Franny Syufy – Cats Expert for About.com

This is a large format photograph of Franny Syufy and her son. It is nice to get a good look at her 😉 — good photograph too. Who is she, you might ask!? I know her well, but don’t know her! What I mean is that I know her as an author writing about cats on the About.com website. On that website you will see her face in a very small avatar-sized photograph, which doesn’t really provide enough information.

Franny Syufy and son carrying two tuxedo cats — Oct 2013.

I bumped into her Google plus webpage and then bumped into this nice photograph of her with her son carrying two black-and-white cats which they’re recently adopted in October 2013. They are, in fact, tuxedo cats. They named their cats: Gaither and Sage. Good names. I’d like to know where the first name came from! Perhaps Franny named him after William J. “Bill” Gaither a gospel singer?

Franny Syufy is, in fact, a well known figure in the internet cat world. Well, she is as far as I am concerned. You get to know them. Jo Singer, who writes for PoC is another. Jo also writes for other websites such as Pet360. Ruth (Kattaddorra) and Elisa are in this group too. Elisa writes about dogs a lot on the Examiner.com website.

Catster.com employs quite a large number of cat writers. I don’t know them like I know Franny Syufy.

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Franny Syufy – Cats Expert for About.com — 15 Comments

Franny Syufy on June 20, 2016 at 9:21 pm said:
Hi Michael,
I wish I’d know earlier that you’ve had to field so many questions about my site and my newsletter.
Just some background: This year, February 20th marked the 19th anniversary of About.com, and of my website on Abt. A lot of changes are being made, but I have one of the sites which is able to continue sending weekly newsletters. Readers can sign up at http://cats.about.com/gi/pages/stay.htm. My newsletter goes out every Friday at about 2 p.m. E.T.
I’d also like to invite fellow cat lovers to join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/899475753458293/. We started it last Fall and we now have 1,700 members.
Michael, I thoroughly enjoy reading your column! You are providing a great service for cats and cat lovers all over the world! Thank you for all you do for the cats of the world!
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- Michael Broad on June 20, 2016 at 9:45 pm said:
  Thanks for commenting Franny. And thank you for the compliment which is very welcome. I am sure that we have very similar points of view about cats and animals. I admire your work as well and always have done.
  Any future comment that you make should you wish to make one will be published immediately without being moderated. It is just that all first-time comments are moderated because as you can imagine this site receives a lot of spam.
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Kathryn Stirlen on January 25, 2015 at 6:40 am said:
I enjoyed your weekly newsletter for years and then one day they said they couldn’t send it any longer to my e-mail address. I have hunted and hunted somewhere to contact them about this with no avail. I really miss your news letter!!! I am a cat lover of many years and new information on taking care of them and giving them the best life I can is of great importance to me. Is there any way you can contact them to contact me to get this straightened out? Thanks
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- Michael Broad on January 25, 2015 at 7:27 am said:
  Hi Kathryn, I am sorry to hear that you no longer received the newsletter. It looks like a change in policy at About.com. I’ll have a look at it and see what comes up.
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- Michael Broad on January 25, 2015 at 7:33 am said:
  Kathryn, below is a link to a page about Franny. On the left hand side is where you can sign up to her newsletter. Have you tried this? If not please give it a try. You simply enter your email address. Good luck. If this fails please tell me and I’ll think of something else.
  http://cats.about.com/bio/Franny-Syufy-4919.htm
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  - Kathryn Stirlen on January 26, 2015 at 6:34 am said:
    In the past it was not the original sign up. It was after a few months. Then I would receive 1-2 times a month and then nothing. Then when I would resign up the time would we less and less before it would disappear. The first time this happened I got a letter from you stating that you would no longer be able to send letters due to my e-mail address. It hasn’t changed in 10+ years that is why this is so frustrating. And you can’t communicate directly with someone about this. Thanks
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Ruth aka Kattaddorra on May 15, 2014 at 11:39 am said:
She has a very kind face and I love the way she’s holding the cat in her arms
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- DW on May 15, 2014 at 1:51 pm said:
  Yes Ruth, both a protective, and a loving hold. It is easy to see she is a cat ADDORRA!
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Mordred Hague on May 14, 2014 at 10:49 pm said:
Hi Auntie Franny. U look kinder than my auntie Sheila who wastes time looking after her mean mummy
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- Michael Broad on May 15, 2014 at 5:41 am said:
  Hi Mordred. I think Franny looks nice in this picture. A photo of a cat lover.
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Ruth aka Kattaddorra on May 14, 2014 at 3:10 pm said:
Franny seems a very nice lady and it’s good to see a photo of her. She’s very anti declaw and has a category about it on her about.com/cats page where I’ve ‘met’ some more cat lovers mostly anti declaw too. I’ve posted some PoC article links on there at times when a pro declaw has come along saying declawing isn’t bad!
Franny and her son are obviously great cat lovers 🙂
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Marc on May 14, 2014 at 12:19 pm said:
Love the kittens – they have perfect tuxedo coats.
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- Michael Broad on May 14, 2014 at 6:32 pm said:
  Marc, do you read some of Franny’s stuff? Have you bumped into her work?
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  - marc on May 15, 2014 at 10:46 am said:
    Michael – not that I know of. I don’t think so – I mean it’s possible I have read her but I was unaware of who the writer was – I’ve read quite alot of cat stuff so it’s possible.
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kylee on May 14, 2014 at 11:03 am said:
aww always wandered what she looked like she looks lovely 🙂 and their cats aww they almost look like ruths cats. always love black and white cats:)
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