What affects us affects cats
I love that there’s a remake of Pet Sematary, which will debut on April 5. For those horror fans (and cat fans) who don’t know this already, there were actually five cats chosen to play the role of Church in the remake of the Stephen King classic Pet Sematary. When I found the article …
There is a slightly bizarre, almost April Fool story on the Mirror.co.uk website only it is not April 1st.. The headline is, “Anti-vaxxers are refusing to vaccinate pets over fears they will become autistic” It is clearly a hyped up headline because most pet owners should know that there is no evidence that dogs …
This is awful. It’s been reported that the world’s first jaguar cub born through artificial insemination has been eaten by her mother two days after birth although there is some confusion over the cub’s death. The jaguar cub was born in San Paulo, Brazil in February 2019. We are told (Daily Mail) that her …
Organs-on-chips or organ-on-a-chip has the potential to dramatically reduce animal testing. If this comes to pass it will be a wonderful day for millions of animals and animal advocates. “This is the idea of replacing animals for drug testing with little micro-engineered devices…” – Don Ingber Human organs are recreated inside chips using human …
The old adage: dogs are servants to humans and humans are servants to cats explains why people spend more on dogs than cats. This is an interesting article on the theconversation.com website which helps explain why the veterinary bills for dogs is much higher than that for cats in America. This has been put …
This page is to (a) celebrate Hannah Shaw, a high profile rescue kitten advocate and rescuer and (b) to promote her desire that animal shelters expand or develop an active foster program to save the lives of rescue kittens who are particularly vulnerable at shelters. She says that shelters often don’t have the resources …
This is a further and final follow-up post in the saga of Joe Exotic’s trial for a federal murder-four-hire plot to kill Carole Baskin, the Big Cat Rescue founder, last year. His real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage. The online news media (and me!) can happily report that he has been found guilty as charged, …
Meghan Markle is 38 weeks pregnant at the date of this short post. That comes from a pregnancy expert on the parents.com website. There is a well-known domestic cat whose name is Phoenix who is able to make predictions! Phoenix predicted that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s baby will be a girl. The …
