A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): I’ve always felt that the slightly utopian lifestyle painted by hikers and trekkers who go into the wild with their domestic cat on a leash is not all that it looks. I admire them tremendously and I am very happy for the cat because it looks like great fun. Personally, …
Biscuit went missing about three years ago, shortly after his then owner, Keith Bigland’s mother, died. Biscuit was seen “fleeing” his home on a CCTV camera at 4 a.m. on December 1, 2017. Mr Bigland searched high and low for him for months. The cat is his last connection to his mother. He was …
Giles Coren was let down by a veterinarian who did not notify him that he had found Coren’s lost cat after scanning the microchip and discovering that Coren was the owner.
CAT NEWS AND VIEWS: Ghislaine Maxwell’s rescue cat was injured and ran off when 60 armed FBI agents and police smashed down her front door and the door frame when they arrived at her house to arrest her. Her cat ran off in terror. Security staff and apparently lawyers spent four days looking for …
In Britain it is called ‘lamping’. Hunting dogs taken out at night to hunt with strong lamps directed at their prey, usually rabbits. On this Hull housing estate residents are saying that the prey is domestic cats. Reports are leaking out of the Greatfield Estate that cat companions are regularly going missing. For instance, …
Heidi Dalbec has offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the recovery her cat Dot who is very friendly and greatly missed: Dot is a VERY VERY friendly/outgoing feline. He is greatly missed. Brian Vieau stole her cat. Brian was delivering something (an auto part?) to her house, saw Dot and stole him. …
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, UK: nine-year-old Edward Webb couldn’t stop thinking about the family cat, Leo, when he went missing for three weeks. Edward says that Leo is like a brother to him. It seems that his parents recognised the close bond between their son and Leo (and how it was affecting him) and decided to …
This is a cat-escape-at-airport story (of which there are quite a few) and what caught my eye was that the cat, a tabby-and-white whose name is Cookie escaped his cage at Brisbane airport before being put on the flight to Cairns. It’s clear that the staff on the ground at Brisbane airport decided to …
