What affects us affects cats
Pettiness amongst a Texas voting council resulted in a library cat, “Browser”, being evicted from his home despite having lived in the library for five years to the delight of patrons. The reasons were unsatisfactory and probably compounded by the usual concerns regarding allergies and health and safety, and all that politically correct stuff …
Domestic cats hunt because it is in their DNA to hunt; because they’re still quite close to their wild cat ancestor in terms of behaviour, so even though we feed domestic cats, their natural drive to hunt is often undimmed although the urge varies between individual cats. This is not about survival and a …
This is Kevin Douglas comment on Facebook: “I had a woman approach me in the parking lot at our local PetsMart with three kittens in a box. She said if she returned home with them her husband would kill them. I wanted to ask her why she would be with a neanderthal but the …
Hundreds of kittens and cats that have passed through the Central California SPCA (some to PetSmart) are at risk of contracting deadly panleukopenia. Central California SPCA have an outbreak of panleuk (Feline panleukopenia or feline distemper) and they have 30,000 cats passing through their facility annually. They use PetSmart as an outlet for adoptions …
A recent survey found that pet ownership has declined in Australia. Numbers have fallen by 200,000 while the dog population has fallen by 100,000 in the past 12 months. It is unsurprising that the cat population has fallen at twice the rate of the dog population, in my opinion, bearing in mind the barrage …
A 70-year-old pensioner developed sepsis because she let her dog lick her frequently. The lady ended up in intensive care in hospital. She had multiple organ failure. She survived. She contracted a bacterial infection from her dog’s saliva. Bacteria, it is thought, in her dog’s mouth, had been passed to the lady when he …
