This is an important article. Many years ago, as a layman and not a scientist, I made the common sense point that feral cats could be useful to people and so did a visitor who called himself: DoctorM – see his short post. The feral cat could be our friend. I remarked that feral …
India is becoming Westernised. This is demonstrated in many ways including developments in respect of the relationship between citizens and companion animals. Recently, there was a first in the cat world: a cat show in India. There are purebred cats in India but they are yet to get a pedigree (a family history). They will in time when they might create a proper cat fancy.
The latest, extremely pleasing development in India is the banning of animal testing for cosmetics. It sounds obvious that animal testing by cosmetic companies should not happen but it was only totally banned recently in Europe. By “totally” I mean including banning the importation of cosmetics made with animal testing from outside the European Union as well as animal testing of cosmetics within Europe.
The domestic cat gets the blame for a lot of things that are totally undeserved. In fact you can’t blame the cat for anything because everything the cat does he does out of natural behavior in the environment in which he is placed by people. If people don’t like something the cat does they …
By Elisa Black-Taylor The Ohio Division of Wildlife is now being petitioned on the Change.com website to make the hunting (and shooting and killing) of feral kittens legal to hunters. You will see counter petitions too: Don’t Allow Hunters to Shoot Feral Cats. It is a contest on the internet, and decency is the …
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