A Michael Broad Blog
There has been a lot of discussion over recent years about cat ownership restrictions and obligations as required under possible new laws. The classic one is confining cats to their owner’s home to protect wildlife. This occurs in parts of Australia and another might be limiting owners to a set number of cats. They …
A recently published study “Six types of loves differentially recruit reward and social cognition brain areas” explores how different types of love activate different parts of the brain. Researchers found that various forms of love, such as romantic love, love for friends, love for pets and love for family, involve different brain regions. These …
This is a lovely example of: Gwen, 84, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK, retired from her full-time job as a cleaner at a local school four years ago. She is recovering from a stroke. She has a limited budget which is being squeezed in the UK in various ways including what was inflation until recently …
The cost of energy to heat one’s home and with which to do one’s daily tasks such as cooking, is becoming prohibitive in the UK. A lot of people are turning off their heating or turning it down and wearing several layers of clothes instead, inside their homes. The cost of day-to-day living, for …
You may know that Lily Allen relinquished her rescue puppy ‘Mary’ (said to be a Maltipoo but I am not sure about that) to the shelter from where she adopted the dog because Mary destroyed her passport and the passports of her children because she was left alone and suffers from separation anxiety causing …
You can read lots about the benefits of a commercially available cat pheromone called Feliway®. It must be the most widely used commercially available product on the market to help calm cats in a multi-cat environment or perhaps in a home where there are one or two cats and one is “misbehaving”. And it …
This picture of cats interests me 😱👍😃. Because it is unusual; very unusual I’d say. So, what can be say about it that is also of interest!? Well, it is so unusual as to be….fake? 😱 Interesting points to note. Note: these cats are ‘autogrooming’. A bestiary is a type of medieval manuscript that …
A stated this is personal but I expect something similar from any decent cat caregiver. There has to be some cons if we are realistic. For me, right now, the biggest con is that I feel anchored. Stuck and unable to travel freely because my cat is bonded to me; I am imprinted on …
