Idaho state trooper dives flat out to catch an escaping cat

State trooper acts rapidly and vigorously to catch cat escaping from the back of a van he had stopped on the I-90, in Idaho

I think this video deserves a bit more publicity which is why I’ve decided to cross post it as some people will have missed this good cat news story. What is good about it is that we see an Idaho state trooper i.e. a policeman in European language, taking a fully committed dive onto …

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Heroic effort to evacuate lions and tigers from Ukraine to Poland during Putin’s invasion

Lion and tiger cubs - part of the group of zoo animals evacuated from sanctuary near Kyiv to Poland

NEWS AND COMMENT: The Save Wild sanctuary east of Kyiv decided to evacuate after Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine nine days ago. They decided to take six lions, four tigers, two caracals and an African wild dog to the border with Poland. It turned out to be a heroic and traumatic journey both for the …

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Myrtle Beach animal shelter imported unregulated drug from China to treat FIP

Riley ruled the roost in the office area of our Joe White Ave shelter

The Grand Strand Humane Society is an open admission animal shelter which takes in animals from Myrtle Beach, a city on the east coast of the USA. News media (Myrtle Beach SC News) has reported what I would call an uproar among people connected to the shelter and perhaps to a certain extent within …

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Anti-animal UK government civil servants lied about evacuation of cats and dogs from Kabul

Nowzad staff made it out of Kabul to Pakistan and then to the UK where some will train to be vets

NEWS AND COMMENT: I stress that this is my opinion on the news. But I’m driven to have these views which are as objective as I can make them. You may remember the highly publicised evacuation of cats and dogs from the Nowzad animal charity in Kabul. Mr Pen Farthing ran the charity. He …

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Whistleblower’s claim of direct trade-off between animals and people evacuating Kabul is wrong

Raphael Marshall

Raphael Marshall, a whistleblower in the Foreign Office (since resigned), claimed that there had been a direct trade-off between the evacuation of Mr Farthing and his animals and the evacuation of Afghans who were at risk. He’s basically saying that Mr Farthing’s animals prevented some Afghanis who had the right to be evacuated to …

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Toxic work environment inside a palatial building at Seattle Humane

Seattle Humane

The Seattle Times has lambasted a glossy animal shelter: Seattle Humane, for not carrying out the promises that they made when raising $30 million to build what they describe as a palatial shelter on three floors, the largest non-profit animal shelter in the Puget Sound region. Nathan Winograd has picked up on The Seattle …

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Cat rescuer threatened by man who hoarded cats but she saved them

Michelle Page and colleagues protest to get the authorities interested in rescuing hoarded and abused cats at Catmando's home. It worked.

GAINSBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE, UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: This article is about the culmination of a huge struggle by animal rescuer, Michelle Page, of Page’s Pet Rescue, and her colleagues in trying both to save the lives of cats hoarded by a delusional (in my view) individual who calls himself “Catmando” and to try and …

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Taliban shoot two dogs belonging to Dave, a friend of Pen Farthing

Pen Farthing and his wife Kaisa Markhus back in safety

NEWS AND COMMENT: Former British Marine Pen Farthing has recounted his experiences now that he’s back in the UK with the animals he so successfully evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan. Previously he had said that the Taliban would ban dogs but accept cats. I wrote about that statement. Of course, he has first-hand experience of …

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