A Michael Broad Blog
I guess they had no choice but to plead guilty in the hope that they would receive a lenient sentence. This concerns the Ashtabula couple, Kaine Fowler and Melissa M. Candela, who posted a video on Facebook of them balling up cats and tossing them between themselves for entertainment, in an apartment where they …
These are the major causes of a cat stumbling around. Injuries or diseases of the cerebellum. The cerebellum is large and well-developed in felines. It is concerned with a cat’s coordination and balance. Accordingly, if it does not function properly through injury or disease the cat stumbles and has uncoordinated movements. A blow to …
Banksy is the famous and elusive graffiti artist whose works are very valuable and yet he creates them on walls in public places where almost anyone can steal them. He has created works around Gaza City to highlight the plight of the Palestinians who are waiting for pledges to be honored worth billions of …
There’s a nice story in the online media about a Swedish cat who will be aged 30 this spring. Her name is Missan. She lives in southern Sweden. Her caretaker, Åsa Wickberg, says she found her as a kitten in 1985. She contacted Guinness World Records because she had read an article about another …
The author of the famous and best book on wild cat species is a couple: Mel and Fiona Sunquist. Mel Sunquist is a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Ecology at the University of Florida. At the time of the publication of Wild Cats of the World (2002) he is stated as being …
This is great news for anti-declaw advocates. The Lakewood Animal Hospital has been declawing cats for many years but have decided to stop. The news comes from veterinarian Tara Hudye. She believes that a growing number of vets are deciding that the declawing of cats is unhealthy to cats as it leads to behavioural …
At one time during the Black Death, an epidemic that lasted from 1347 to 1353 and which returned several times including the great plague of London of 1665, it was thought that cats caused it. During the winter of 1348 and the following summer the Black Death killed a quarter of England’s population and …
Female cats are choosy when they select a tomcat to be the father of her kittens. It’s the same with female humans. Tomcats therefore need to advertise their suitability to the females. They probably do this through their pungent urine, which they spray horizontally on prominent objects in their territory. Which tomcat comes out …
