By Daniel J. Haughton Her name was Tabitha and she came into my life in mid-2009. I am disabled and live with my parents in central Mississippi with (at the time) my mother’s Pomeranian and my own gray and white tabby domestic shorthair rescue kitty. We had decided among us that we wanted another …
Cat declawing started around the middle of the 20th century by dogfighters who appeared to have declawed cats themselves and then thrown the cats to their dogs as “live bait” to warm them up for an impending fight. Then veterinarians appeared to have cottoned on to it, renamed it “onychectomy” to make it sound …
It is the time to write about a charity donation funded by the PoC Comment Charity Scheme. Before I address that subject, I’d like to mention the £100 donation made by Marc Poberejsky, a regular and well-regarded contributor to PoC. Marc’s Donation Not long ago, Marc made an extremely generous donation of $1000 in …
Suzy mentioned TigerLily’s problem with hairballs. Long haired cats can have problems with hairballs. They can cause obstructions. For Charlie (my cat) hairballs seem to have grazed the lining of his lower intestine or at least inflammed it slightly. He is a shorthaired cat with a single coat but he was grooming too much …
What are the cultural differences between the UK and the USA and do they affect how people care for their cats in these countries? I’ll remark right away that having worked through this page, learning and thinking as I went along, I have not come to a firm conclusion. I thought that I might. …
These are the latest photos from Leanne, she says: ‘B/W……What does it mean to you?’ It means black and whites to Kays Hill and lots of them, so many that we need two posters this time. Second to completely black cats there seems to be a lot of black and whites in Rescue Shelters. …
By Suzy Hi….I have acquired a very beautiful and delightful-temperamented 8 year old female cat in October 2012 called TigerLily. She was probably pre-owned by two or more owners before me. She is an indoor cat with excellent house manners, who after nine months has managed to explore her new big garden but still …
This is a nice picture of caged humans being looked at by free lions. That’s the way it looks and for me it is a very pleasant picture that turns the tables on the human. It hints at something better, for me 😉 However, these are not free lions. They are also caged by …
