Really Juicy Secrets of Clamming on the Oregon Coast

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06/11/08

Really Juicy Secrets of Clamming on the Oregon Coast

Razor clam (photo courtesy Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)(Oregon Coast) - So the bug to go clamming has bitten you. And for good reason. The Oregon coast is a hotbed of clam beds in many places.

There's plenty of information out there to help you out, especially if you talk to some of the really in-the-know locals. But first, you may want to delve into the basics. Initially, you'd want to head to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Web site.

Where can you go clamming on the coast? The State says: “All areas are open except Marine Gardens, Research Reserves, Habitat Refuges, and Shellfish Preserves. These areas have signs indicating their locations and are listed and mapped in the Sport Fishing Regulations book.”

It is important to check the state’s website before you go, to make sure a ban isn’t in place because of toxic clams. This happens periodically. In fact, clamming was banned for a few years on the north coast because of toxins in the clams.

Clams are plentiful in some areas, and not so plentiful in others.

The ODFW's website says: "Razor clams (Silqua patula) are found throughout Oregon’s ocean beaches. Clatsop beaches (Columbia River to Seaside) have the most stable populations because of beach stability. 95 percent of Oregon's razor clam digging occurs here. Other areas such as, Agate Beach, Waldport Beach, Whiskey Run, Myers Creek, and other beaches along the coast also have razor clam populations, but tend to be less available."

However, the tricky part here is that it will soon be illegal to go clamming on the north coast for a while. From Seaside north to Warrenton, it’s banned from July 15 until September 30. Aside from those restrictions – or any toxicity problems that may arise – you can go clamming 24 hours a day.

You need a license to go clamming on the coast.

For razor clams, the limit is 15. They can be taken by hand or hand-powered tools.

“Razor clams may be taken by hand, shovel, or cylindrical gun or tube,” says the OPRD’s website. “The opening of the gun/tube must be either circular or elliptical with the circular gun/tube opening having a minimum outside diameter of 4 inches and the elliptical gun/tube opening having a minimum outside diameter dimension of 4 inches long and 3 inches wide.”

Sunset Beach, between Seaside and WarrentonIt is unlawful to remove clams from the shell before leaving the harvest area.

For bay clams, like gaper, butter, cockle or littleneck, the legal limit is 20 clams – a limit of 12 for gapers.

The taking of oysters is not allowed.

Rules do change periodically, so keep your eye on the state’s website for that as well.

Regulation books are available free of charge where angling and hunting licenses are sold. For more information contact the Marine Resource Program (http://www.dfw.state.or.us/). 2040 SE Marine Science Dr, Newport, Oregon; or (541) 867-4741.

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On the north coast, razor clamming is especially hot – from Tillamook Bay northward. Areas like Rockaway, Manzanita, Cannon Beach and Seaside are excellent for obtaining the delicious little critters. All you need is the right tools and a license, purchased from any sporting goods stores. But north of Seaside, it’s even better.

Part of the reason here is the large amount of nutrients that feed clams, coming from the currents of the north coast, and run off from the Columbia and Necanicum rivers.

This confluence of nutrients also results in the most plentiful beds of sand dollars near the mouth of the Necanicum – at the very northern end of Seaside or the very southern end of Gearhart. Consequently, it’s on these beaches where you’ll find the most impressive array of whole sand dollars on the entire Oregon coast.

Local beach expert Guy DiTorrice has some interesting secrets of the trade to impart for the central coast. Firstly, the bays are the hotbeds for clamming.

“Thick sandy shorelines have something to do with great razor clamming,” said DiTorrice. “They like to move around, so they need real sandy locations. Our cobble-strewn beaches at most locations here do not bode well for razor clamming as much as they do for cockles and steamers.”

He says there are excellent clam beds on the Yaquina River, in Newport, next to the dock for OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center (which can be found where Marine Science Drive dead-ends).

Clamming can be excellent in Arch Cape as well"Make sure you get there at minus tides," DiTorrice says. "Use your waders - it's muddy. Bring a rake and bucket. Nice cockles and horsenecks, with an occasional razor. And the current at this turn in the river keeps your shellfish clean."

DiTorrice stresses to check your limits because game enforcement is common in the area.

