It’s a Cat’s Life
This British cat story sums up the good and the bad, the misfortune and good luck that a cat can experience during her/his life. All the events are fairly typically, except one. The end...
Category: Injury
Cat With Missing Nose Gets Life-changing Operation
By Elisa Black-Taylor Nafas was only a year old when he was found last October, curled up under a car on a busy street in Tehran. A good Samaritan rescued the filthy cat, who...
Catnapper Receives Light Sentence After Allegedly Mutilating Cats
By Elisa Black-Taylor A Mesa, Arizona serial catnapper (cat thief) was sentenced August 14 for catnapping a cat named Biscuit, although he admitted to Judge Lue Sang he’d catnapped between 30-40 cats in his...
The Latest News For The Chester Fan Club
Chester has a few pages scattered around here on PoC but I thought it would be nice to have a new page with some of the old photos of him and also new ones...
Injuring Your Cat To Get Attention
Probably every experienced veterinarian in the UK has seen a companion animal that has been injured by the person who has brought the animal to the clinic – the person who stands before the...
Cat Trivia: Cat Terminal Velocity is 53 mph
God forbid that a cat falls from a high place but they do sometimes. Unsupervised cats on balconies can fall. People don’t believe they ever will. The further they fall, in some respects, the...
How do I care for my pet AFTER I declawed her?
How do I care for my pet AFTER I declawed her? This is a question asked by Libby, a visitor to PoC, who showed annoyance in her comment. I think her annoyance was misplaced...
Rehomed Rescue Cats – Kays Hill Animal Sanctuary
Nearly all of these thirteen successfully rehomed cats have been through very tough times. It is upsetting to read their stories before being brought to Kays Hill. Leanne of Kays Hill Animal Sanctuary kindly...
Militarization of Police a Danger to Pets
I’ll keep this short because it is a bit off-topic but relevant. Elisa Black-Taylor writes quite a lot about the behavior of the police in the USA. Elisa reports on incidents of police shooting...
Two Kittens Rescued From Car Engine Compartment Are Adopted
Cases of cats becoming trapped near car engines tend to make the news in the winter, when cats are trying their best to escape the cold. As it turns out, cats also try to...
Credit Card Policy Kills Cat
If an Arizona Humane Society had had a better or more flexible credit card payment policy a cherished cat would not have been euthanized (actually killed) by the Society. This mini-tragedy comes down to...
Speciesism? Cats vs Dogs in UK
Speciesism is about favouring one species of animal over another. It usually refers to favouring the rights of the human, homo sapiens, over other species. In this instance I am discussing what appears to be...
Cats killed on road are hit and run victims
A Swiss woman who has lost two cats on a local road (an autobahn) is calling for a law that fines and imprisons drivers who fail to stop and notify the police or who...
Pro Declaw, Cruel Not Crazy!
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra Some people are desperate to keep declawing legal! A face book friend has had a fiery debate with another friend (now an ex friend) because she asked her to sign...
Macabre: Throwing Kittens From Moving Cars
When you think about it, throwing kittens from moving cars is a macabre combination of car culture and treating animals as rubbish. How bizarre is that? It is a perversion of normal human behavior....
Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.