What affects us affects cats
This is about declawing cats again. Please forgive me but this is a timely moment with the release of the new Paw Project movie. I want to find a way to stop the cruelty (for me) of declawing. For an American veterinarian, declawing cats is about profit and loss. It is about hard business. …
There were just 200 cats in Guyana in 20071. Guyana is not a small country. It is 83,000 square miles in size. The UK is 94,000 square miles. There were almost 7 million domestic cats in the UK in 2007. The difference is stark, weird and it makes me think, why? Venezuela, Guyana’s neighbour …
To regulate, through laws, cat ownership or not. That is the question. View Larger Map This is a radical change in policy on how cat owners should keep cats. Whereas in most places there is little or no regulation in the form of local laws as to how people should keep their cats and …
The weirdest little giflike video you’ll see this week, I reckon. Cat abuse? Yes, it has to be. No idea where is was done or why. Looks like Russia in the 1950s to me. I will guess that the reason they put cats under zero gravity was because they know that cats always self-right …
Some police officers believe it is the most humane thing you can do, to place an injured animal at the target end of a firing range and to use him/her for target practice. It sounds disgusting and astonishing but that apparently is what some coppers who are part of the Merced police actually believe. …
Introduction to Mums and Dads Children are the future. The future should be better than the present. We owe an obligation to the domestic cat to make sure that things improve for the cat in the future. In households where there are domestic cats, parents have an obligation to educate their children about how …
16th Sept 2013 — We read that Iran plans to send a Persian cat into space as a follow up to sending a monkey into space. We don’t know if this is all a public relations exercise to sharpen up the public profile of a country that is largely disliked in the West or …
Cat companions provide real benefits for the elderly. This article is based on a study carried out in the Netherlands in 19941 with some of my thoughts thrown in for good measure. The participants were mainly women and the ages were in the range 70-81. They were mainly living alone and independently. Most of …