As for crabbing, DiTorrice stresses to not crab off the jetties in Newport. "The rocks you are standing on are the visible part of a much larger rock mass. Your brand new crab ring is more likely to get tangled in the rocks below."

That's no problem for DiTorrice, he says. He's an accomplished diver who sometimes heads down below to pick up lost crab rings and then resells them.

"Stick to the public docks in all coastal cities - and watch your tides," DiTorrice adds. He also provides some other interesting tidbits of advice: "The smellier the bait the better. And think about a charter boat or small boat rental for Yaquina Bay."

Mya arenaria - a soft shell clam found in bays on the coastThe really interesting secret about clamming is that you may want to wait until for the best catch. Get in on the fact there's hardly anyone else doing it at that time of year and snag a bigger, better catch. For clamming, minus tides and lesser sands (because of storms) make that a little easier. Crabbing has an extra nice touch in winter because shells are harder, making for more compacted and better meat in your catch.

But for a real clamming secret, talk to Bill Hanshumaker, marine education specialist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. Here's what he says about one particular morsel: "Hunt down an invasive specie and eat it! Soft shell clams (Mya arenaria) were transplanted to the West Coast in the late 1800's and are usually abundant in the upper estuaries. Even when razor clamming is closed on the beach (due to harmful alga blooms), it is usually safe to dig soft shells. And it doesn't require a licensing fee!"

This breed of soft-shelled clam is six inches long, and according to one source it is described as: "The thin fragile valves are white with the brown periostracum along the hinge region. There is a large, spoon-shaped internal projection, the chondrophore, on the left valve at the hinge. The siphons are light tan interspersed with dark brown. It is found 12 inches (20 cm) below the surface."

It's usually found in mixtures of sand and mud, or mud and gravel, where salinity is lesser because of fresh water entering into the area.

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Not happy about this experiment. I tried, I really...

Redesigns happen, but the good thing about the old Google news is that it gave the top few stories in a section and if you wanted more you could click through.  All the center column is now is a long list.  That means the only useful part is the right column - which is cluttered before any categories are added.
This new formatting is incredibly atrocious—Google needs to learn to not try to fix what isn't broken. If they think that the new formatting is an improvement of any kind, they couldn't be more wrong. It looks like they simply removed any formatting that was there in the first place and didn't fix it....Bring back the old layout: one of the reasons I gravitated to Google News was because it had several top stories and then had more articles in various columns/sections as you scrolled down. I could get a decent sampling of all the news this way.

The new set up is counter-intuitive and does not allow me to simply peruse through headlines as easily as before. I would be willing to try it out, if it made more sense or made things easier, but overall, the inability to change it back makes me more irritated than anything else.

Some of the people in this post were asking for a comparison screen shotSee screen shot comparison here: New news is bad news.  Not coming back.It SUCKS! Please put it back, or give me an option to display it the old way. Who needs a news page with nothing but headlines? I like scanning the tidbits of the story before I waste time clicking through. Also, I was enjoying the quick-flip at the bottom. I didn't realize Google used production pages for experiments, but it's enough to make me find another source. Put it back, or loose a user! I hate it. I used to go more than once per hour to google news, but now I have looked into other news services. Still I haven't found one as good as google news, but I really dislike the new layout so much that now I go one or two times per day because its almost impossible to me to find the news that I like, or may like.Google is getting WAY too big for its britches.One more day, and then I am out of here - Probably to Yahoo, or someone who cares about MY choices.Amazing. Nearly all of the feedback HATES the new design.

The new design also produces a lot of junk articles.

Google's attitude? Screw the users. Google won't change the design.

Here's another Google screwup, just like Buzz.

Why not give us an option to opt out of this "experiment"?

Or is the experiment to see how long before we give up using Google altogether?

New design is horrific, what were they thinking? Makes Huffington Post look like a Nobel Prize design.

In other words, following in the great tradition of Buzz, Google should immediately roll this out to everybody. Hey, we're Google, got a problem with that?

Worst layout ever, I will never use google news if it doesn't go back to the original layout. I DID opt out.  I am back (Thank HEAVENS) to a real news page.Delete your cookies for Google.

Deleting cookies

You can delete all or some cookies in Internet Explorer.

