NEWS AND OPINION: This bizarre story is doing the rounds on news media online. The overriding aspect of it is the mystifying motivation of the central character in the story which occured at an animal shelter in south-east Melbourne, Australia. … continue reading…
NEWS AND COMMENT: There appears to be an army of cat loving, kind and decent women living in Moscow and the suburbs who are concerned about the welfare of the city’s large stray cat population. During winter the temperature in … continue reading…
COMMENT: The story is not what it looks like in the title. But it is not far from the truth. A couple, Christopher Brown, 33, and Daisy Bow du Toit, 31, live in an apartment at Hampton Court. It’s a … continue reading…
NEWS AND VIEWS: I was unsure what all this meant until I did a bit of research. I’m still not completely sure as the language is alien to me. The Million MAGA March was a protest march against the presidential … continue reading…
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): As an insider I can see a gradual breakdown in society in the UK. People disrespect the country’s institutions including the police. The police have lost the respect of the people as have the politicians and … continue reading…
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Justin Bieber and his Savannah cats are in the news again. It’s not the kind of news that he would welcome. It highlights two things in my mind about Justin Bieber and his wife and their … continue reading…
HARBIN, CHINA: The video shows a domestic cat fallling from what appears to be a block of flats above shops. The cat must have fallen quite a distance which begs some questions about the quality of cat caretaking. However, the … continue reading…
To varying degrees, governments have confined citizens to their homes or restricted their movements throughout the coronavirus pandemic and this has encouraged people to adopt kittens and puppies. They want the added companionship and they think that they have extra … continue reading…
Campbell, N.Y.: 79-year-old Howard Marshall’s house caught fire because of an electrical fault at the centre of the house. He escaped the fire. Soon afterwards, he ran back into his burning home to save his beloved cat. Firegfighters from six … continue reading…
NEW AND VIEWS – WIGAN, UK: It is reported that 10 cats have vanished from a neighbourhood of Wigan over a four-week period and that some of them have turned up in good health roaming around a grade II listed … continue reading…
Poland: a former soldier has gone on the run with his puma (mountain lion or cougar) after zoo officials turned up at his house on Friday to take the cat from him. He threatened the officials with a knife and … continue reading…
I guess were not going to know the true effect that the coronavirus pandemic has had on feral cat population numbers until well into the future but the story from South Texas hints at a possible problem. We know that … continue reading…
This is a story which highlights what I believe is quite a common situation on social media. On occasion there can be an underlying level of aggressive commenting on social media and an eagerness to criticise. This is dangerous because … continue reading…
I thought the news was quite shocking, really, but in an interview with an author on the Insider.com website Baskin said that she might not be able to reopen her sanctuary to the public once we get back to normal … continue reading…
NEWS/VIEWS – KENTUCKY, USA: This is not the sort of news you want to hear about an animal ‘shelter’; a euphemistic word which is often abused. Randy Skaggs, 68, owns and runs Trixie Foundation animal shelter. Police used a search … continue reading…
