What affects us affects cats
Are the Ipswich cat disappearances linked to an illegal trade in cat fur that is based in Belgium? I am speculating that the biggest cat welfare issue in the UK right now – the disappearance of over 100 cats from Ipswich and their apparent torture – is linked to an illegal market in cat …
For me this is double trouble human-style. The wrong-doers are people and the victims are – you guessed it – animals. Firstly, I think we (decent-minded people with a conscience) have decided that pet stores which sell pets should no longer exists because there are too many beautiful homeless cats needing a good human …
A animal hoarding situation is taking place in the town of Pompey, New York, which is in the Syracuse area. WSYR reported the story September 30. A video can be seen here (update 21st Oct 2016 – link broken – sorry). Unfortunately, this tragedy involves an animal control officer, Susan Snavlin, who is believed …
There is a war going on around stray and feral cats in the USA and elsewhere. On one side are the people, usually kind women, who want to do the right thing for stray cats and the right thing must be TNR while at the same feeding them or helping the cats in any …
Yes, shocking though it is, a 25 year-old bearded man is in custody for allegedly hacking off the heads of two cats that he tracked down before doing exactly the same thing to an 82 year-old woman, Palmira Silva, who I will presume for the time being was the owner of the cats (but …
When the Suffolk police were told by Mr Crawford that a dog had come into his front garden and savaged his cat to death, they passed the buck to the local authority’s dog warden (animal control) despite the fact that it was highly likely that a crime had taken place. The dog warden wrote …
A Spartanburg County, South Carolina woman is now out on $15,000 bond after being charged this week with the October 22, 2013 fire that destroyed parts of her home. The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department describes how Gina Campsen arranged to have her Chandler Downs Trail home in Boiling Springs set on fire. Back in …
There is a simmering undercurrent of loathing by cat haters directed at decent ladies who tenderly feed feral and community cats. It erupts into pure hate-filled violence from time to time. This is an example. This little vignette of violence concerns one of the icons of hero worship: the firefighter. They are a bit …
