A Michael Broad Blog
News of the inexcusable actions by the Harnett County Animal Shelter is making the rounds on social media today on how a recent panleuk (feline panleukopenia also called: feline parvovirus, aka ‘parvo’) outbreak was handled by the Lillington, North Carolina facility. Animal advocate Susan Shaddock explained it best in a statement she wrote up …
This is mainly a discussion about the difference in mentality of hunters and cat lovers/animal rights advocates. Australian Renee Sullivan, 20, enjoys hunting. She likes to hunt cats of any age. She uses a bow and arrow. She likes to kill kittens therefore. You can see three in the picture that she had just …
Today, The Daily Star has emblazoned across its front page the title: BRIT BIG CAT EATS BAMBI. The caption is: “a terrifying image of an infamous big cat roaming free in the UK has been snapped by a cabbie. It was taken close to an area strewn with mutilated deer corpses.” The animal is …
There’s a situation taking place in Greenville, South Carolina that is turning the stomachs of cat lovers throughout the internet community. A TNR program designed to reduce the number of feral cats using the Community Cat Diversion Program offered through Greenville County Animal Care Services (GCACS) apparently isn’t what it seems. Young kittens are …
In the United States of America, according to the ASPCA, there has been a 45% reduction in the number of shelter animals euthanized over the period 2011 to 2016. I think this is an enormous success and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The actual numbers which are estimates are: In …
The Royal College of Nursing is running a trial on selected wards in hospitals to investigate the benefits of “one-to-one animal therapy” for patients. There are numerous articles on this website about the benefits of cats and dogs to a wide spectrum of people including those at work, those in hospital, elderly people, patients …
In the UK, a survey has found that there has been a decline in the number of pet owners vaccinating their cats and dogs. It is said that 6 million cats and dogs are at risk from diseases because of this change in attitude towards pet vaccinations. The survey found that one in four …
“Where tigers are numerous, leopards are few”. The above is an old adage which tells us that leopards avoid tigers as tigers kill them and eat them. “Leopards are socially subordinate to tigers”. Therefore they try to avoid encounters with the tiger which is a considerably larger animal. There are a number of records …
