A Michael Broad Blog
This story of a Utah calico cat being transported to an Amazon returns facility in California with some men’s steel capped boots in a large cardboard box has some lucky bits such as the box being torn slightly which allowed the cat to breathe more easily which was important as the cat did nor …
This is a little note about the vulnerability of domestic cats when their owner goes away on holiday. A cat detective, Said Beid, in Italy who is currently searching for a chinchilla Persian who lives with a social media influencer, Nima Benati, said that he is busiest when cat owners go away on holiday …
The details on a microchip inserted into a cat or dog do not prove unquestionably that the person stated in those details is the legal owner of the dog or cat concerned. Although, the details provide good evidence that the owner is as stated in the microchip details. To stress, though, they are not …
NEWS AND VIEWS – SAN JOSE, UNITED STATES: Nathan Winograd has told me about a news item which is concerning to animal advocates. The NBC video covers it nicely. And the video mentions the problem with disappearing cats. Nathan Winograd summarises it nicely too: The recent sweep of a homeless encampment in San Jose …
NEWS AND COMMENT – THORNHILL, CUMBRIA, UK: This is one of those stories that comes to the surface occasionally. Up to 20 cats (believed 9 confirmed) have gone missing from a small village of just 915 residents. When that many cats go missing from a smallish area there has to be somebody who is …
The chart from All About Cats shows us which US states have the highest rate of missing domestic cats. It is quite interesting but the striking numbers from Rhode Island where the number of lost cats per 1,000 cat owning households is 11.45 and over 4 times the level of the next worse state, …
I think that some well-off people who want to purchase an F1 Savannah cat are being conned. They are being sold tame wild servals instead. And it is horrible. Below on this page, I have a good but distressing example from Aliff Syukri in which the serval (meant to be an F1 Savannah) is …
NEWS & VIEWS: Gemma Barbieri, a charity shop worker from Thetford, Norfolk, gave her daughter, Alicia, a black kitten, Rose, for her eighth birthday in 2007. In 2008, Rose went missing. They don’t know what happened to her but 13 years later Rose ended up at Cats Protection where she was scanned for a …
