A Michael Broad Blog
There are twelve Russian cat breeds on my calculation — one is, in fact, an alternative coat type (pointed) of the Siberian cat (a sort of sub-breed, the Neva Masquerade), and one is a miniature cat, the Toy Bob (open the miniature cat link for a brief reference to it – it looks like …
A businessman in China has been caught illegally buying, killing and eating three tigers that were smuggled into, China probably from India/Bangladesh. That would make them Bengal tigers, which were almost certainly poached from a reserve. He was jailed for 13 years and fined £160,000 – 1.5m yuan or $250,000 USD. The man is …
An slightly ethereal photo of Gabriel under in the bed with me. It is Photoshopped to a certain extent to remove me 😉 – I was lying next to him . Also it is converted to B&W and I added a bit of blur to the background areas. Gabriel likes to join me in …
This is about the famous celebrity cat, Maru, and mugumogu who looks after him, and how the videos are made. One of Maru’s great attractions is his inscrutable face. Maru’s “owner” (caretaker or guardian or better still “housemate”) has the online username of “mugumogu”. The housemate is a female. I had always assumed the …
Is this the biggest Siberian tiger in the world? He/she is captive and tame at least with this man. I don’t know who he is. Possibly one of the private zoo owners of America. The Siberian tiger is the world’s biggest cat anyway but of course they vary in size and weight. The maximum …
What were the most notable cat events or stories of 2014? How has the domestic cat world evolved over the past year? It is that time of year to take stock and see whether we can see trends. Working on this site provides me with the opportunity to see trends; more so that for …
All Hayley Crews wanted was to see a few dollars from the sale of a box spring (as in part of a mattress set) that she listed on Craigslist. She and her boyfriend were getting a place of their own, and the bedding was no longer needed. Instead of making some fast cash, Hayley’s …
It seems that a couple of spinster sisters who lived in the hamlet of Saveock, Truro, Cornwall in the south-west of England were practising witches. They lived near a site described as a Neolithic platform where there are 40 grisly witch pits. The history of these pits goes back 350 years. The sisters died …
