A Michael Broad Blog
Patellar luxation is relatively uncommon in Abyssinian cats compared to other breeds, but it can still occur. The condition is not as frequently seen in Abyssinians as it is in larger breeds like Maine Coons. However, since Abyssinians are an active and agile breed, joint issues can occasionally arise, including patellar luxation, especially if …
Acid reflux (gastroesophageal reflux disease) affects about 20 percent of people in the US and is ‘fairly common in cats’ (wagwalking.com). Today for the first time I considered it as a possible illness in cats. The reason? I have the disease myself and it is damned annoying. If it is true that it is …
ANALYSIS: Dubai is in the UAE. There is a very beautiful and very large luxury development in Dubai which, as I understand it, has been built by Emmar and is managed by Emirates Living. It is luxury living for expats and other international purchasers. The development has everything that a resident needs. But the …
The famously violent ‘Lux the Cat’ may have been systematically abused by the man of the house causing Lux to become irredeemably, defensively aggressive. In the words of Lux’s owner at the time, Teresa: “It truly makes me wonder, looking back, if something else was going on when I wasn’t home; however I can’t …
This is an interesting and unusual cat rescue. It is probably unique. Fireman rescued a black and white cat from the bow of a luxury yacht in Alicante, Spain. It appears that the boat was in a boatyard, out of the water, being maintained or repaired. It makes me wonder whether the people involved …
Frank Ancona worked as a courier and in his spare time was the imperial wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His wife, Malissa Ancona, is a cat hoarder. She is also, allegedly, a fraudster in that she used cat rescue as a means to con money out of people. …
Yes, guess what, this story could only come out of the country where there are no animal welfare laws and where the ‘government’ have no intention of creating any. The story has China written all over it. The story comes from Chengdu in the southwest of China. I visited Bejing in 1971. It was …
The news that Luxembourg, a member state of the European Union (EU), is to introduce national legislation making it obligatory to micro-chip all cats indicates that the world is changing in respect of letting cats roam freely outdoors. This is possibly the first example of a nationwide law of this kind in the EU. …