To delete a single cookie

In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. On the General tab, under Browsing history, click Settings. Click the View files button. Click the Name column heading to sort all the files alphabetically, and then scroll down until you see files that begin with the prefix Cookie:. All cookies will have that prefix, and they usually contain the name of the website that created the cookie. So, look for something that says cookie:YOURNAME@Google something Right-click the cookie you want to delete, click Delete, and then click Yes. Close the window that contains the list of files, and then click OK twice to return to Internet ExplorerThe redesign is terrible. Please revert back to previous version.I was so pissed off i actually went to yahoo, somthing i swore i would never do and it is clear where google got their inspiration from since they are almost identical. The yahoo page sucks just as bad as this new bullshit layout. The first reviews and furious comments regarding this "experiment" were posted on Feb 4th, why the F*** is this not being addressed? Google is seriously the next Microsoft, fixing shit that is not broken and then pretending to actually listen to all of the sheep complain. FUCK YOU GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I also do not like the new design. Deleting all the google.com cookies as described in an earlier post "fixed" the problem for me (brought back my customized news page).

As others have mentioned, I wish there had been an easier, more "visible" way to opt-out.

The new design looks awful!!! Please revert back to the old design as it's much easier to navigate.
Seriously, move it back, or at least give users the option to choose.  What, exactly, is the experiment?  Where was the notice, or option to opt in?  Based on the feedback that I'm seeing, you're trying to see how far you can aggravate people before they move.  Please give us the option to opt out.I am sad to report that while deleting the cookies worked for me for a period of approximately two weeks, the redesigned layout came back uninvited.  I am afraid that this means that Google is expanding the scope of this ill conceived "experiment."  What is most disheartening is that there has been no response or comment by the Google staff since Feb 4.  Almost all the feedback posted here has been negative, but Google remains silent.  Reluctantly, I've been looking for alternative news aggregators.  Perhaps not coincidentally, the Bing news page also uses an ungrouped large central column like the new Google News layout.  Among alternatives, the best I've found is reuters.com.  Because we, as users, do not pay for Google News we have no effective way to voice our dissatisfaction except to go elsewhere.  Perhaps the true experiment here is not with the page layout, but with what abuse we Google users will tolerate.Awful. Awful Awful.  How can I get my old page back? Deleting cookies did not work for me either. Very angry not to have been given a choice.  Wasted half an evening trying to "fix" page, scrolling through endless articles in which I have no interest whatsoever, unable to find the sections I want. What are you thinking?
Sigh.....    I uderstand that I don't pay for any of this, at least not in cash, so I have no "rights" in this situation, but this is so annoying.  The effects, of Google's "news experiment", that they SHOULD be evalutaing are not how users feel about the usability of the new layout, but rather user's reaction to the forced change; that no one wants these types of changes forced on them.  They don't want their home page unneccesarily turned upside down, and they don't want to feel led around by the nose (with all the bovine implications) with something as fundamental as the FIRST THING THEY SEE every time they open a browser.  Is that what the expeiment is actually about: "How important are user's home pages to them"?There are two duscussions running about Google's "news experiment".  Among approximately 80 comments, only one post wasn't actually angry, and even that commenter didn't like the changes.  Some commenters are angry, and offer comments about usability, but most commenters are just angry;  angry at having this thrust in their faces, angry at being forced to learn a new interface for which there is no apparent benefit, and, in fact seems to provide considerable detriment.In light of Google's lack of response to both of these threads, I've changed my home page to msn.com.  Another users suggested that Reuters website is customizable in a manner similar to Google's old News layout.  I may try that, but I'm done here.I REALLY don't like the "new" Google news page.  Firefox goes straight to the new news page.  IE goes to the old format.  I will be using IE until Google gets their heads out of their collective A$$ and at least gives users an option to switch between the two formats.
Finally, the experiment is over. The idiot designer got a promotion. My news page returned to its normal (and much better) layout.

If Google wants to make an improvement, get rid of the default Top Stories section at the top of the page. Let us define our own keywords for every section.

