What affects us affects cats
The Oriental SH is known for slenderness and long legs and, yes, large ears but this strange looking individual has really odd ears. The breeders have altered the anatomy of this cat to the point where the the animal looks unlike a cat as we know it. I know breeders want to take selective …
Marcy Britton, described as an ‘animal welfare activist’ says that TNR (trap-neuter-release of feral cats) has turned her property into a feral cat colony. She says that it does more harm than good and her home has lost value. “It’s a gruesome, inhumane, illegal, thing to do to any animal…” The city of Albuquerque …
You may have picked up on the claim by a couple of Dutch professors that European Union laws prevent cat owners allowing their cats to go outside except on a leash. The scientists’ argument is that free-roaming outside cats damage wildlife, particularly birds – the old, classic argument that we hear a lot. Incidentally, …
Susan Thixton on her website ends one of her articles with the sentence: “Is FDA protecting their friends in pet food again?” She knows the business inside out and she is alleging that a government agency, the FDA, lacks integrity and is working with, in this case, Hills Pet Food to protect the manufacturer. …
A Stratford, Ontario teen who was arrested earlier this year and convicted of animal cruelty will possibly be spending time in jail after breaching terms ordered by a judge. The teen will go back to court in January after breaking a court order not to have or live with animals Austin English, 19, posted …
My cat does this all the time. Does yours? When I am about to pet him by stroking the side of face and down his shoulder and on to his flank, he leans towards me as if he is placing a bit of resistance to my stroking before I have commenced. He likes it …
Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou) tweeted today, one hour ago, that he is in the City of Cats. In the photograph he is standing in front of a large mosque. I think it is the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, a city dubbed the City of Cats and sometimes referred to …
This is a novel way to abandon a family of domestic cats. Two cats and three kittens were dumped in a cardboard box and left outside Luton and Dunstable University Hospital at about 8am on November 25 (last Monday). A hospital worker spotted them and immediately contacted the RSPCA who sent around an inspector …
