What affects us affects cats
This is a new departure in cat cruelty. Somebody has used two different, permanent marker pens to colour in the white fur on the face of two black-and-white kittens. It is as if they were trying to fill in the blank spaces in one of those painting by numbers toys. You would have thought …
Petitions do work….sometimes. At one time I thought they didn’t. This is a notable success. This is not hot-of-the-press news but interesting information nonetheless. Both myself and Elisa have written about this before as has Robyn Gianotti. At one time, training medical students could involve cats (has this totally stopped in the USA?). Perhaps …
Due to numerous concerns that escalated last week with the critical injury of a cat named Cooper, a Change.org petition calling for the firing of Rowan County Control (Salisbury, North Carolina) Director Clai Martin commenced March 13. I’m including three links following this article offering more information on this situation because it’s too much …
This is a very short note to which I’ll add some detail later if possible. Corrections will also, no doubt, be made. I am trying to get a head start on news concerning companion animals. I have heard that pet food containing “rabbit” is to banned or there are proposals that it be banned …
Cruelty to animals is a serious crime. Whether it’s a cat, dog, horse, pig or any living creature treating them inhumanely is an atrocity. It is up to us to protect all animals and to help prevent them from suffering. But what makes my blood boil is hearing about people who work with animals …
This is a mystery. It is happening in England, specifically Stroud in Gloucestershire, which is in an area called the Cotswolds. For some bizarre reason, somebody is snatching cats from the street and shaving the fur off the cat in a series of random attacks. The RSPCA is investigating. Some of the cats have …
Martin Clunes, the well-known British actor who stars as Dr Ellingham in Doc Martin, has weighed in to try and help solve the series of crimes dating back to 2008 of the mutilation and death of, primarily, cats but also other animals in the Croydon area of London. Clunes has written a letter to …
It always surprises me when I read about abandoned purebred cats to the point where they are wandering the streets alone in real danger and scavenging for food. They might be doing this for a long time. In the case of this particular Chinchilla Persian cat, who has been named Penelope by staff at …
