A Michael Broad Blog
By Danielle from Ark on the Edge Over the last 4 weeks here at Ark on the Edge rescue centre we have seen a massive increase in the number of elderly cats being adopted. To name just a few: Pod, a 16 year old stray, Suki a 10 year old female black cat, Leo and Barley 10 …
I’d love it, if someone adopted Tooty this weekend at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, London, UK. She is black and she is 15 years old. This is not a great start in the world of unwanted cats. Old age and the colour black are not considered attractive to adopters. Unwanted cats enter a …
By Marc ‘Clochette’ means a small bell like you might ring for servants at the dinner table, which is a great name in this instance. Clochette’s original owner owned a restaurant and he lived nearby. When he sold the business and moved with Clochette, she decided to return to the restaurant and make it …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Do some cats need to wear clothes? I’ve done a little research on this subject since I wrote my last article about cats wearing clothes. I used to be mistaken in thinking a cat only wore clothes because of the vanity of the owner to treat the cat as a dressed …
Grooming is advantageous to the domestic cat in a number of ways. It is important to the cat. That is why they groom a lot. Over-grooming should be investigated though. Cats groom themselves for up to a third of their waking hours. They will groom several times in a day. Bearing in mind that …
I was at the club the other playing Scrabble with some friends. Sounds cosy doesn’t it? Sometimes I do activities other than working on the website you know ;). Anyway, a friend of mine, an old gentleman, said he wanted to get a cat again. He’d had a cat years ago and missed him. …
Have any of our visitors experienced the situation when their cat walks out of their home and never comes back? Heartbreaking stuff. Why does it happen? How often does it happen? It would be very difficult to deal with because a caring cat owner would not know what happened. It is the loss of …
By Elisa Black-Taylor When I heard the name of this contest, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or take it seriously. As it turns out, I’m doing both. Mainly because I love the idea of a contest geared toward the older pet. We see enough contests asking people to send in photographs of their …