Instead of having the top stories organized by category and all categories visible at the same time, I have to click through each one at a time. I'm not seeing the improvement here, in fact it's really turning me off from Google news. Fast Flip is the greatest thing google has ever done!!! Fast Flip is the future of web surfing especially for news sites.If Fast Flip is what this debacle is called, here is a heartfelt, cumulative & collective bird flip to Google from all of us here on this site.1)  The suggestion that those of us who are displeased should flush our cookies is idiotic and patronizing.   A PROMINENT button saying "RESTORE" would have been how hard to code?
2)  You want feedback?  Don't make me jump through 4 screens to give it.
3)  Want to surprise us people with Beta "experiments"?  Don't!  I don't need goddamn surprises.
4)  Oh yeah... feedback.  If you guys need someone to tell you what a piece of shit your redesign is... you should be fired.
Terrible design, I'm totally surprised by Google. they are usually pretty good at coming up with better products not worse ones. Where did my sections go? Oh - the left panel? Now I have to make multiple clicks to see the news I had customized before in one single comprehensive page. If there was some thought as to how this new layout would be "better" I wish they would have made some note of it. Instead I got dropped onto a page that made no sense. I cleared my cookies and cache and now it's back to what is more helpful to me. If it happens again, I'm gone...To DATABONG .... thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
I really dont like this new outlook design crap.  I cant read news at google.  Please change back my layout or at least show us how to do it I am extremely unhappy with it and I would like the old layout back this is really harassing people like me who read google news everyday.  I wont be coming to google and reading news ever again if it doesnt get back to normal.Horrible design, cluttered, distracting, dumbed down and too damned "widgetized".  I don't want to (and simply won't) do a mouse-hover over every item just to see some context. The sidebars are out of hand. It's annoying as hell to see a "progress indicator" on the personalization -- Come on people, you're making it seem as if I'm morally obliged to personalize the thing. It should be an option, not a chore and an eyesore.

When I want clutter I go to "igoogle" (rarely) and to Google Reader. News should be simpler and smarter.

I can't understand why you folks in Googleville keep up with these endless, counter-productive tweaks to your products when you leave many basic, simple, commonsense improvements undone.

I have put up with this idiotic experiment for a week now and enough is enough.How long do your experiments run before you realize that its not working and you go back to what worked fine in the first place??? Kinda reminds me of BP,they dont listen either.Oh well guess its off to Yahoo news.Bye bye.I am done with google news.  I shouldn't have to spend all this time messing with their website because of their stupidity.  There is plenty of evidence that users want the old format back and they have chosen to ignore it.  I'm voting with my web surfing ability.  Someone else will take my web news traffic.  I'm sure I'll hear about it when and if google news reverts back.PLEASE REMOVE THE IMAGE BACKGROUND ON HOME PAGE.  THIS IS HORRIBLE.  WE WANT OPTIONS.  STOP COPYING BING!!Not happy about this experiment. I tried, I really tried but the new format is too bad. Too much wasted space and not enough glancable content. The 2 column format was way more readable. So now, how do I put it back withouth nuking all of my browser's cookies?Here's how to bring back the old news format in IE 81.  Go to the Google news page in IE2.  Hit F12 to bring up IE's developer tools window3.  Select the Cache menu then select "clear domain cookies'4. Close the IE windows and re-launch Google newsThis will nuke just the Google cookies and reset the news back to the old format.Before running such huge experiments, you should try to run a focus group between your users, you can pre-test ideas without creating a major pain around the world.Big lesson today, research more about your users preferences, and as Coca-Cola learned sometime ago, even if you are Coca-Cola, do not try to change the Coke flavour!!!Even if you are Google, do not get out of the simple search engine homepage!!! That is why your users love you!!! Simplicity!!!PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE revert it back to how it was!  I used to go to news.google.com MANY MANY times a day and now I won't go back if it remains like that!  I WON'T GO BACK EVER AGAIN!  I'LL GO TO BING I SWEAR!You guys really, really screwed up.  Revert or I stop using Google, period.
PLEASE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) give us the option to completely get rid of ALL of the following sections:* Greater New York (i.e., local news)I used to be able to customize Google News to only show the sections which *I* am interested in. Now, there is all of this extra, annoying junk which completely ruins the news page for me.It would be OK if we had a choice about whether we could see this experimental stuff, but currently, there is no way to get rid of it, and THAT IS ***TOTALLY*** UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sorry for shouting, but this is really infuriating.If you folks at Google want to release an experimental look and feel, that's fine. But you should also provide a way for us users to disable it if we don't want to see it. It is at best amateurish and at worst condescendingly arrogant to not allow us a way to remove these new features in your experimental software.The Google employee who made the decision to not allow us to disable this experimental stuff should be summarily fired.Please *immediately* give us a way to disable all of the sections that I mentioned above.I'd also like to add that it is rather dishonest to call all of this new stuff "personalization".In the past, I could choose which items would appear or not appear on my Google News page. Now, there are all of these sections which I can't get rid of. In other words, this new, experimental stuff is much *less* personalizable than before.Or perhaps you folks at Google are arrogantly thinking that *you* know how to "personalize" things for me better than I do. I hope I'm wrong about this. I'd hate for Google to become another Apple.PS: I deleted all google-related cookies and restarted my browser, but I'm still seeing the experimental Google News page. I'm using the Google Chrome browser under Windows.Go to: Choose a category All Discussions Google News Suggestions Google News Users - Troubleshooting How to use Google News Google News Publishers - Sitemaps Google News Publishers - Troubleshooting Google Living Stories - Troubleshooting The Google News redesign Quality of Google News Sites

