A Michael Broad Blog
I have to write about the biggest story in town: the Ukraine invasion – Putin’s mad plan. Putin has said that his invasion of Ukraine is going to plan despite the fact that to outsiders it looks as if it is not going to plan because his troops are bogged down and Ukraine is …
Stepan is your average tabby cat who’s become a social media star. I like that. The ordinary can become the extraordinary. He became a successful animal influencer during the Covid pandemic rising to international prominence as cat lovers related to his videos of parties during long spells of social distancing. It was the era …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme has generated a lot of excitement both for refugees and homeowners. I have read that there is a Facebook frenzy of homeowners posting photographs and descriptions of their home to promote it as an ideal sanctuary for a refugee. There appears to be competition among …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Note: ‘tin’ is short for ‘tin can’ in old English usage. Are you like me? Completely disgusted, dismayed, disenchanted, shocked and fed up with the behaviour of Vladimir POO TIN? Do you always carefully collect your dog’s poo and place it in the POO TIN? All responsible dog owners should and …
Our hearts are broken and I become tearful when I see the torture that Putin inflicts upon Ukrainian civilians and their companion animals. Brave Ukrainian refugees carrying their companion animals in their arms and sometimes in a carrier must be let into the UK without checks. And once they are in the UK those …
Dima, a software engineer, living with his wife, Tetiana, and their two cats, Scotty and Pixie, provides us with an intimate description of their escape from the Ukraine’s capital Kyiv when the bombs started to crash nearby. He first heard the sounds of bombs exploding on the morning of February 24, 2022. He was …
There is no need for refugees to abandon their companion animals when leaving Ukraine. We know that many Ukrainian women are fleeing with their companion animals and their children. They make their way to adjacent countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. They struggle to get to these borders often carrying a cat or …
Steve Lucas’s wife, Anastasia, 51, lives in a Kyiv apartment with her cat Lucky. This is the capital of Ukraine, the prized target of the Russians who have invaded the country because Putin believes that Ukraine should be part of Russia. And in achieving that objective he is destroying the country and killing innocent …
