Two women in Columbus County, North Carolina are banned from owning animals for the next six months after being charged with animal abandonment in September 2016. While this is a “dog article,” I feel it fitting to put on PoC, as this is what should happen to all of those found guilty of animal …
This is the story of Brewski, a beautiful little boy whose former owner decided her beer money was more important than this sweet baby and set off on Facebook to sell him to support her habit. Kristina Leigh fosters cats and kittens for the Anderson County Humane Society in Anderson, South Carolina. Brewski, a …
Ian Brady, who went on to become Britain’s most evil serial killer, was 10 years old when he killed for the first time. He threw a cat of the top of a tenement building in Glasgow, Scotland. Years later he told his lover and partner in crime, Myra Hindley, that the cat screeched all …
This is a follow-up to the article posted May 11 about the five dogs seized and four dead cats removed from the home of an NC animal advocate. None of this update is good news except the need being discussed for those in rescue to ‘police their own’ to prevent future tragedies. According to the …
This is your feel-good story for the weekend. A mother cat at a North Carolina shelter is credited with caring for a litter of newborn puppies. The sweet mama cat pictured above is currently in the care of Columbus County Animal Control. The Whiteville shelter staff received an emergency call asking for their help …
Yes, domestic cats should be fed small meals often. This mimics free-living cats. Free-living cats are opportunistic predators of small prey such as mice. They typically have frequent small meals throughout the day. They spend a large part of the day searching for prey. A study, Bradshaw & Thorn, 1992, concluded that cats with …
Twenty-five-year-old Mohd Amin Fuad Ramli, a fisherman, spends his spare time burying cats who have died on the streets. There appear to be many. Mohd cannot pass by and leave them there. I think he feels that it is undignified to leave the cats unburied and I think he is right. Apparently, though, according …
kfor.com reports a rather shocking story of the rapid death of a beloved cat, ‘Paw Paws’ in Oklahoma. Barbara’s husband noticed that their cat had a nasal discharge which contained a bit of blood. That must have set the alarm bells off. He asked his wife to have a look. They also noticed that …
