What affects us affects cats
Petitions do work….sometimes. At one time I thought they didn’t. This is a notable success. This is not hot-of-the-press news but interesting information nonetheless. Both myself and Elisa have written about this before as has Robyn Gianotti. At one time, training medical students could involve cats (has this totally stopped in the USA?). Perhaps …
This is a happy ending cat story although the happiness cannot wash away the unhappiness of being chained up in the back of a truck and used as a circus big cat for a staggering twenty years. Peru banned circus wild animals. The law had to be enforced vigorously because most circuses defied the …
In her will, Rhoda Hogan gave $125,000 (USD) to: “An organization to be used to publicize and educate the public about the cruel effect of de-clawing cats and to support legislation forbidding it.” I have to conclude that Rhoda was a cat lover. She cared deeply about cat welfare, it seems to me. I …
I have just discovered the work of Steven Keiper Jr and I’d like to promote it. I want to promote his work because, through the struggles of a person close to me, I understand the difficulties with life that alcoholism presents. It makes life much harder – almost impossible sometimes. It makes life dangerous …
At 5 pm on 8th April 2016, Alexis Myers wrote an article about feral cats and how they successfully keep down the rat population in parts of Chicago. Around four hours later, at 9:26 pm an article written by John Kass is published rebuffing Myers’ article and denigrating the feral cat. It is a …
The sentence for convicted cat killer Ted Dodenhoff was handed down on Friday, April 8 following the March conviction for first degree animal cruelty and first degree animal neglect. Dodenhoff was told at the end of March to make plans for his son to have a place to stay before the sentencing, This is …
You might have read this story as it’s all over the Internet. I resisted writing about it because it’s so sad but I thought I’d have a go at it nonetheless today. Tilly is thought to be the UK’s oldest rescue cat at 24-years-of-age. She is a tortoiseshell cat and she has been at …
This craze seems to have evolved out of Instagram, the photo sharing website. If you are a serious cat person and if you love standout hairdos, and if you want to merge the two you can shave the image of a cat into your hair as you can see in the picture below. I …
