Catexploring as a person of colour, with a cat and a dog – JoAnn, Ava & Patch

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JoAnn is mum to Ava, the cat & Patch, the dog. She is also a person of colour. We chat about introducing a cat and a dog, catexploring with them, the realities of catexploring as a person of colour, reacting to the comments you receive and redefining what normal means.

What we talk about

• About Ava (cat)

• Finding pet friendly rental properties

• Managing cat allergies

• Being a first time cat owner

• About Patch (dog)

• Introducing Patch & Ava

• Ensuring that Patch & Ava get along

• Training Patch

• Catexploring with Patch and Ava

• Importance of crate training

• Being a person of colour while catexploring vs being a while person while catexploring

• Reacting to the situations when people aren’t nice about catexploring

• Being calm and courteous in those situations

• Managing gas lighting

• Importance of learning about other’s point of view

• Experiences with learning about BIPOC

• Breaking your normal

• Feeling that catexploring wasn’t normal initially and how to overcome that

• Learning to not to care about what others think

• Realising that people are curious and positive with catexploring

• Realising that by catexploring, we’re encouraging others to go catexploring

• Advice for new catexplorers

• Most entertaining comment while catexploring

• Catexplorers that inspire JoAnn & Ava

• Product & service that has been a gamechanger for JoAnn & Ava

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Guest – JoAnn, Ava & Patch

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Music

Music for this episode was composed and performed by Kory McIntyre.

Cover art

The photo used for the cover art for Season 7 of Catexplorer Podcast is of @spikie_spycat

Thank you to our superstar Season 7 Catexplorer Podcast Producers

Co-Producers

Roxythe_kitty, Ziggy & Charlie, luna_misty_blue, Adami, Mac, Patch & Ava, bowie_the_siberian

Senior Producers

Chester and Perry