A Michael Broad Blog
Thanks in part to a submission by Alley Cat Allies as an interested third party but not directly involved in the case in question (State v. Kyles), the Ohio Supreme Court very recently clarified the law on cruelty to cats and indeed other companion animals by widening the definition of ‘companion animal’ as stated …
It seems that PETA are campaigning for more full-time indoor cats because of a ‘plague’ of ‘poisonings, shootings, burnings, and beatings’ of outdoor cats across the US. They want to abolish the concept of indoor-outdoor cats because it leads to animal cruelty. The quotes below and their video explains. I can’t watch these videos …
PERTH, AUSTRALIA – NEWS AND COMMENT: There has been a spike in cases of cruelty to cats and kittens in Perth’s northern suburbs, recently. The RSPCA reports an increase of 30% compared to last year in cat cruelty cases. I’m not going to show any pictures except for the picture of a cat painted …
SOUTH FLORIDA, USA – NEWS AND COMMENT: If you don’t mind, I won’t go onto great detail but Cheryn Smilen, 56, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after she starved cats that she had hoarded in her small apartment. She was a self-style cat rescuer. In truth she was a cruel cat ‘murderer’. As …
It is everywhere. Despite the many inspiring cat stories that emerge from the internet daily, if there is one topic which tends to dominate the news media with respect to cats and kittens it is cruelty perpetrated against these vulnerable companion animals. Today, as for all days, I did a quick search using Bing …
NOTIFICATIONS: (1) the cat is okay. I very reluctantly read this news item but fortunately discovered that the cat is okay and (2) the reporting is skimpy so I don’t have a lot of detail. Two teenagers in Dunkirk, France put a domestic cat in a microwave, turned it on and giggled. It was …
This is an interesting story about a man, Mark Heath, who is on trial for the murder of a 2½ year old child, Jacob Pelletier. He was alone with the child in an apartment when Jacob died. In his defence Heath alleges that Jacob’s mother hurt her son before she left for work and …
‘Insidious’ – proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects. Edmonton, USA: this is an example of what I would describe as insidious cat cruelty. It looks that way. It’s a phrase that I’ve just made up. In this instance somebody placed a tight elastic band around the neck of a …
