A Michael Broad Blog
The topics of pledging toward animal rescues, fundraising, and deceit go hand in hand these days. Please forgive me for being long-winded a bit in this article, but I thought it would be interesting to write on whether the act of pledging to save a cat or dog in a shelter should be abolished, …
Is this story about a lack of adequate regulation by the authorities of North Carolina’s animal shelters managed by individuals? An animal shelter that was considered by some supporters as being good was, in fact, engaged in animal cruelty over a long time before action was taken to close it. Some supported it…. “I …
Introduction from Michael (Admin): I feel that I have to introduce this article by Jo because it is a very complicated area and scientists write in a language which is not easily interpreted by non-scientists. In addition, studies are often a collation of information harvested from other studies and therefore they can compound inaccuracies …
Soft Paws is the most common manufacturer of cat nail caps. We have all heard about them. Some people call them feline false nails or cat claw caps. They are little plastic caps that are placed over your cat’s existing claws. They are glued down. Permanent glue is squeezed into the cap and then …
This story illustrates the great difficulty in enforcing a law which creates an obligation on a cat owner to register her/his cat. Currently, throughout America (and Australia), there are discussions about how to minimise unwanted cats through better cat ownership. One proposal is to make it obligatory to obtain a cat license through registration. …
Across the internet you’ll read about the Muslim Faith. One well-recited aspect of it is that the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam and its central figure, loved cats. It is documented in a Hadith (a verbatim report of the sayings of the Prophet). I have written about Muhammad’s love of cats myself: “Mohammed’s …
Beatrix Potter’s handwritten manuscript about a “well-behaved prime black kitty cat, who leads rather a double life” has only recently been discovered amongst the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Beatrix Potter Collections but it was written in 1914 the year that Potter’s father died and the First World War began. The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots is …
No idea where it is – maybe in South America some where. Anyone with a better idea? It takes guts to crawl through a small opening like that not quite knowing what is down there. Perhaps the lady knew what was down there other than the kitten whose meows were enough to soften the …
