The Tiniest Tiger Prepares to Walk the Red Carpet
January 27, 2012 | Author Gracey
The Tiniest Tiger community’s motto is Small Paws United Can Make a Big Difference! Over the last couple of years since we began with our The Tiniest Tiger Facebook page we have grown to over 24,000 strong and have generated over $30,000 to help both our big and small cat cousins in need.
When I was in my thinking circle a few months ago, I started to dream about a way to help more of our cousins. I didn’t want to keep asking you for donations because you have all been super generous. I wanted to reach outside
When you are on the right path, the pieces start to fall into place. Have you ever noticed this? I batted the idea in the direction of making a super fun, yet classy line of handbags with a feline finesse. We wanted to have the bags made in the United States, and if it could be close to my habitat, even better, because you know I am not so fond of traveling in my carrier.
Announcing the #RedCarpetCat Twitter Party!
January 24, 2012 | Author Gracey
A Special Message from our Friends at Event Barkers!
We are super, super excited to announce a new Twitter party that we, as part of Event Barkers, are hosting! On February 24, we’ll be hosting the #RedCarpetCat Twitter party coming to you LIVE from Hollywood!!
Everyone in the cat world knows Gracey, The Tiniest Tiger from her Conservation Cub Club; Gracey will take to the red carpet for a special event leading up to the Oscars. Gracey will be giving out her brand-new The Tiniest Tiger Hipster bag filled with goodies from sponsors to pet-loving A-list celebrities.
To celebrate The Tiniest Tiger Hipster Bag’s debut on the red carpet, we’re hosting a special Twitter party! You can mingle with the stars as Gracey tweets photos of herself on the red carpet and you’ll be eligible to win prizes in giveaways every 10 minutes!
Also on the party will be Jackson Galaxy, the Cat Daddy himself! The star of Animal Planet’s “My Cat From Hell” will be live tweeting along with Gracey during the party!
Are you ready to party and walk the red carpet? RSVP in the linky below with your Twitter handle. (Don’t have a Twitter account yet? It’s quick and easy to sign up for one at Twitter.com and you’ll be all set for the big night!)
Stay tuned for special giveaways leading up to the party and Hollywood swag every 10 minutes during the party itself. Step one, though is to RSVP below.
How to RSVP
Using the linky below, you’ll want to leave your Twitter handle. (Don’t have a Twitter account yet? It’s fun–and free–to join Twitter; just pop over to http://twitter.com to get your account then return here and sign up. We’ll have some instructional posts before the party so you’ll be able to hop right in and enjoy the fun!)
Just click on “Click here to enter” at the bottom of this post (or click here); a new screen will open for your RSVP. Here’s an example:
In the field that says “Link Title or Blog Title,” just enter your Twitter handle. (In the example above, you’ll see I’ve added “dogtipper” on this line.) The next line that says “Link” is where you’ll put the link to your Twitter account (I’ve added “http://twitter.com/dogtipper”.) You can add your email address and name if you like; it’s not mandatory but it will give us a way to notify you if you win other than via Twitter. Hit “Enter your link” and you’re done…and you’ve successfully sent us your RSVP and entered to win!
Click the link below to RSVP
Posted in Conservation Cub Club, Gracey's Blog, Product Giveaways | 
Tags: #RedCarpetCat, Event Barkers, Jackson Galaxy, The Tiniest Tiger, twitter | 
4 Comments »
Cat Art Exhibit. Welcome to The Tiniest Tiger’s Gallery
January 21, 2012 | Author Gracey
Welcome Friends to my first art exhibit.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
After I displayed my first painting, A Cat Artist’s Interpretation of an Amur Tiger, that I created using my iPad and the Paint for Cats app by Hiccup, I could not believe the outpouring of support for my art.
I truly appreciate your kind words so I thought I would try to paint some more of the things that inspire me. This required a lot of thinking time and play time with my TipsyNip Tickle Pickle.
It took me quite some time to find the right color combinations to convey my interpretation of what inspired me and to then get the paint on the canvas. I sure hope you like my paintings too.
Welcome to The Tiniest Tiger’s Gallery!
