What affects us affects cats
This is happening in the UK. The RSPCA is investigating a claim that kittens are being bred as live bait for fighting dogs. It is difficult me to write about this but it needs to be aired. It needs to be publicised because it is horrific and people need to be aware of these …
An eight-year-old girl was videoed beating a puppy in Stephenville, Texas. All the evidence is there for a successful prosecution for animal cruelty under Texas animal welfare laws but the police were disinterested in the matter. The video went viral and a discussion started as to why the police are inactive on this. As …
Cape Hatteras Island is a long, skinny barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. It appears to be quite near where the well-known author about cats, Elisa-Black Taylor lives. She has written for PoC for many years. The mission statement of the Friends of Felines Cape Hatteras Island is to gradually and humanely …
This is excellent news despite the conclusion to this story. A series of brutal videos featuring the abuse of cats and dogs have been on the Chinese internet (the Chinese internet is censored so it is different to the Western internet) for a while. There are other aspects to the Chinese way of life …
December is supposed to be the most joyful month of the year as each of us celebrate the holiday in our own way. Unfortunately, many cats are paying the price with their lives because the person who was supposed to love them forever is either too lazy or too uninformed about cat behavior to …
When you watch the surveillance video you can see the woman sneak up to the veterinary hospital in her car and quickly walk up to the outside of the hospital and dump the cats before hastily returning to her vehicle. The cats are a mother cat and three kittens, estimated at 10 weeks-of-age. Of …
In the state of Virginia and in the county of Rockingham chaining up a cat permanently outside is not a crime. Therefore, in does not fall under one of the headings of animal cruelty under the laws of either Rockingham County or the state of Virginia. Do you think that this is correct? I …
In setting a precedent for other states, the legislators of Tennessee have decided that there are to be more certain consequences for harming animals. They decided that if somebody harms an animal they are going to pay for it. This is the best news that I’ve heard for quite a long time. Tennessee is …
