A Michael Broad Blog
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 government appeared to have seriously considered culling the entire population of domestic cats in the UK in order to prevent …
I think that it it’s time to redress the balance 😊. This awful tragedy has brought an incredibly shocking human death toll of 21,000 as at the date of this post with numbers climbing. We don’t know where it will end but I suspect considerably more than the current figure. By redressing the balance, …
The benefit in minimising coronavrius spread by keeping cats indoors is outweighed by other potential health issues.
Currently there is no evidence that companion animals can be a source of the virus. However, news.gov.hk (Hong Kong News) reports that a ‘third animal’ has tested positive for the virus in Hong Kong. They don’t clarify what the other two are. They may be referring to dogs. In the title have said that …
Clearly this applies to anyone but this is directed at cat owners buying online during the pandemic. I buy cat food from Amazon for instance and during Covid-19 it is almost the defacto norm to buy online. Millions of people are receiving millions of packages from Amazon and other delivery companies. Many cat guardians …
An interesting debate has opened up about whether the cure for the Covid-19 outbreak is worse than the problem itself. The question asked is whether the cure, which is essentially the economic shutdown of a country and for citizens to self-isolate, causes in the long term more deaths than the virus itself if only …
NEWS/OPINION FROM CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS CATASTROPHE: This is another story about how the novel coronavirus epidemic (pandemic?) is affecting cat companions in Wuhan, China. The virus has exposed some uncomfortable truths concerning the human to companion cat relationship in China. It is reported that when push comes to shove thousands of cat companions are being …
Australians have been trying to exterminate feral cats on Kangaroo Island with 1080 poison ejected from an evil device. The purpose? To protect precious Australian native species such as the endangered southern brown bandicoot which lives in the ‘under storey’. Now, bandicoot habitat has been destroyed by two fires which tore through the area …