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Gracey's Blog | Tags: Cat Artist, catnip, iPad, Jaguar, Lions, Night Hunt, Paint For Cats by Hiccup, Pink Nose and Toes, The Tiniest Tiger, TipsyNip Tickle Pickle, Water! | 44 Comments »
Mr. Chewy Review and $25 Giveaway for Pet Food and Supplies
January 14, 2012 | Author Gracey
Congratulations to Abbi the winner of the MrChewy.com $25 Giveaway!
Mr. Chewy ‘s tag line is Delivering Pet Happiness and I can tell you that our experience with Mr. Chewy’s did in fact, deliver pet happiness to me, Gracey, The Tiniest Tiger and my parents. We were contacted by Mr. Chewy to try out their online pet food and supplies delivery service. I couldn’t believe my luck when I read the email because you know that I get a little worried when my chow bowl gets low. I feel the most relaxed when the cupboard is full of my food. Mr. Chewy made it so easy to order that I was able to place my order without opposable thumbs!
The Mr. Chewy site is super user friendly, I mean even a dog could navigate through from first to last click. (No offense to my canine compadres) You will find over 70 popular brands of cat and dog food, treats and supplies. You might find the prices to be less than in your retail store too. And, the pet food that you order is delivered right to your door for FREE when you place an order for $49 or more. If your order is under $49 your order ships for only $4.95! That is less than it costs to send the parents out in the vehicles with a fancy “thinking beverage” to hunt in the retail jungle. The delivery right to your door is super terrific because the bag of chow and the cans of food I ordered weighed more than me!
You can also set up your own delivery schedule to make sure that you never run out of food. There are no worries with the delivery schedule because you can make changes or cancel anytime. This is super appealing to me knowing that my chow bowl replenishment inventory will always arrive before my back up chow jar is even half empty. Super Hurrah!
Iams Home 4 the Holidays Finds Homes for 1.2 Million Pets
January 13, 2012 | Author Gracey
The results are in for the Iams Home 4 the Holidays Campaign and over 1.2 million animals were adopted during the 2011 campaign. That is an average of 9 adoptions per minute! The Iams Home 4 the Holidays is one of the
world’s largest adoption programs and this year when the results were tallied there were 1,267,541 animals adopted in 95 days. The campaign began 13 years ago, and in that time , founding partner Helen Woodward Animal Center, along with more than 4,000 animal organizations from around the world have helped a total of 7,034,989 pets find their forever homes.
“In just three months, we’ve saved the lives of more than 1.2 million animals and have given them a second chance at life and love,” said Mike Arms, founder of the adoption drive and president of Helen Woodward Animal Center. “Not only is this a huge victory for these pets, but for the thousands of people working in animal organizations around the world who have dedicated their lives to helping end pet homelessness.”
The Bags 4 Bowls program also met its goal to donate 5 million meals to pets in need!
The Tiniest Tiger Community rallied to help “paw it forward” by participating in the Bags 4 Bowls program by uploading photos of pets and leaving comments that totaled up to providing 47,024 Meals to feed our cousins in need. I am super proud that our community rallied together to increase our Meals by 32% over the 2010 campaign when we generated 32,375!
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart that you took the time to comment and upload photos to help feed our cousins in need. We have the best caring cat community in the world.
Cats The Good, The Sad and the Changeable
January 13, 2012 | Author Gracey
Cats! The Good, The Sad and the Changeable.
It is no secret that there is an overpopulation problem for cats and dogs. In fact, the numbers are staggering when you stop and analyze them. Found Animals Foundation recently developed The Pet Overpopulation Challenge infographic that you see above.
The Good!
It probably comes as no surprise to you, my fellow feline friends, that cats are #1! There are 93 million cat owners and 77 million dog owners. So that means that 55% of all pet owners are living with cats! And, 56% of those cat owners are sharing their habitats with more than one cat! It is super terrific that so many cats are enjoying the good life in forever homes. Our prestige is being noticed by marketers too as there are many new feline fabulous products becoming available on the market. The pet parent’s love for their pets helped The Pet Industry remain strong over the last few years even when other parts of the economy were taking a bit of a nap. This is good for those cats in loving homes but what about our homeless cousins? We cats rule but we must take this responsibility serious. We can’t just play fetch and chomp bones all day. No offense to my dog friends.
We fastidious felines must do our part to help others in need.