Cat Aggression - Is She Really a 'Bad Mama'? Or is She Just a 'Scare-dy Cat'

Wikipedia describes aggression this way:

"In psychology, as well as other social and behavioral sciences, aggression refers to behavior between members of the same species that is intended to cause pain or harm."

So, right away we can eliminate the term 'aggression' when we encounter a cat that shows a ferocious hiss if we come to close. Obviously, one of us is not a cat. But, what does it mean when we are quietly petting our cat and she suddenly turns, grabs the hand that pets her and sinks her teeth into it? Surely, that's a form of aggression; even if we aren't members of the same species. Getting away from definitions and such, what we really want to know is why does a cat show what is definitely a behavior that says "get away and don't touch me!!", or what many term as cat aggression.

First of all it is helpful to not confuse cat aggression with the kind of aggression that's found in people. People are complex entities that are driven by many things, such as emotions, belief systems, family ties, the "seven deadly sins", the boss's moods or the NFL on Sundays. People are able to pass their aggressive nature around like the common cold infecting those around them, especially when inspired by a call to action for a certain cause (think half-time in the locker room). We can even turn it on and off, if and when we want to. That same Wikipedia definition goes on to state that some psychologists draw a direct relationship between low IQ and aggressive behavior; those towards the higher end of the IQ spectrum are more likely to be termed as assertive. But, our purpose here is not to split hairs between aggressive and assertive human personalities.

In animals the aggressive side of their personality is usually linked to certain and specific situations. Here it is helpful to note the difference between cat aggression and the predatory nature of cats. Certainly, when cats demonstrate the stalking, chasing, capturing and killing of prey they are showing a very distinctive quality of aggression. This type of aggression is called goal oriented aggression. Cats hunt in order to provide food for themselves, and in some cases, their kittens. Even when your cat brings home a field mouse and presents it to you, she is acting out a eons old instinct, although she may not know what to do with her catch. Cats will hunt, quite often for their entire life, while at the same time they are well fed and cared for by their owner. Maybe this is just cats showing they can be assertive, too.

Most all other forms of cat aggression are known as defensive aggression. These kinds of cat aggression characteristics can be directly attributed to three aspects of the nature of cats:

The Territorial Nature of Cats

The Maternal Instincts of Cats

The Degree of Socialization of Kittens

Cats mark (define) their territory with scent marks that tell all others that this is her land. She will defend that territory against all other cats. Notice I say 'all other cats'. She will confront and chase away all uninvited cats vigorously. Other animals, including people, she may or may not confront, depending on whether she feels threatened. Predators may get a free pass as she lowers her head, with eyes dilated, and becomes as unobtrusive as possible. But other cats will get a very unwelcome confrontation and generally will respect what she is telling them, including avoiding her territory in the future. Or at least, if they have to, they'll cross her territory very cautiously (isn't it amazing how swift a cat can be, yet when called for they can move in the slo-motion that TV sports analysts would admire?).

