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NEWS AND VIEWS: It has come to light in a Channel 4 interview involving Lord Bethell, the former deputy health minister from 2020-2021, that in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British...
China is engaged in Draconian anti-Covid measures which are cruel and bewildering to outsiders and animal advocates. They have a zero-tolerance strategy but that zero tolerance applies to cats and dogs but not people....
HARBIN, CHINA – NEWS AND COMMENT: This story is all over the Internet and I have written about it before. It is the first time that I have read a report online or in...
Another useful spin-off for the domestic cat from the coronavirus pandemic is Zoom conferencing. This form of remote conferencing which has proved immensely popular as a means to keep business going while maintaining social...
SUMMARY: Kim Jong-un has ordered the destruction of domestic and feral cats in North Korea together with pigeons because he believes that they spread the coronavirus while bringing it in across the border from...
Fear over coronavirus still leads cat and dog owners to abandon their animals. NEWS AND VIEWS: Governments have sometimes used fear tactics to drive their citizens to adhere to social distancing rules in an...
Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley disclosed to the media that one player asked for a kitten to play with during their 14-day quarantine ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. They made the request...
South Korea have their first feline coronavirus patient, a kitten at a missionary school in Jinju, South Gyeongnam Province where 100 people tested positive recently. The owner of the cat and her daughter tested...
I admire Boris Johnson for stating that traditional Chinese medicine is demented. He blamed this ancient medicine based on superstition without any science for unleashing the devastating coronavirus pandemic. And I agree with him....
NEWS AND COMMENT: This might be the first case of its kind. It may be the first time that a person has abandon their cats because of a fear that the cats might transmit...
COMMENT ON THE NEWS: I am speculating but I think it’s reasonable to do so. Are we going to have to inoculate our companion animals against Covid-19 in order to prevent mutations developing in...
The thing about domestic cats which is of interest to scientists is that they can become infected with Covid-19 but that they get over the disease very quickly and when they have the disease...
Scientists have come up with the conclusion that our companion animals, ferrets, cats and dogs are most susceptible to a coronavirus infection after humans but the truth of the matter is that cat lovers...
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Ruth Van Heel, 60, ran out of money because she decided to give up her job to enable her to look after her dying parents. In addition to that financial...
In England, UK cats and dogs are benefiting because smokers have been forced to re-evaluate their habit due to the coronavirus pandemic.
