In Putin’s big push to win the war in Ukraine he has increased the military budget to 30% of GDP. The average in the West is around 2%. In 2024, Russia is a war machine and a terrorist state. Most citizens of Russia are unaware of it except that they must be seeing substantially …
Nathan Winograd got me thinking about a program called Humane Animal Support Services (HASS). He doesn’t like the programme or at least one aspect of it. He says that under this program “regressive pounds” turn away animals that need a shelter. The program was created by Austin Pets Alive and “embraced” by Best Friends …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a little story tucked away on the internet, almost invisible, but important, about the death of a rescue cat in Ukraine during the illegal war started by Russia which continues to be so devastating to people and animals. The story serves to highlight how the war is killing animals. …
I was at the barbers today to have what hair I have left trimmed 🙂 . As usual for the UK, the hairdresser was Polish (sometimes they are Albanian or Hungarian). And she was a woman. Most Polish hairdressers in the UK are women it seems. They are all good hairdressers. But we never …
Although there are many ways to reduce the length of stay (LOS) of cats at shelters, in this article I look at some information from studies with the goal of reducing LOS. In the first study they found that the average LOS was 61.2 days for both cats and kittens combined that was partly …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The words of the title are those of the founder, Saeed al-Err, of Gaza’s only animal rescue center: Sulala, when speaking to a volunteer with the shelter during this ghastly war. He’s distraught as he can’t help them. Sulala is an amazing animal rescue center. They have a nice website which …
This is a story about a tornado which ripped through Tennessee over December 9 and 10th. It destroyed the home of a ginger tabby cat in Madison. The family was away at the time. A video was made of the devastation and a screenshot from that video, I’m told, showed this ginger tabby cat …
Before I dip into the pros and cons of adopting an old cat from a shelter, I would like to briefly mention a story on social media about a woman (Sarah W) who adopted an old cat who suffered from chronic kidney disease. She knew that he had no more than about 12 months …
