My name is Lynette Ackman. I wasn’t always a crazy cat lady. In fact, there was a time when I didn’t have any cats. I got my first cat in college, when a fellow student asked me to watch his for the summer. Then, he never took her back. Years later, when I was about to have my first apartment to myself (no roommates), I got a second cat.
In 2001, I thought I should take advantage of my new building’s lack of limits to adopt a third cat. My friend told me “Lynette, if you get a third cat, you might as well announce to the world that you plan on never marrying again.” I thought about it, and adopted the third cat.
In 2002, I lost two of my three cats. I went to adopt a cat to keep me and my single cat company, and for the first time in my life, I started to realize just how *many* cats lacked homes. It was heart-wrenching to choose only one, but I did. A month later, when I saw one of the “runner-ups” was still at the shelter and had been upgraded to “urgent”, I took home a third. A few months later, a friend asked me if I could find a shelter to take a feral cat in her area if she caught it. He became my fourth cat. It snowballed from there. I started volunteering at a local shelter, initially socializing cats (grooming, working with shy cats, etc.) then later in the clinic medicating cats and preforming other treatments. I eventually went on to serve on their board of directors for three years, and started fostering cats for them and other rescue organizations.
I went from crazy cat lady to FANATICAL crazy cat lady around 2004, when my eyes were opened on the injustice I’d been doing my cats by feeding them dry food. That food was causing the obesity, the diabetes, the kidney disease…. I changed to canned food, and by 2005 I was making much of my own cat food based on the recipes at catnutrition.org and catinfo.org. In 2006, I co-founded “Feline Outreach, Inc.” with two other cat lovers, to provide caregivers with educational and financial assistance.
I consider myself blessed to share my home with these precious animals. They fascinate me in every way – their nutritional needs, their medical needs, their behavior…
I’m author of a column published every other week in the Greeley Citizen (Greeley, Nebraska) – “Chi-Town Chronicles”, tales of a vegetarian-eating cat-loving small-town girl turned big city big-mouth.
Some friends (the “crazy cat beans”) gave me the nickname “Lintee Bean”. We used to joke that our cats called us “human beans” (rather than “human beings”), so each of our cats had a “bean”. My friends started calling me “Lintee”, a misspelling of my name (Lynette). I became “Lintee Bean” or just “Lintee”.
As of June 2015, due to hundreds of emails consisting of spam and attacks, I’m discontinuing the option to email me. I’m also no longer responding to most comments, or even approving them. They’re primarily spam or attacks by people that can’t bother to read my post thoroughly or the evidence I provide that backs up my thoughts. I could try to reason with the commenters, but reason and logic will apparently have no sway on their entrenched belief system and I have better things to do with my time.
Life of the Lintee Bean 
I love you like a sister! Seriously, nice to be able to watch what your up to. Keep it coming 🙂
cat fanatic!! LOL i don’t think so, i think you’re purrfectly normal
*smile*
wow with all those kitties,Lynette, when do you find time to write!?!
love reading the stories of your kitties past and present; you’ve got some really nice photos of them too
You’re the craziest cat lady I know, and believe me, that’s a compliment!!!
Love the blog. Keep up the good work! 🙂
I have eard a lot about you and I receive a lot of writings that my sister Fátima send me often that you use to write. I admire your love for anomals, mostly for cats because I am too a very crazy cat lady.
I pray for you when my sister tell me if you have any cat problem, so, you con count on me anytime you need/want
Maria joão Silva do Carmo
Faro
Portugal
🙂
Hi, I just posted (commented?) and I think I did it in the wrong area. (JellyBean page)
Please take a look at it. Thanks a bunch. Lynn
Dear Madam,
Please remove the initials to HVAH and Dr. P or Dr. G. Again google still leads to your website if you pop in the vet or animal hospital name. I assure you this is slander and defamation and will not be accepted.
Author’s name and clinic removed at request of author
The reason you are still seeing my blog in Google results is because information is cached (stored) for search results and takes some time to clear. I have removed the names from the comments you objected to – which is more than I am required to do legally. (If it were illegal to provide reviews on service providers there would be a multitude of websites whose sole purpose is publishing business reviews in trouble.)
However, your comment to this blog may, in fact, cause Google (or other search engine) hits in and of itself.
If you feel comments are slander/defamation you need to take it up with the person that authored these comments.
Thank you and best of luck.
It has been held, and is firmly established in law, that posters of content to websites are responsible for their speech, NOT the site operators.
You are absolutely right that barring a court order, you are not legally required to touch anyone else’s remarks.
Moreover, this veterinarian (Dr. P) is clearly trying to squelch criticism of him, which in and of itself is suspicious behavior that should cause people to be wary of him and his animal hospital, as well as “Dr. G” whoever the heck that is.
I just wanted to say good job on the site! I was cruising on Ask when I found this site. After spending some time on this blog I’ve come up with some good ideas for my website. I just thought I’d let you know
A great Pet blog you have here. Now frankly I am not much into pets, I am trying to train my Little Pomerian House Breaking… and Not really sure how to train her. She looks cute but she going down on the bed is worse.!
Keep up the good work and love for animals that require a bit more attention to their health! I too am experiencing a cat tale, what I call “the tale of dangerous digestion” with a 9 year old Cornish Rex our family adopted last June. Can you believe this cat came down with pancreatitis the morning of Christmas and I was expecting 16 people over for dinner!! Vomiting, vomiting and more vomiting for a week. Instead of making desserts for guests, I spent my morning in a vet ER across town. After stopping all dry food, trialling of a multitude of wet grain free foods the only thing I strive for in my 45 years of life are tootsie roll stools for this cat!! I already do the B12 injections monthly. What is your success with the Platinum Performance product???
Hi Maureen!
I generally make my cat food using the supplements and the Michelle Bernard/Anne Jablonski/Dr. Lisa Pierson recipe…
https://meowmeowmom.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/raw-done-right/
But I’ve used Platinum Performance for fosters with IBD and it works wonderfully – just add to ground meat/organ/bone.
Lynette
Thanks for sharing. Share is caring after all.
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