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The Chicken Soup for the Soul Podcast with Amy Newmark:

Toxic Positivity and Other No-No's: What Are You Doing Wrong by Accident?

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Half-Price Cats
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Cat
By Carol Murphy

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
~David Icke

It all started with my husband, who insisted we needed a mouser, a gopher getter, a critter exterminator. We have five acres, and he was getting tired of setting traps. Every morning, I would see him check the ten traps around the upper acreage.

"The gopher population is ridiculous!" he complained.

"You mean we need to get a cat," I replied.

"Probably more than one." He sighed loudly and looked up from setting the latest trap. He had a bucket full of traps and estimated that he had gotten about 100 gophers in the past year. At first, he was sort of like the angler who goes out fishing and has a really good day. As I drove into the garage coming home from work, he would hurry over to my car. "Today, I got three!" he'd brag. Not anymore. I could see the desperation in his eyes. (Keep reading)

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Celebrating Women’s History Month… on Crackle!

grid of selected documataries on Crackle, including 'RBG', 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman', 'Oprah Winfrey Fight for a Better Life', 'Betty White: Pure Gold', 'Whitney Houston: The Greatest Love of All'

That's right… March is Women's History Month and what better way to celebrate than catching up on documentaries about strong, accomplished women or learning about America's first female detective, Kate Warne, in The Pinkertons TV series. Streaming free on Crackle.

 
Woman stands inside a bedroom doorway and smiles at three dogs looking up at her

Professional Pet Sitters Week is the week of March 5 - 11. It's the perfect time to recognize and celebrate all that our pet sitters do! Are you looking for the perfect pet sitter? We can help… check out the Chicken Soup for the Soul Pet Food blog for tips on where to begin.

 

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Cat — Royalties support American Humane.

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101 stories about all the ways in which cats enrich our lives, become part of our families, and make us better people.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Dog — Royalties support American Humane.

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101 stories about all the ways in which dogs enrich our lives, bond our families, and make us better people!

book cover of 'Playdate! (With Bear, Too?)': a smiling bear stands and waves to a mouse, squirrel, and rabbit at a sandbox

Don't miss the new Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies book, Playdate! (With Bear, Too?). Bear is bigger and clumsier than Squirrel's small woodland friends. But when Bear asks to play too, Squirrel refuses to leave him out. Despite a bumpy start, the new friends find an activity they can all do together. On sale March 7, 2023.

 

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