What affects us affects cats
I apologise if this is slightly depressing. I don’t want to add to the problem. I am keen to produce happy, upbeat stories about the domestic cat and wild cat species. However, I have to be realistic and present what I see before me in terms of news and informative articles. A recent story …
A good man sees a tiny tabby-and-white kitten at the side of the road. He stops his car and the kitten comes over asking to be rescued. He accepts the request and picks up the kitten. Immediately he does so the mates of the rescued kitten came out of the undergrowth from the forest …
Johnny Depp visited Folly Wildlife Rescue, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom, yesterday. While he was there, he was allowed to enjoy the rare privilege of briefly holding Freddie (named after Freddie Mercury) one of the many orphaned badger cubs that the charity is hand rearing. Johnny Depp, they say, was bowled over by the whole …
This rescue cat jumps for joy from his cage into the arms of a shelter employee. As it was videoed in slow motion on a smartphone, it is certain that this ginger tabby does it every time his cage is opened. It was predicted which allowed the video maker to be prepared. And it …
You may be familiar with Bell, a female ginger tabby, who in a video from the Gaston County Animal Care and Enforcement Shelter is shown to be the last cat at the facility (see link below). Many readers of the story were heartbroken to see this timid female cat creeping out from under a …
Today I’d like to talk about the cats of 9/11. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the worst day in American history during my lifetime, I’d like to remember the cats who were at Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks when terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers. Note: this page has been …
You might not have heard of the words. I certainly hadn’t until today. They are “gentling” and to be “gentled”. Gentling is the action of stroking a cat gently and talking to them equally gently. It is the kind of thing that a rescue centre worker would want to do naturally because it is …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is Smurf. The rescue people don’t know why he was dyed blue but they have suggested – and it is a reasonable suggestion – that he was prepared for dog bait. You may know that illegal dog fighting groups sometimes take cats from the street and dye them different colours …
