Bark! Fest Caring for Cats: Lili Chin, Mikel Maria Delgado PhD, Lucy Hoile
Join Lili Chin, Mikel Maria Delgado PhD, and Lucy Hoile to talk about their books and all things feline.
Caring for Cats: Lili Chin, Mikel Maria Delgado PhD, Lucy Hoile
Learn about the best ways to care for cats with these 3 feline authors. The delightful and informative drawings in Kitty Language by Lili Chin teach you how to understand your feline friend. Mikel Delgado’s Play With Your Cat! will inspire you to have more fun through interactive play with your kitty. And in the book your cat wishes you would read, Lucy Hoile empowers cat guardians to build a better relationship with their cat.
Tuesday 10th September 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK time
The event is hosted by Zazie Todd and Kristi Benson.
A recording will be available to all those who register. It will be sent out 72 hours after the live event ends.
Attendees at the live event will have the chance to win a copy of Kitty Language by Lili Chin, Play With Your Cat! by Mikel Maria Delgado PhD, the book your cat wishes you would read by Lucy Hoile and of Zazie Todd PhD's new book Bark! The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog.
About the books
- shows why cats need play and how it is essential to their well-being
- provides readers with techniques on how to engage their cat in play
- reveals how to use play to improve problematic cat behaviors
About the authors
About Lili Chin
Chin is an artist best known for her animal-related art. Since 2008, she has been providing custom illustration and a catalog of art products for sale, and creating educational illustrations for the world of companion animal behavior and welfare.
A partial list of prominent behaviorists, authors, and organizations that have used her art include the late Dr. Sophia Yin, Fear Free Pets, the RSPCA, Wallis Annenberg Petspace, and International Cat Care.
Her first book - Doggie Language: A Dog Lover's Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend, published by Summersdale/Hachette in 2020, has won two awards, and been praised for making an important subject more fun and accessible. Her second book, Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat was published in 2023 by Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House. Both Doggie Language and Kitty Language have been translated to multiple languages around the world.
Lili Chin is Malaysia-born, spent most of her youth in Sydney, Australia and currently lives in Los Angeles with a writer-husband, and two rescued and bonded cats - Mambo and Shimmy.
See more of her work at www.doggiedrawings.net
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About Mikel Maria Delgado PhD
Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and Certified Cat Behavior Consultant who has been working with cats professionally for over 20 years. She worked as a cat behavior specialist at the San Francisco SPCA for eight years before co-founding Feline Minds, where she offers assistance for cat owners, animal shelters, and corporations. Mikel completed her PhD in animal behavior and cognition at UC Berkeley, and was a postdoc at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where she researched the social and feeding behaviors of cats and the health and behavior of orphaned neonatal kittens. She is author of the book “Play with Your Cat!” (2024, Tarcher/Perigee) and co-authored the 2017 book “Total Cat Mojo,” with Jackson Galaxy. Mikel lives in Sacramento, CA with her boyfriend and their three cats: Ruby, Coriander, and Professor Scribbles.
Website: https://mikeldelgado.com/
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About Lucy Hoile
Lucy Hoile is a feline behaviourist and author of The Book Your Cat Wishes You Would Read. As an expert in feline behaviour, Lucy has been improving the lives of cats and their carers since 2010 by resolving their challenging behaviours. She holds a Masters degree in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling and is one of only handful of exclusively fully accredited feline behaviour practitioners in the United Kingdom.
Lucy lectures on cat behaviour on an international scale and aims to reach as many cat carers as possible through talks, books, articles and social media. Lucy and her family are lucky enough to share her home with two cats, Fig and Sparx, Labrador, Bucky and axolotl, Peach.
Website: https://www.lucyhoile.co.uk/
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