What affects us affects cats
This is a very unusual photograph of a relaxed, calm and indeed happy cat, surrounded by children who are petting and photographing him (or her). The photograph has been retweeted over 10,000 times and it has almost 30,000 likes (if you are into those sorts of statistics!). What interests me more is what the …
Australian officials are killing millions of feral cats in Australia by the bizarre method of air dropping poisonous, frozen sausages across the Outback. I presume only feral cats eat the sausages. Are they stamped with, ‘To Be Eaten By Feral Cats Only’? Do native species, the animals they want to protect, eat them too? …
The picture of Nancy, a largely white cat with her ear flaps surgically removed because of cancer, makes me wonder if cat owners are thinking sufficiently enough about applying feline sunscreen to their cat’s ears. This consideration may be more important nowadays if you believe in global warming and climate change. We had a …
A well-known Greenville County animal trapper has been charged with animal abandonment after he allegedly trapped several cats from a gated Simpsonville community and dumped them to fend for themselves. According to a Simpsonville police report, Johnny Bullington, who runs Critter Zappers, a pest control company, said five or six neighbors in the Cottages …
Cat owners type this into Google search: my cat is anxious what can I do? This has been covered many times before but as people are asking I’ll provide some guidelines in the form of easy starting points to get the ball rolling and to try and calm your cat. Provide hiding places in …
The title does not really describe what is happening on the ground in New Orleans, USA, outside a coffee shop. A tortoiseshell cat (female therefore), who is part of a group of cats owned by a person, likes to go the door of a coffee shop and wait. Her name is Squeak. She must …
My title is bold and perhaps unreasonably alarmist but experts say that there are more fleas around because they have survived the mild winter and are breeding sooner. In short, global warming is the cause of the rise in fleas (and other parasitic pests). I am writing about the UK where we are getting …
A St. Petersburg, Florida woman is devastated and says a termite control company is responsible for the death of her cat because they showed up earlier than the time agreed on in the contract. Caroline Stadler found termites in her new home and contacted Terminix about getting rid of them. She knew the most …
