What affects us affects cats
A TERRIFIED cat was delivered to a pet shop with its legs tied up and wrapped in a plastic bag by an owner who was upset the kitten had grown. The most common question a pet shop assistant is asked is. “Will it grow?” Shocking isn’t it? The ‘problem’ of pets growing (it’s a …
It’s takes a low-down person to surrender their cat saying “we just don’t want her anymore.” That’s what a cat owner did last week at a North Carolina shelter (writes Elisa Black-Taylor for Examiner.com) People who surrender their cat at an animal shelter should be asked standard questions and the answers logged onto a …
This is a UK cat cruelty story, which adds a variation to the “throw-the-cat-out-of-a-moving-car method of feline abandonment. We all know the classic method: place kitten in a cardboard box drive down road, usually, a road on which there is fast moving traffic throw box with kitten inside out of the passenger seat window …
This is not about the domestic cat but it is about animals. Our relationship with animals is indirectly about cats so I hope people will be patient with me. We have all heard about captive killer whales entertaining people. The best-known organization is SeaWorld in San Antonio in Texas, San Diego in California and …
These are the most notorious cat cruelty cases I know of from being involved in web searches and posting articles over eight years. They are also the most sinister and gruesome. There is something of a horror movie quality about them. I think of psychopaths and serial killers when I think of these examples …
This is about a trusted 19 year old house guest who had been staying at the Clowards’ home for 6 months. His name is Jordan Linquist. There are two cats in the family. Shadow who is black and another cat we don’t know much about. Shadow was so badly tortured by the ‘nice’ house …
The picture is of 22-year-old Stacey Dick. She lives in Cumbria in the North of England. She starved four cats to death and totally neglected them in every way possible over months. She pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to four cats (she had no choice but to plead guilty). She has been jailed …
I don’t think you will see a better example of idiotic cat ownership. This American woman apparently thinks it is a good idea to tie her calico cat to the hood (bonnet in the UK) of her car and then drive the car around town with her husband in the passenger seat. No doubt, …
