What affects us affects cats
I don’t see anybody discussing the most important question in the story about a gorilla being shot at Cincinnati zoo because a boy fell into his enclosure. That question is this: why was the boy allowed to get or fall into the enclosure? We are told that the boy climbed through a barrier and …
DAP, a US company based in Baltimore, make a range of tradesman’s products, at least twenty-five of which are potentially toxic to cats because they contain ethylene glycol. You may remember that ethylene glycol is the reason why car anti-freeze kills cats. One of the dangers of using products such as sealants and adhesives …
How safe is the rabies vaccine for cats? The answer is complicated but I will try and reduce it to a simple, sad story today. You have to be a bit cynical about cat vaccinations these days because the more you read about them the more you see the inherent dangers in them. The …
Saturday 28th May 2016 — This is large list of North American veterinarians who do not declaw cats. It should be comprehensive but I can’t verify that. It looks comprehensive. I have simply and slightly naughtily lifted the list from another website (source at base of page) in the interests of cats and cat …
The existence of the jaglion is, for me, an example of human arrogance and self-indulgence. This exotic big cat hybrid should not exist. If you watch the video (it cannot be embedded on this page) you will hear a zookeeper speaking inanely to a captive jaglion. The whole thing depresses me personally. The enclosure …
This is a cat story where semi-feral cats have become an asset to the community. This is the opposite to what usually happens. It is a story which tells us that semi-domesticated feral cats can be an asset, they can be valued by the community and therefore they should be treated well. In this …
We are informed that a senior cleric in Saudi Arabia, when told that there was a trend in taking pictures with cats amongst Saudi citizens, banned the taking of cat selfies as a way of forcing its citizens to avoid becoming like Westerners. Nothing is worse, it seems, in Saudi Arabia than becoming like …
The number of cats, dogs and rabbits rescued in the year by the RSPCA fell significantly. In respect of cats, rescues fell from 41,000 to 32,000. For dogs the number rescued halved in a year to 8,000. This is obviously disappointing news for all animal lovers who respect the RSPCA as the world’s oldest …
