Wild Trade Busted: Spain Cracks Down on Exotic Cat Smuggling Ring.
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Internet hackers use Bengal cats to steal your financial details
AVOID websites answering the question “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” If you search for “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” you may find yourself clicking on Google search result which takes you to a website which has been created by malware hackers. The site that you visit may download malware (poisonous software) to …
INFOGRAPHIC ON: ‘Today a female cat has more freedoms than a woman [in Afghanistan]’. Meryl Streep.
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This is a very important topic. We can thank Meryl Streep for raising it in a viral social media video, which is published (embedded) within the Infographic on this page which I prepared. You play the video by clicking on one of 2 play buttons. It is a great video ππ. She was speaking …
Cat returned to his owner four days after his cremation. There are 3 aspects to this story.
The amusing cat news today, which has been well covered by the media online, is that a black-and-white cat called Ted, returned to his owners four days after his cremation π. Ted’s caregiver is Nicci Knight. She was on holiday in Turkey when a neighbour told her that Ted had been found dead in …
Hybrid rooster, Weirdo, killed two cats and took a dog’s eye out
This is a weird story about a weird rooster called ‘Weirdo’ who was specifically bred by a farmer, Grant Sullens, as a hybrid to be better able to withstand cold weather but turned out to be very large and heavy – the heaviest chicken as per Guinnness Records – and who according to reports …
Google Scholar embarrassed by cat’s high academic achievements
Google Scholar must be embarrassed by news that two guys managed to submit nonsense academic papers ostensibly written by a cat called Larry which was cited by others and which led to Larry being ranked higher academically than real academics! The guys who organised this have exposed, they believe, a flaw in the highly …
Scientist proposes a ‘lunar ark’, a vault on the moon, to store frozen samples of endangered animals (infographic)
This story is both interesting – particularly if you are interested in science – and concerning. It might even be very worrying to some people. The lead author of this report, Mary Hagedorn, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian institution in Washington DC, has suggested that initially the frozen tissue of endangered animal species …
CCTV shows landlord shooting his tenants’ cat while they’re on vacation
Click this to see the screenshots. Warning: it is unpleasant but all you see is the landlord with a hand gun pointing at the cat. You don’t see the cat. I won’t show the video as Google does not like them (and I hate them). But I believe people should be aware of these …
