A Michael Broad Blog
By Elisa Black-Taylor While this isn’t a cat technology story as of today, it will be in about six months. I wanted to share this new information with all of you because it can greatly improve the odds of finding a lost pet, and I know a lot of you also have dogs. It’s …
A woman, Dilys Hadley, living on a very small monthly income, delayed taking her 16-year-old cat, Janet, to the vet for treatment for a bulging eye – an obvious illness requiring treatment. There was a tumour under the eye forcing it out. She was successfully prosecuted under section nine of the Animal Welfare Act …
Gargoyles and grotesques are a form of holy decoration. Grotesques are both decorative and functional. Grotesques deflect water away from the building while gargoyles are part of the guttering – water from the gutter flows through the gargoyles mouth and away from the building. There are 112 grotesques and gargoyles (G & Gs) decorating …
We know that cats are digitigrades and walk on their toes but how would it be if we walked like a cat? It can be difficult to work out exactly what part of the cat’s foot is making contact with the ground other than the toes. So, having checked out the bone structure of …
Here is an unusual photograph of three hyenas and a cat looking for food put out by a person in Harar, Ethiopia. The hyena is a large and very strong animal. Spotted hyenas can be large enough to attack and kill people. Two who attacked people weighed 160 and 170 pounds. There was some …
This is an outdoor cat that lives on the second or first floor of a block of apartments. Together, the cat’s owner and his cat have found a neat and imaginative solution that allows the cat to go outside and enjoy nature: the cat elevator. I love this sort of thing because it shows …
Syria is in the middle of the “fertile crescent”, the area where the wildcat was first domesticated about 9,500 years ago, it is believed. Syria is also the place where, at the date of this post, terribly cruel things are happening to people and to animals in a horrible civil war that the international …
Cat lovers have a high profile cat advocate in Dr Bradshaw. It is good that we have a well known scientist and author who plays fair and who does not have a hidden agenda to promote. Dr. John Bradshaw the well known anthrozoologist and author of Dog Sense1 and the recently published book Cat Sense2 …
