A Michael Broad Blog
I see this as a bizarre incident. I can’t understand it. The newspapers have described it as a burglary of an animal sanctuary. However, the owners of the sanctuary have started a crowdfunding plea for money on the gofundme.com website and what they say does not concur with what the newspapers say, not exactly …
The serval is a tall, slim and lightly built wild cat species found in Africa. In America, some people like to domesticate them. This is quite rare but they can be domesticated to a certain extent but in my view they do not make good pets. Is the serval nocturnal? The serval is usually …
Brits should be proud of themselves. We now have three cats employed by the three major departments in the British government. At Number 10 Downing Street, the home and office of the UK’s Prime Minister, we have Larry. At the Foreign Office we have Palmerston. And about a month ago, but only recently reported …
The internet tells me that certain sounds, in this case the sound you can make when you run your thumb along the teeth of a comb, causes some cats to initiate the gag response or gag reflex. Here is the video: The reason the lady who made the video gives is incorrect in my …
This “cat catching a bat video”, which you can see below (no longer available – sorry), is amusing. What’s amusing about it is Nick Millerr’s complete panic about the whole thing although I don’t condone or like his attitude towards his cat for bringing in the bat as he calls her a “bitch”. This …
In Portesham, Dorset, a four lane racetrack was built similar to a greyhound racetrack. It was opened by an enterprising hotelkeeper. The course was about 200 meters (220 yards) long. Greyhounds chase hares. Cats chase mice and so the racetrack was fitted with an electric mouse to get the cats to run as fast …
Lisa Keefe appears to me to be a very good cat guardian/caretaker. She looks after her crossbreed Bengal cat whose name is Bobby. Bobby liked to sleep in the washing machine. Lisa knew it and checked. On this occasion she had taken him out of the washing machine before turning the machine on. But …
Venezuela is sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves and for that reason successive governments have depended upon revenue from the sale of oil to run laudable but mismanaged socialist programs across Venezuela for years. Now the price of oil has fallen dramatically and because the government depended upon oil so heavily without diversifying, …
