent limmerick based on life facts, so take care if you like cats!

GrrlScientist presents Cat Does Dog Tricks posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “This is a streaming video showing the amazing Kizzy, an eight-year-old bengal cat that does tricks as well as any dog does.” Good kitty, and even better trainer!

Greg Laden presents Greg Laden’s Blog : Wednesday Cat Blogging: King Cheetah posted at Greg Laden’s Blog. Cool cat! I wouldn’t dare to play the games I play with my kitty.

Joana presents It’s Denali vs Isis – Who Will Win? posted at Nanashi-Inc.net. This is an example of how two otherwise lovely cats can drive their master crazy.

WereBear presents the way of cats: Cat Poker posted at the way of cats, saying, “Thanks for the opportunity.” We thank WereBear for the great article about cats’ love and humans’ behavior. I can confirm that my kitty is testing our love from time to time.

At Home Life Weekly you can learn How To Make Flea Powder, and you’ll realize it is not that hard, and all ingredients are available at herbal shops.

Lucynda Riley presents A guidline for Cats posted at The Crazy Cat Woman. If you still don’t believe in Bed Mice, believe your cat: they exist and they have to be attacked with all strength and dedication. I’m so glad my kitty cannot read!

Many thanks to all authors who dedicated their time to write and submit their stories to the 1001 Cats carnival. Many thanks in advance to our readers for their comments on the articles. If you want to participate with your stories, please submit your blog article to the next edition of 1001 cats using our carnival submission form.

Thank you!

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Welcome, all cat lovers.

This is the new home of our 1001 Cats Carnival, which has been going on since this spring. We want to thank all our past and present authors, and to let them know that we are going to continue the tradition started on All Tips And Tricks here, on this blog dedicated entirely to cats.

Today’s edition proudly introduces to you the following:

Chris presents Intruder Alert in the Yard – Man the Deck Guns! | nomad4ever posted at nomad4ever.

John + Pat presents Thursday Thirteen #3: Nicky’s 7th birthday edition posted at It’s all Good..

GrrlScientist presents Cat Does Dog Tricks posted at Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted).

Greg Laden presents Greg Laden’s Blog : Wednesday Cat Blogging: King Cheetah posted at Greg Laden’s Blog.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents First (And Last) Visit posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
That was not a very long edition, but this doesn’t make it less interesting, so please enjoy the articles and feel free to leave your comments for the authors.

Do you know cat stories? Do you have some cat owner advice? You are welcome to submit your blog article to the next edition of 1001 cats using our carnival submission form.

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