Hi, I am 70-years-of-age at 2019. For 14 years before I retired at 57, I worked as a solicitor in general law specialising in family law. Before that I worked in a number of different jobs including professional photography. I have a longstanding girlfriend, Michelle. We like to walk in Richmond Park which is near my home because I love nature and the landscape (as well as cats and all animals).
St. Petersburg, Russia: The Daily Mail reports that Ekaterina Kuraeva, 45, adopted a meerkat from Moscow Zoo six years ago because ‘she didn’t feel it was getting the care it needed’. In other words she performed a meekat rescue from … Continue reading →
On the BBC Newswatch television programme, hosted currently by Samira Ahmed, viewers called in and criticised the BBC Trending news article entitled ‘My boyfriend dumped me but how do I tell my cat?’ of 14th January. They said that it … Continue reading →
This is one of the few possibly genuine big cat sightings in Europe. So often they are domestic cats. There is an innate fear of cats which promotes many false big cat sightings. However, it is probable that the three … Continue reading →
I’ll cut to the chase as I have mentioned this study before but Michelle Starr of MSN has nicely picked out some key elements of a study into emotional bonding between cats/dogs and humans. These are interspecies friendships. The study … Continue reading →
Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA – News/opinion story: Damon Fields has the behavioural symptoms of a cat hoarder. In November 2019, he had 16 cats and a home that reportedly reeked so badly of pee investigators had to put … Continue reading →
The airline company Virgin Australia has banned flat-faced cats (and dogs) due to a spike in ‘issues across the industry’. Qantas suspended their animal service to flat-faced breeds in December 2019, as I understand it. They cite well known health … Continue reading →
On reading the Times newspaper on 27th January 2011, I learnt that the famous American author J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye) lived with two Russian Blue cats. What does this tell us about the man? Can we deduce … Continue reading →
A healthy kitten weighs about 3-4 ounces at birth. This is 100-125 grams. They should double their birth weight within 2 weeks. This is an average. Some modern cat breeds such as the Maine Coon and Savannah cat (F1s and … Continue reading →
In an interview between Alex West, a Sun journalist, and Luka Magnotta at the Fusilier Inn in London in 2011, Magnotta denied that it was him in the video killing two kittens. You can hear his voice and his denial … Continue reading →
A resident of Kalispell, Montana (or somewhere in the jurisdiction of the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office) telephoned the police to tell them that his neighbour had shot his cat and that the same person might have shot another neighbour’s cat. … Continue reading →
