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A kind person on the social media Reddit.com website has posted a question that has probably bothered many people. She is seeing a calico cat outside her apartment. The cat is out there for...
To answer the question in the title I am going to rely on a very substantial survey from the United States conducted in the late 1990s from the Regional Shelter Relinquishment Survey Study. It...
Is abandoning a cat illegal? Abandoning a cat is a form of cat abuse and it is being cruel to a cat both physically and quite possibly psychologically. Animal welfare laws protect cats from cruelty by people. Sometimes they specify abandonment as a cruel act and a crime. Therefore it is normally illegal to abandon a cat.
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: The Daily Mail newspaper online criticises councils in the UK for spending £1 million in two years (2020-2022) “caring for pets abandoned by owners in ill-health”. I would like to discuss...
On Reddit.com a person (Reddit username: u/DoctaEiffel) posted the headline Dumped at a shelter after 18 years because his family “didn’t want cat hair anymore,” now he lives in our sanctuary. Welcome, Pumpkin! It...
Brazil’s Island of the Cats is Brazil’s dirty feline secret but it is a secret no more because is a catastrophe in terms of animal welfare which need to be addressed urgently but decisions...
Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary founder and sole owner and operator, a gutsy, determined and committed women, Laurie Zaleski, vents her anger at the unknown person who secretively abandoned 21 cats outside her cat...
Sansa is a really gorgeous New York City snow-white domestic cat. She is a standout cat not simply because of her beautiful white coat but because she is polydactyl with six toes on each...
NEWS/VIEWS – THAILAND: My friend Barry who is married to a Thai woman and who visits Thailand frequently told me that it is not uncommon for Thai cat owners to abandon their unwanted cats...
There is an interesting post on Reddit.com by the child of a woman who, by the description of her behavior, matches the sort of character who is the cause of the feral cat problem...
The title comes from Fox 11 News. No doubt the author is being very cautious about making allegations of cat abuse because you don’t see cats ‘falling out’ of trucks. You only see cats...
This is a novel way to abandon a family of domestic cats. Two cats and three kittens were dumped in a cardboard box and left outside Luton and Dunstable University Hospital at about 8am...
“People who do these kinds of things are cowards. There’s so many rescues out there, there are so many shelters. There’s so many other options, just reach out. Social media has so many open...
Chesterfield, Virginia, USA: In highlighting the scale of cat abandonment in the county of Chesterfield, Va, Lynne Layton, the director of Smitty’s Cat Rescue Shelter, told 8News that people abandon healthy cats at her...
I have a feeling, having read news about American domestic cats for many years, that millions of unwanted cats are being “stored” in anonymous homes across the country. These are informal rescues completely off...
