Some suggestions on why cat and dog veterinary visits are higher during a full moon

Full moon dangers for cats?

A study from Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences found that during a full moon there is a slight increase in veterinary visits for cats and dogs which on the face might be considered a little puzzling but I have provided some suggestions. These were emergency veterinary visits and the …

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Dr. Heather Ashton’s benzodiazepine guide is the exit from benzo addiction and withdrawal hell

Dr. Heather Ashton's benzodiazepine guide

Dr. Heather Ashton’s benzodiazepine guide is the exit from benzo addiction and withdrawal hell. This is not about cats, which is pretty obvious but indirectly it possibly is because quite a lot of people are on benzos as prescribed by their GP because they suffer from the effects of anxiety in its various forms …

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Gay man’s boyfriend cares more for his cats than him

Can the spouse/partner who doesn’t particularly like cats accept the partner who loves cats and loves spending time with them?

Although this agony aunt story is about cats and an ailurophile (cat lover) who loves his cats it is actually about any relationship be it gay or heterosexual. It doesn’t matter. It’s about accepting the other person for what they are in their totality and if you can’t then the relationship won’t work and …

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Ready to de-clutter your wardrobe? Ready to get rid of your cat? Use Vinted!

Zara McDermott distraught at the advert on Vinted selling a tortie cat for 130 pounds

NEWS AND OPINION: Vinted is an app-based website through which you can de-clutter your wardrobe and get rid of those clothes you no longer want. In the modern world, clothes have quite a short lifespan. In the old days, days gone by, we kept clothes until they wore out and then we repaired them! …

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PETA push for full-time indoor cats by highlighting outdoor cat cruelty cases. This is half the story, though.

Keeping cats indoors is good for safety but there needs to be a concomitant effort to make their substitute indoor world interesting

It seems that PETA are campaigning for more full-time indoor cats because of a ‘plague’ of ‘poisonings, shootings, burnings, and beatings’ of outdoor cats across the US. They want to abolish the concept of indoor-outdoor cats because it leads to animal cruelty. The quotes below and their video explains. I can’t watch these videos …

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French pupils given primary school lessons to respect companion animals

Child loving their cat companion

About nine years ago almost to the day I wrote about the necessity of animal welfare being part of the school curriculum. I felt then as I do now that it is important that children are taught how to respect animals in general and perhaps in particular domestic cats and dogs because they are …

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