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“Well, she’s the one who taught us about patience. I grew up with cats that were very easy to hold and pick up, and that had been my older son’s early experience with our cats, so honestly it was hard. But it gave us a great set of lessons to learn by having a special cat. You learn the different ways to treat an animal, and that every one animal is different, just like every person is different.”

—Mayim Bialik, on time spent with her adopted cat Frances. In an interview with Mashable, Bialik discusses the cats in her life and spending time at CatCon, an event sponsored by PetSmart Charities, as a way to promote adoption of felines.

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Jackson Galaxy, host from My Cat from Hell, interviewed with Wayne Pacelle, President of the the Humane Society of the United States, during its Animal Care Expo

Jackson’s job is to tame the most shrewdest of felines on the Animal Planet series. He goes into homes that some humans wouldn’t dare go near because of the unruly and sometimes vicious cats that live inside.

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Carrie Ann Inaba has always had a fondness for cats.

She shares this with the Humane Society of the United States in its May/June 2013 issue of All Animals Magazine.

Her first cat was a stray she picked up while working as a dancer on In Living Color in the nineties.

Years later she’s invited two more cats into her home and has co-created and hosted a web series on finding homes for special needs cats.

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The Office‘s Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer admit they both own pretty vocal cats.

“I’ve never had a cat who meows and chatters as much as he does,” Fischer told PEOPLEPets.com at the La Femme International Film Festival Celebrity Gala. “He’s a very vocal cat.”

Kinsey, whose character on the show is an eccentric cat owning woman, says her cat, Otter, sounds like he is always on the prowl for a female. “He’s chatty, but it kind of scares me,” she said. “It sounds like maybe a cat in heat. That’s just him [being] happy.”

Any cat owner knows felines have a way of communicating with humans, but is it actual language they’re getting across or mere vocal utterances? Regardless of the answer to that question, a graduate student at Cornell University found domesticated cat noises seem to be successful in one area in particular–getting the human to respond as needed.

In a study described as one where “no cats were harmed in the experiment, although a few human eardrums were stretched,” Nicholas Nicastro compiled dozens of vocal samples from cats and played them for human volunteers who were asked to rate them for pleasantness and appeal and examined what acoustic features accompanied each sound.

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The recent ad in the Chicago Tribune featuring Bea Arthur urging McDonald’s to adopt more humane slaughter practices is just one of the ways the famous Golden Girls stood up for animal rights.

Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan had all recorded a commercial for an anti-fur ad in the past and White is an outspoken proponent of animals in shelters.

You may not have known about McClanahan’s involvement with a stray cat charity, Alley Cat Allies, as the actress partnered with the group to raise awareness for feral cats and Trap-Neuter-Return programs, according to the LA Times.

“Cats have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a little girl in Oklahoma,” McClanahan said of her work on behalf of Alley Cat Allies. “In fact, my most recent cat, Kate, was a stray that just showed up at my back door in Manhattan, walked right in and has been in charge ever since.”

To learn more about the work of Alley Cat Allies, visit the group’s website.

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Hide the mouse from the cat.

Hulu has a pet channel, an all in one stop on the Internet for every good animal show, from Dog Town and Cesar Millan‘s Dog Whisperer to movies like The Lost Stallion to the clay animation of Wallace and Gramit.

It’s the Animal Planet of the Internet.

Like other Hulu shows, some of the episodes, clips and movies are more recent than others.

The clip below, from the Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet, is about a woman who owns a natural pet foods store (ran with the assistance of her two Saint Bernards?).

Other clips from the channel feature the stories of dogs rescued in Iraq.

A recent article from a Northwestern University blog featured green pet ideas, from food to cleaning supplies.

Vegetarian and vegan pet food exists for both cats and dogs, but regardless if you choose to make your pet go veg, it’s always best to feed your animal food that is natural, organic and contains the fewest processed ingredients, according to Kelsie Dolezal, a certified veterinary technician at The Chicago Center for Veterinary Medicine, adding that it’s not difficult to “make your own.”

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