A Michael Broad Blog
In one town in New Zealand, Timaru, 50 cats have gone missing we are told. Eighteen have disappeared in the past 18 months. The interesting and rather strange aspect of this story is that some of the women owners believe that a certain woman is involved in the disappearance but the police have investigated …
This is an interesting and strange story about a person who was asked to sit in and look after a cat and a dog while the cat and dog owners were on holiday on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is, actually, a very unfortunate story because the cat sitter had …
To anyone with common sense this story seems bizarre. Mrs Khalid recently lost her ginger-and-white male cat of 11 years of age, Sherekhan, when he was hit by a car. He was found by the side of the road. Unfortunately his body was not found by her owner, Mrs Khalid, but by a contractor, …
Recently I wrote about the abduction of a British shorthair cat in London which led to a ransom payment of £1000 by the owner. The question at the time was whether the criminal involved was acting in a casual, ad hoc manner on the bases of good fortune in that he had bumped into …
This is an interesting story with a legal connotation but it is not complicated. It took place in South Salem, America. A lady, Janice Claflin, owns a grey, tabby-and-white, female, indoor/outdoor cat, Ziva. She is micro-chipped. Janice is known at the Willamette Humane Society and has done some voluntary work there. One day Ziva …
The owner of an escaped pet serval says that her cat is a two-year-old Savannah cat. In my honest opinion she is not telling the truth about her cat because the cat in the pictures is not a Savannah cat but a serval. They can look similar if the Savannah is a first filial …
This is an astonishing story of a geriatric cat of 18-years-of-age going on a 128 mile walkabout from his home in North Wales to a town near Leeds in the North of England. His name is George and he is a tabby-and-white cat. In between his home in Llanrwst and Brighouse (where he turned …
