Cat's Call

In 2002 Cats Call replaced Ann Landers advice column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and became the source for advice and opinions about love, relationships, dating and everything else. Cats Call is the refreshingly untraditional advice column that addresses, ponders and skewers just about every subject, from dating your best friends ex to politics... to fashion. In addition to writing Cats Call, articles, op-eds and featured pieces on The Huffington Post, Cat has appeared on television, CBS radio, Fox Sports Radio, Steel City Media radio, Howard Stern News and XMs Chick Chat. She has an irrepressible political bent and holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from American University and a Masters degree in Comparative Politics from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Despite numerous jobs and countless colorful life experiences, Catherine lived in Washington, D.C. for seven years without engaging in a political scandal. She hopes you wont hold that against her. Follow her on Twitter @catspecter . Q. Do you personally read all your mail, or do you quickly flip through letters and emails to find good questions for the column? A. I read every piece of mail, in fact I am the only person who sees Cats Call mail. As for digging around to find juicy, column-worthy questions, there is no need. My paws have more important things to do like getting to work on the next column! Please note: Cats Call is a published advice column, not a hotline, so all content received is considered potential material for publication. I do not privately answer questions unless a situation is dangerous, extremely time-sensitive or in some other way really merits it. I make exceptions here and there, but its rare. Q. How do you choose which questions to run in the column? Do you ever make them up? A. People often ask if the questions in advice columns are made up by the authors. That might be the case in other columns, but never in Cats Call. I receive questions from every state (and a number of different countries), from people ...Read More