A Michael Broad Blog
Based upon federal law, approximately 30% of pet food sold in the USA can be described as adulterated. The reason is that federal law states that pet food must be considered adulterated if any of the ingredients do not come from a slaughtered animal. It can be said with some certainty that many of …
I’m delighted to report that Black Sabbath’s co-founder and bassist is a self-proclaimed crazy cat person vehemently against the declawing of cats. He likes performing in New York and you may recall that in the state of New York the legislature is debating the statewide ban of declawing. It would be a magical moment …
Coby is a pure white, British Shorthair with the most brilliant and dazzling azure eyes (the colour of the sky on a clear summer’s day). Can we agree that this cat has the most beautiful eyes amongst all the cats that we have seen on the Internet? I’m not saying that he has the …
In the UK there is one pet detective service. It is called Animal Search UK. The business was founded by a former police officer, Tom Watkins. He is dubbed the real-life Ace Ventura after the 1994 pet detective film starring Jim Carrey. He set up shop in his garden shed in 1999. Initially he …
Bayou Corne is a small place in Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico, USA. On 3rd August 2012 a massive sinkhole opened up in this community. The sinkhole, which is a large hole in the ground caused by mining underground, was a result of mining by a company called Texas Brine. They had mined …
I think we know that animals are wonderful at helping young people with mental conditions, particularly, I believe, autism which is a condition whereby a child has great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people. In this instance six-year-old Iris Grace barely communicated for the first few years of her life. Her …
A Catoosa County, Georgia woman is facing charges for feeding a colony of feral cats in Fort Oglethorpe. The city has a new ordinance making it illegal for people to feed feral cats. Residents are upset because they’ve been tending to the cats for years and fear the cats will starve to death since …
There are many thousands of private zoos in America. Sometimes people refer to them as roadside zoos. I don’t want to go on about it but they are a symptom of humankind’s failure to properly protect and conserve wild species in the wild. The private zoo is a symptom of an improper relationship between …
