NEWS AND VIEWS: As I buy The Times daily, I know of Carol Midgely. As well as being a columnist for The Times she occasionally helps out at her friend’s animal rescue charity. That’s nice. It tells me that she is a decent person. She went to the home of a recently deceased elderly lady …
Award-winning journalist badly hurt by a domestic cat she was rescuing Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT (Opinion): Will you be as disgusted as I am having read this article? I hope so as it is a failure in child care and inherently cruel. It is about asking kids to engage in potentially criminal activity. It is that bad. The North Canterbury Hunting Competition of New Zealand has been …
New Zealand’s junior school kids love to shoot cats for prize money Read More »
We know that Putin is obsessed with looking like a macho man. It is part of his attempts to look like a strong, imperialist leader. And he has taken many opportunities to polish this image such as riding horseback topless and playing with big cats. He’s said to be an animal lover but is very …
Putin’s PR stunt with a Siberian tiger caused the tiger’s death Read More »
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN-NEWS AND COMMENT: The story is summed up in the title. A man, James Daniels, was on bond for a charge of first-degree recklessly endangering safety while armed. He had signed a bond which prohibited him from having any weapons. He brought a handgun to a Kenosha apartment complex. In an apartment there were …
Woman using a handgun’s laser sight to play with a cat shoots a man accidentally Read More »
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): the story comes from Middletown, USA and is told in the video just below this paragraph by Steve Mago. He tells it movingly. He and his family loved this gray cat who they found in his detached garage and adopted him. They named him Mush and they loved him perhaps partly …
Middletown family’s domestic cat mistakenly euthanized Read More »
EDMONTON, CANADA: You may remember this case from spring 2018. It was quite high profile at the time and was treated as a serious event by the Humane Society resulting in Mariah Berini being charged with causing or permitting animals to be in distress under the Animal Protection Act and failing to provide adequate food …
The picture says it all. This is a box of cat food in which there are pouches (sachets) of wet cat food. Sally Higgins purchased the it from a local supermarket in Bingham which is 9 miles east of Nottingham in the middle of England. As soon as she opened the cardboard box she immediately …
Horror wet cat food pouches in box infested with flies Read More »
SPAIN – NEWS/OPINION: It’s been reported that local authorities governing the Costa Del Sol and Costa Blanca areas have sprayed disinfectant solutions against the coronavirus whilst apparently being unaware that it is highly toxic to dogs, cats and other wildlife. Is it also dangerous to humans? It almost certainly is. It’s been reported that some …
Spring, Texas, USA (Houston area): ABC13 reports a terrible animal hospital accident which is heartbreaking for the cat’s guardian and difficult to read for a cat lover. Michelle Olson and her husband had picked up their cat Sophie from the Suburbia North Animal Hospital in Spring, Texas after taking her in for a routine checkup …
Vet injects cat with euthanasia drug instead of rabies vaccine Read More »
Was this animal shelter trying to reduce euthanasia rates when they put a dying female feral cat through unnecessary surgery and returned her to the streets? Nob Hill, Albuquerque, USA: Days before Thanksgiving this year, a woman, Tamara, saw a female stray cat who looked very poorly and old. She felt she had to do …
Thirty cats from the Dothan Animal Shelter who survived the shocking attack by two dogs from the same shelter who forced their way out of their cage killing 29, are being shipped out (or have been relocated already) to the Northeast Ohio SPCA No-Kill Pet Shelter in Palma. I am told that the cats will …
Cat survivors of the deadly dog attack at Alabama shelter relocated to Ohio shelter Read More »
A veterinary clinic in South Australia accidentally euthanized a purebred, AU$1,500 Bengal cat registered with the veterinary clinic, micro-chipped and registered on a national database. The owner couldn’t have done much more to establish that the cat was domesticated, socialised and belonged to her. She had ticked the boxes but unfortunately her cat escaped from …
Veterinarian accidentally euthanized Bengal cat and asked owner what urn she’d like Read More »
The title does not really describe what is happening on the ground in New Orleans, USA, outside a coffee shop. A tortoiseshell cat (female therefore), who is part of a group of cats owned by a person, likes to go the door of a coffee shop and wait. Her name is Squeak. She must want …
Tortoiseshell cat branded a liar and barred from coffee shop Read More »
Firstly, like all others I am very saddened to hear of the loss of four loved pets, two dogs and two cats but I feel compelled to ask questions, to learn lessons. How could this happen and I don’t mean the cause of the fire? Fire can start with no one at home as was …
Four companion animals lost in house fire. No escape route? Read More »
Being a passionate advocate of animal welfare and particularly the people involved in animal welfare including of course animal shelters, it is galling to see pledges totally one billion euros from Europe’s super rich to repair and rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral when there are thousands of other more worthy causes. We are down to the …
Notre Dame burning = €1 billion in 24 hours. Animal shelters, animals dying = €0. Read More »
