A Michael Broad Blog
The expression “all good things come to those who wait” seems particularly relevant to me at this time. Although my husband Marty and I were longing to adopt an Oriental Shorthair kitten, when we met Edgar Allen Poe, a mixed breed domestic shorthair, we were smitten. Several months ago I introduced him to PoC …
A Canadian cat café, Catfé, has run out of cats! They’ve all been adopted. Great. Success. But you can’t have a cat café without cats so they had to shut temporarily. The café is in Vancouver and it the city’s first (and only?) cat café. The owner is Michelle Furbacher. She has to be …
The title may surprise some people but when people are starving to death pure survival kicks in and anything goes in order to survive, in which case street cats and street dogs are going to be killed and eaten. Where is this taking place? It is taking place in Syria where the Assad regime …
This is an interesting and strange story about a person who was asked to sit in and look after a cat and a dog while the cat and dog owners were on holiday on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is, actually, a very unfortunate story because the cat sitter had …
There have been devastating floods in parts of both the UK and USA. I recently wrote about the rescue of a cat from a flooded home in the North of England and today, in a video, we can see the rescue of a Siamese cat from a trailer home. The rescuers were able to …
Photographs always tell the truth don’t they? No they don’t. They can be misleading and this is one example. The headline describing the photograph above is, we have discovered, misleading. When I first saw the photograph I was minded to criticise the person because it gave the impression that this man had brought his …
This is a very simple question but I think it is an interesting question and it is one that we cannot accurately answer. I also don’t think it is worth looking for answers in books or on the Internet. It is better to rely on our own observations and experiences. I am focusing on …
The words in the title are those of a former student at Culpeper High School in Virginia. Her name is Brynnan. She was a new student at the school at the time. At home, she is very close to the family cat Sparta. Clearly, she loves her cat and has an emotional connection to …
