Category: Cats Around The World
Ohio’s Lucky Cat Museum features iconic Maneki-Neko cats
Ohio’s Lucky Cat Museum features the iconic Maneki-Neko cats. And if you love cats, you must visit this museum. Micha Robertson’s Ohio Luck Cat Museum houses more than 2,000 varieties of the iconic Maneki-Neko or “beckoning cat, a symbol you’ll often see in Asian restaurants as a symbol of luck and prosperity. The Ohio Lucky…
Poland’s Cat Museum ideal for cat lovers
Poland’s Cat Museum is ideal for cat lovers, showcasing our fascination with cats. It now joins the ever-growing number of cat tourism and events around the world. The Cat Museum, located in Krakow, Poland, is different from many museums for cat lovers as it is not about cat history or ownership. Rather it is a…
Virtual Museum Tours for Cat Lovers
Did you know there are a host of virtual museum tours for cat lovers? Museums around the world offer a wide selection of cat paintings and artifacts that might not be so easy to find when you’re trying to squeeze everything on vacation. While it would be quite impossible for most to visit Paris, Budapest,…
Let’s dismiss superstitions & folklore giving black cats a bad rap
Let’s dismiss the superstitions & folklore giving black cats a bad rap. On Black Cat Appreciation Day (Aug. 17) we want to debunk the myths and celebrate how absolutely stunning they are. They make wonderful pets, but superstitions still prevail. Black cats tend to be the last to get adopted at shelters. Black cats also…
Cat tourism on the rise and that’s why we are writing about it
Why write about cat tourism? The answer is simple: felines are front and center at hotels, museums, theme parks, coastal resorts, cat cafés, temples, islands, train-stations, cat shows, and more. People flock to these places to get their cat fix (big dose of cat) when they are on vacation because they are intrigued by these…
CatCon Worldwide is the biggest cat-centric, pop culture event in the world
CatCon Worldwide is the biggest cat-centric, pop culture event in the world, and the fourth annual event, set for Aug. 4 and 5, in Pasadena, CA promises to the biggest yet. Want to meet the biggest of the biggest Instagram Cat Superstars Lil BUB, Ian Somerhalder, Cats of Instagram and Pudge, and Moshow the Cat…
Best Selling Author Gwen Cooper tells how cat tourism & events helps cats
Best Selling Author Gwen Cooper tells how cat tourism & events helps cats in a question and answer interview about her appearances at London’s first ever CatFest and the outrageously popular CatCon Worldwide. As Paws for Reflection is in the process of rebranding with a huge focus on cat events and cat tourism, we were…
How many cats can come about from one cat? Take pause before throwing out the numbers
How many cats can come about from one cat in 7 years? Can it really be 420,000 kittens? The numbers are exponential, but one needs to take pause when throwing out these numbers because they may not be valid. While it’s important to shock people into understanding how explosive pet overpopulation is, it’s also a…
The Dalai Lama’s Cat teaches us living in the moment makes us happy
The Dalai Lama’s Cat teaches us living in the moment makes us happy. Living in the moment is what cats do. It’s also a fundamental principles of Buddhism. And if anyone has ever gone through therapy, it’s also a manta of how to shed ourselves of our demons and become happier people.Living in the moment,…
Kitty has the whole world in his paws on Earth Day
Kitty has the whole world in his paws on Earth Day Kitty has the whole world in his paws on Earth Day. This post is a bit of a parody on a famous religious song, ‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’, a song, the Paws’ family remembers from Sunday School, and more recently,…