The only invited guests she'll entertain are any males that respond to her caterwauling when she comes into heat. "Invited" guests may be a little misleading. Complete strangers can show up and the result is a ritual to determine who the best mate is will ensue. This will include fighting and growling in single elimination scraps until a victor is determined. Even then a female cat might mate with the second or third place finisher in addition to the winner. It's all so very uncivilized and unladylike. But, when she's mated all those boys had better watch out. They'll all be chased off so that she can bear her kittens in well deserved peace and solitude.

After the kittens are born, there is even more reason to demonstrate her territorial cat aggression. Not only does she have to protect her territory and the food it supplies, but she has to offer protection to her young brood. Cats have very strong maternal instincts and she will face the fiercest threat to her kittens head-on. And, if the predatory threat is too strong for her, she will distract it into chasing her so she can lead it away from the kittens den.

Cat aggression is also linked to the experiences cats had when they were a kitten. Everything your cat knows, she learned when she was a kitten. When kittens have positive experiences while they are young, the more likely they will accept those encounters when they are grown. If kittens have a bad encounter with unfriendly people or other pets, or their kitten-hood is over-protective and they don't have the opportunity to have a lot of experiences, they can grow into shy, withdrawn adult cats. This socialization of kittens is the process of allowing them a well-rounded introduction to the things that make up her world. Cats are smart enough to know what poses a danger and what is not a threat. A kitten who was introduced to a friendly dog will grow up not being threatened by dogs in general. But, she will know when a dog isn't being friendly, she shouldn't stick around to find out why.

This kind of cat aggression is based in fear. Cats are most comfortable in familiar surroundings and familiar faces. Those things and images she has not been positively socialized with will cause her to be reclusive and even afraid of. That's why kitten socialization is so important. One can see why feral cats especially will show aggressive growling and hissing towards anyone or thing outside of their colony brethren. Probably though, one won't get close enough to cause such a reaction unless she perceives imminent danger.

When it comes to 'biting the hand that pets you', a different kind of cat aggression needs to be defined. Let's call it personal space aggression. In addition to the the territory your cat calls her own, there is an area that surrounds her physical body she considers her personal space. Just like people, she will only allow certain individuals to intrude into that personal space. Further, this space can expand or collapse depending on her mood. Kinda like people. As her provider, she will allow you closer than others. If strangers were allowed to handle her when she was a kitten, she will be friendly to them as an adult. The puppy she grew up with will enjoy the same liberties. Few others will be allowed that same degree of closeness. Even then it comes with a set of unwritten rules. Generally speaking, she will be the one to determine if and when anyone is allowed into her personal space. Including the puppy she grew up with.

If she's quietly lying on your lap and you're gently stroking her, there are a few things that can cause her to want you to stop. You may be irritating a sore spot with your petting. She may be aroused sexually and really not be interested at that particular moment. Or she just may grow tired of being stroked. In any case, she'll show signs of irritation when she's finished with the session and you should take note of them. Her ears will lie back against her head, her eyes will dilate and she will stare at the source of her irritation, namely your hand. That's when it's time to stop and go get a treat, just to stay on her good side.

All these forms of cat aggression: goal oriented, defensive or personal space, can cross over each other and blend into the creature you know as your cat. Broken down they help with the understanding of why a cat shows aggressive behavior, but they all work together in the real world and define a part of a cat's personality. One thing to remember is for you to not take cat aggression personally. Cat aggression is closely linked to a specific reaction to a cat's interpretation of a negative element in her environment. I imagine that if she were in the locker room at half-time, she would be hiding in the corner wondering 'what the heck is wrong with those guys?'.

Robert J Gallegos is the author of http://www.catlover-giftsworld.com a web site dedicated to proper cat care with quality cat lover gifts based on an understanding of cat behavior, instincts and the unique requirements for healthy cats as pets. Cats are the newest of animals to be domesticated and still have one paw in the wild. It's a major reason why they're so mysterious and resistant to human expectations.
Robert is a life long lover of cats. He is dedicated to sharing his understanding of the cat experience, reducing the epidemic feral cat situation, and helping cat lovers to provide the best care for their cats.

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