A Michael Broad Blog
Here are two interesting instances when smart birds – in these cases crows and a woodpecker – took revenge on cats. The smart birds are part of the crow family (corvids) which includes . The woodpecker is part of the family Picidae. The picture above is a jackdaw taken by me in Richmond Park, …
The Times reports that tigers, lions and hyenas were used in the torture of political prisoners in today’s Ethiopia. One thinks of medieval times and barbaric torture methods but no, according to the current prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, torture by big cats occurred until recently. Abiy told reporters that: “It is hard …
This is the strangest cat abandonment that I have encountered on the internet. A man shattered the glass front door of Liberty Humane Society in Jersey City, USA with a rock and then threw a box containing a cat through the broken door of the shelter. The cat inside the box was very ill …
What is wrong with feeding your cat tuna? Answer: canned tuna is not a complete cat food. Cats need certain nutrients and canned tuna does not contain all the required nutrients. That alone is reason enough to limit tuna as a cat treat. Also there are different varieties of canned tuna. For example it …
Cat back twitching, what does it mean? It signifies mild annoyance or irritation in my opinion. In this post, I am putting to one side the medical condition called ‘feline hyperesthesia‘. I am sure that a lot of cat owners have seen feline back twitching. From personal experience I see it rarely but it …
What do Siamese cats look like? We don’t know what the definitive Siamese cat looks like. This is a strange state of affairs. For all other breeds bar the Persian, we have a more or less definitive appearance of the cat and it is all written down in the breed standard but for the …
Martin was a much loved, friendly two-year-old cat when he died on the road. He had been adopted by the police officers of the NYPD 6th Precinct (Coney Island) after he had been abandoned on West 8th Street and Surf Avenue in December 2016 by a woman. Martin the cat was named after Officer …