The Sad!
Posted in Gracey's Blog | Tags: cats, euthanasia, feral cats, Found Animals Foundation, pet adoption, pet care, pet identification, Pet spay and neuter | 6 Comments »
Cat Artist’s Interpretation of an Amur Tiger
January 10, 2012 | Author Gracey
Today, I needed to unleash some of my pent up energy after soaking up a lot of sunshine on my Cat Power Tower. I decided to spend a little time on my iPad. I started off playing Chase the Butterfly but soon grew tired. I thought I would rather use some of my creative energy painting. Here is a brief video of my creative process.
As you saw in the video, I began to imagine a beautiful and mighty Amur Tiger walking through a Korean Pine Forest of the Russian Far East. My creative energy took over and before I knew it, I had created, if I do say so myself, an accurate portrayal of the of the light, colors and imagery of a Tiger in the Taiga.
Here is my inspiration:
Posted in Gracey's Blog, Triple T Studios Video | Tags: Amur Tiger, Cat Artist, Gracey, The Tiniest Tiger | 20 Comments »
Cat Menu Leaves No Room for Dessert or a Side of Mushrooms
January 9, 2012 | Author Gracey
Cats (Felis silvestris catus), are part of the family Felidae in the order Carnivora, and that makes us obligate carnivores. This is a known and accepted scientific fact. Even so, some humans like to argue about the cat’s obligate carnivore status. When these discussions start I can’t help but yawn and curl up for a nap.
Cats are unique!
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander works because they are the same species. What’s good for the human and perhaps even for the dog is not always good for the cat. We cats are unique! The feline’s sense of taste is distinguished by a lack of attraction to compounds that taste sweet to humans, such as sugars and high-intensity sweeteners. This is the opposite of the attraction for sweets shown by most omnivores and herbivores and even some other carnivores such as the dog*.
Here is why:
The indifference that cats display toward sweet-tasting compounds contrasts with their
otherwise normal taste behavior toward stimuli of other taste modalities. For example, cats show
preference for selected amino acids and generally avoid stimuli that to humans taste either bitter or very sour. Congruent with these behavioral responses to taste stimuli, recordings from cat taste nerve fibers, and from units of the geniculate ganglion innervating taste cells, demonstrate responses to salty, sour and bitter stimuli as well as to amino acids and nucleotides, but do not show neural responses to sucrose and several other sugars. The senses of taste in the cat, in general, is therefore similar to that of other mammals, with the exception of an inability to taste sweet stimuli (Xia Li,2005)
Posted in Cat Health, Feline Nutrition, Gracey's Blog | Tags: amino acids, cats, mushrooms, obligate carnivores, protein, sweets, umami | 23 Comments »
Tigers on Top of the World
January 8, 2012 | Author Gracey
There are tigers living on top of the world and this is terrific news. Wild tiger populations are dwindling and there
This image is courtesy of "Spirit of the Himalayas" from the book Eye of the Tiger
has not been much good news to report about any of the remaining 5 subspecies of tigers that share our world, but recently a “lost” population of tigers has been filmed living at a higher altitude in the Himalayas than was previously thought that tigers could survive.
Tigers have been known to live in the Himalayan foothills of Bhutan, but when Bhutanese villagers reported that tigers were living as high as 13,000 ft (4000 m), Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, the President of Panthera, decided to investigate. Dr. Rabinowitz, along with BBC Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travelled to Bhutan in search of the mountain tigers. After treking up the mountain, Buchanan set up a series of camera traps that would capture any animal that passed by. The Panthera team left camera traps as high as 4100 meters, a level where trees begin to struggle for survival.
Three months later, Gordon returned to his camera traps to see what animals had passed by. Incredibly, the cameras shot footage of two wild tigers, one male and one female. These images are the first known footage of tigers in the remote mountains of Bhutan and the first concrete evidence that tigers are capable of living at that altitude. This is the only place on earth known to have tigers, leopards and snow leopards all sharing the same valley.
Posted in Gracey's Blog, Our Big Cat Cousins, Tigers | Tags: Bhutan, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, Gordon Buchanan, Himalayas, Panthera, The Tiger Corridor Initiative, tiger corridors, Tigers | 4 Comments »
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