A Michael Broad Blog
Last weekend my husband Marty and I were so excited about attending the first ever cat show held in Ormand Beach, Florida. I really love the Cat Fanciers’ Association’s (CFA) shows and one of the main reasons I truly prefer attending CFA sanctioned shows is that their registry does not allow declawed cats in …
We are told that, in America, the mortality rate among whites aged between 25 to 34 years from drug overdoses has increased fivefold from 1999 to 2014. Among people aged 35 to 44 the rate has trebled. It would seem, that drugs are killing a rising number of poor, white Americans and the following …
Imam Mustafa Efe has the same attitude towards cats as the Prophet Muhammad. There is a great deal of tenderness and genuine love towards stray or community cats at the Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque in the historical district of Üsküdar where Imam Efe works (Imam: “a worship leader of a mosque”). The tenderness and …
I want my cat to ask me for food. I want him to say, “Dad, can I have my dinner?”. This is anthropomorphising my cat but I don’t care. Cats are children substitutes to some people and that’s fine as long as they know it. The classic way a cat asks for food is …
I can remember a visitor (someone who does not like cats, no doubt) who told me that there is no such thing as a “working cat”. He is wrong. We have four good examples in the UK: Florence, Betty, Solo and Leia. Until recently they were the last working animals at a British coal …
I’d like people’s input on this if you have ideas and time. We all know how important a scratching post is. It allows a domestic cat to express his/her natural desires to scratch without upsetting his owner who may be house proud and who may find it distressing to see her furniture scratched. One …
This is a story about the strong community spirit amongst cat rescuers. In times of need they are very supportive of fellow rescuers and their cats. A much loved and sorely missed Charlotte-based cat rescuer, Deb Smith, ended her own life on 7th January. She had cared for over forty cats with her mother …
Cats love us unconditionally. This is what we hear and what we know. So if we lock our cat out of the bedroom at night or at least for part of the night then we are applying a condition to our love for our cat. The condition is that your cat cannot enter the …
