You didn’t know about the Fabulous City the Kitty book?
City the Kitty is ginger muse to Lori Shepler, who is a professional photographer. Lori’s superb pictures of City have gained him a huge Instagram following and made him a social media star.
Meet our City the Kitty Book Sponsor
A huge thank you to our sponsor Erin, from Erin the Cat Princess blog, we have a ‘pawtographed’ copy of this totally gorgeous cat lover’s book to give away and a special postcard with a City pawprint! Erin is a 2016 BlogPaws® Nose to Nose finalist, and fine cat blogger.
As well as ginger polydactyl good looks, City stands, with his mom Lori, in the front line of the fight to ban declawing in the USA, inspired by Jennifer Conrad, DVM – Founder and Director of The Paw Project. We stand with City in his fight against declawing.
What is Declawing?
From the Humane Society of the United States:
“People often mistakenly believe that declawing their cats is a harmless “quick fix” for unwanted scratching. They don’t realize that declawing can make a cat less likely to use the litter box or more likely to bite. Declawing also can cause lasting physical problems for your cat.”
“Medical drawbacks to declawing include pain in the paw, infection, tissue necrosis (tissue death), lameness, and back pain. Removing claws changes the way a cat’s foot meets the ground and can cause pain similar to wearing an uncomfortable pair of shoes. There can also be a regrowth of improperly removed claws, nerve damage, and bone spurs.”
Read the full article here.
What is City the Kitty’s Story?
Things were at a crossroads in her life when Lori encountered City. When he finished turning her world upside down Lori was facing another direction, with City taking over social media and jumping paws and claws first into the declawing debate (graphic warning).
“Claws are part of what makes me so HANDsome”
City and his mum wanted to give something back to the supporters who have helped them, and who have made declawing a national issue in the USA.
So they created this wonderful book packed with stunning images of the polydactyl rock star who will charm you with his looks, his amazing agility. [You can also buy a copy of City’s book here.] City can also be found on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.
With the news that Denver has banned declawing, the huge amount of work that City and his photographer Mom are doing is beginning to take hold so, please, join us and support City.
The giveaway was available to all our friend WORLDWIDE. As a thank you for the support and warmth we get every week from our wonderful readers and supporters. It is now closed.
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Seville at Nerissa's Life says
Oh. My. Mouses. I WON! Big purrs to all of you at the Dash Kitten Blog for hostin’ such a great giveaway and big purrs to my pal Erin (she’s a princess, you know) for sponsoring such a great prize! PURRS.
Purrs,
Seville
Judy Erickson says
My 3 kitties and I would love to have City the Kitty’s book for the holidays! Kudos to the great work to ban declawing. I have put a scratching post everywhere in the house to make scratching and stretching easy for them.
Shoko Neilson says
ERin the Cat Princess has de eloped a book that we must read. This is a great cause.
Shoko and Kali
Seville at Nerissa's Life says
Oh my mouses! JUST LOOK AT THOSE PAWS! Gorgeous. What a lovely book from Erin.
Purrs,
Seville
Malaika Fernandes says
Erin is such a gorgeous tuxedo cat and what a lovely give away
Tenacious Little Terrier says
What a lovely book. City has such vivid eyes!
Cathy Armato says
What a lovely Christmas gift this would make for a cat lover! Declawing is such a huge issue, I’m glad there are a few products that can help like Soft Paws, and ways you can try to minimize clawing like having multiple scratching posts.
Love & Biscuits,
Dogs Luv Us and We Luv Them
Hairballs and Hissyfits says
Amarula loves books! And she is definitely against declawing! What else are you supposed to use to keep your human in line!??
Ruth Epstein says
I love book giveaways, it looks great and must come back later to enter 🙂
Annabelle says
We love City the Kitty!
Nichole says
What a great giveaway – looks like a cool book!
Tonya Wilhelm says
City the Kitty, what a very cute name. I so love that photo too.
Amber Ketchum says
I love the Paw Project! I’m so happy for City and I’m so glad that folks like you are working to spread the word about declawing!
The Daily Pip says
Seeing your video yesterday really sparked my interest in this book and I would love to read it!
Annette says
A great giveaway for CatLovers just in time for Christmas! City the Kitty supports #PawProject as do we. We are sharing to Pinterest, Twitter & Facebook 😉
Sweet Purrfections says
We’d love to win this. Good luck on your giveaway.
Cathy Keisha says
I’d love to win. City is sure handsome.
Three Chatty Cats says
City the Kitty and Lori do awesome work! Thank you for bringing attention to them and hosting this awesome giveaway.
mariodacat says
What a nice give away. Thanks for hosting it. We did enter.
Edie says
What a great giveaway. Good luck to everyone.
Tiny Pearl Cat says
Nice to see she is working on banning declawing. People have no idea, and should all have to help in the vet operation room with the procedure just to see how sick it is.
MR. Puddy says
Look like a cool book !
I just wanna check who is most handsome in da world..tee..heh
Lola The Rescued Cat says
We’ve been following City for a while now. What a great giveaway.
Dz Dogs says
Very cool! We hadn’t heard of City and Lori but would love for a chance to read this book! We too agree that kitties should keep their claws!
DONNA m musche says
My kitties and i love City!The book sounds great im going to get it soon i hope!What a great message it delivers.
The Island Cats says
We think City is pawsome! What a great book!
The Swiss Cats says
What a pawsome giveaway ! City looks like a very special cat, and so does his mom ! Purrs
LilyLuWhoT says
City is a pawsome anipal to work so hard to make hoomans aware of how horrible declawing is! *high paw* Thanks for this wonderful opportunity to win his book! ((HUGS))
jmuhj says
Longtime fans of City and his work on behalf of cats everywhere. We were created with CLAWS for very good reasons, and our servant provides scratchers and cat furniture THROUGHOUT our domain for that very purpose, as well as grooming services, however unwanted, with special cat-friendly claw clippers. 😉
Summer says
We love City! Good luck to everyone entering!
Katie Kat and Lil Bear says
Dis am Pawsome Giveaway. Lori and City am amazing. We loves all the do to stop declawing kitties.
Thanks Dash Kitten Crew fur helping with this giveaway!
-Lil Bear who likes hims claws just the way they am…
Brian says
City is a sweet one and the Mom is super special!
Erin the Cat Princess says
This is a wonderful book, and City is a Wonderful Cat bringing a very important message to the Cat world, to bring about a much needed change. That really rocks in our book! purrs ERin
mommakatandherbearcat says
We love City and Lori! They work so tirelessly to ban declawing and were so open to sharing my story of Kitty and my interactions with the AAHA about declawing. Of course, we love Erin and her human too … we’re fortunate to call them good friends who always make our day … hmmm … EXACTLY like the Dash Kitten crew!