What affects us affects cats
In Mississippi a homeowner can kill a stray cat entering their home or land. There is a sloppy piece of drafting in Mississippi’s cruelty to animals legislation, which allows a person to legally kill a cat that might enter a person’s home through a cat door (cat flap) or anywhere on the person’s land. …
The pictures sums it up. A woman studying English at a Taiwan University makes a big mistake when she posts, on Facebook, a photo of her cat that she had stuffed into a large plastic jar with the caption that she was punishing her cat for some innocuous, meaningless reason. Rightly so, there was …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Jiggles is a two year old male cat who resides in the Marietta area of upstate South Carolina. Early in December, his pet parents experienced what every owner of a cat who ventures outside fears. Jiggles went outside to use the bathroom and never returned home. His family searched for him …
By Elisa Black-Taylor This is the story of Elizabeth, a cat from South Carolina who was thrown into an open fire by a 13 year old boy. Her owner’s were unable to keep her after this horrific crime was committed, and turned her over to the Darlington County Humane Society Rescue (DCHSR). Forgive the …
This is about dog attacks on cats and the law – late 2013. It is written in plain English that is easy to understand so it is for kids as well as their parents. It is against the law to let a dog become out of control and dangerous so that it attacks and …
I would like, briefly, to write about an excellent and specialist service provided by Cats Protection in partnership with Dogs Trust. It operates in Greater London, Hertfordshire and Yorkshire. It is called the Dogs Trust Freedom Project. [Note to international visitors: this is a UK based initiative]. We hear a lot about domestic violence. …
Cops are meant to be the servants of society. They prevent guys doing wrong. Nowadays, I sense that there is a tendency for the police to also prevent decent people doing right. This drift in standards affects animals detrimentally because they are the most vulnerable in society. Cats have been caught up in this. …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra ‘The Hunting Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which bans the hunting of wild mammals (notably foxes, deer, hares and mink) with dogs in England and Wales; the Act does not cover the use of dogs in the process of flushing out an unidentified …
