Update: Response from GCACS at the bottom of the article. Their defense is spaying a pregnant cat is much safer for the cat than carrying a litter to full term at the shelter or in foster care. A personal message conversation between a member of the cat advocacy community and Greenville County Animal Care …
Flame retardants are extremely persistent. Years after they have been banned they are still leaching out of old products. Both children and cats are particularly vulnerable to flame retardants. Cats sit and spend time lying on furniture and other household items which have been treated with flame retardants. Kids are more likely than adults …
Internet surfers also search using similar terms such as: Why do male cats get blocked Why do male cats get crystals Although crystals and a blockage are not strictly the same as an infection, blockages can result in infections. By “blocked bladders” I am assuming that cat owners are referring to a blockage in …
It may be useful for people to understand how I choose the content for articles on PoC. This short post explains things. My options for deciding the subject matter of articles is limited. To a certain extent it is dictated by circumstance. This is because there are around 12,000 pages on PoC and ancillary …
WMTW-TV reports that Michael Herrmann killed the cats with his bare hands. Astonishing. Truly crazy but he is not crazy. The cats were owned by a family friend who was staying with him. Herrmann told animal control officers what he’d done and explained he did not want the cats in the house because his …
There are an approximate half a million domestic cats in London. I came to this figure as follows: There are 7.4 million cats in the UK. The population of London is 8.674 million. The population of the UK is 64.1 million. Therefore the population of London is 13.53% of the UK population. 13.53% of …
The concluding numbers on this page are based on the following estimates and the figures are rounded for ease of calculations and because you will never get a truly accurate figure because we don’t know how many cats and dogs there are in the world or the USA. We guess but we don’t have …
The very best sources of information about this cat tells me that no one knows how many margays are left in the wild. That might sound bizarre but it is true. We do know that in the areas where they are found they are rare and uncommon. The number of margays per square kilometer …
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