100% spay and neuter will cause problems

If 100% of the domestic cats in North America were spayed and neutered at all times, within a generation there would be no domestic cats on the continent. They’d only be feral and stray cats. I think that is an interesting thought (note: in practice there would be pedigree cats left as breeders are …

Read more

India Bans Animal Testing for Cosmetics

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.

Read more

Kittens Born Before Mother (Queen) is Spayed

This comment by Gabriel Altunel highlights a problem: Our little girl Cinnamon has given birth after the two months she’s been with us while we were trying to look for a spaying center. We are not thinking of giving them to a shelter, however, we will give them to compassionate cat lovers whom will …

Read more

Romanian Animal Welfare Sucks. Discuss

I have used an American slang term, “sucks”, to describe the situation with respect to animal welfare in a country that is part of the European Union. Members of the European Union should be in harmony on all matters including animal welfare. This is not the case and the politicians who run the European …

Read more

Neutering Cats

Neutering cats – Romanino, Scene of a cat castration, 1531-32, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento Photograph by Wikipedia® user:Laurom – license Contents: the arguments for the operations religion experimental appearance/behavior and cat shows Introduction – neutering cats The Neutering of cats refers to desexing either gender of cat. However, breeders use the term to refer …

Read more

Low Cost Spay and Neuter Clinics

Zonked female cat at spay and neuter clinic – Photo by Average Jane (Flickr) Low cost spay and neuter clinics provide a wonderful service because a lot of people who keep cats will resist spending money on veterinarian bills in these difficult times (2011). That said it is actually very cost effective to spay …

Read more

I Got Neutered By Furby

By Furby the Feral   Furby Resting After Surgery Hi everybody! It’s Furby again. I’ve had a REALLY busy week and I wanted to tell everyone about it. I’ve been recovering and taking it easy this week. I’m still mad as a kitten without catnip at everybody. I asked everybody MONTHS ago to please …

Read more

follow it link and logo