A Michael Broad Blog
If you have sometimes yelled at your cat or dog I wouldn’t blame you. Perhaps you are very stressed. It is very easy to be stressed nowadays. The world is very stressful! There’s all kinds of things which stress people including, in the UK, scammers. The UK is drowning in scammers. Scammers on the …
Intro: This is a comment from a visitor to PoC on the page about the relatively high suicide rate of people working in animal rescue. It is poignant and worthy of being re-published as an article. I worked for a vet clinic as an assistant for two and a half years. The heartless owners …
There are a lot of blog posts out there this Christmas season that are bringing attention to how we aren’t gifting as we should. Click here for an article that goes into a lot of statistics and is a must-read. Below are some key numbers 28% of shoppers are entering the holiday season still paying …
We know it and you’ve quite possibly seen it but here it is in case you haven’t. Before I go on, the video seems to be a Tidy Cats creation and you may know that Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter is horrible and that assessment is backed up by a plethora of comments on this …
Puppies are being used to cut the stress that students are under during exam time but it could be cats or indeed any animal. Interacting with puppies in “puppy rooms” is far more healthy that resorting to tons of coffee or drink and even drugs. There is a growing trend at universities to use …
You often see it: people discussing how their cat feeds off their mood. There seems to be some sort of extrasensory perception such that a domestic cat can sense our mood and pick it up so that they become anxious when we are anxious and relaxed and calm when we are relaxed and calm. …
Just a quick note about the Thames flooding. Here are a couple of snapshots taken yesterday evening of the Thames about a 15 minutes walk from where I live. They were taken with an iPhone. I live in Ham which is near Richmond Park. The Thames always looks awesome and beautiful but it can …
By Jo Singer Those of us who live with felines are already keenly aware of the health benefits we get from sharing our homes and hearts with companion cats. Backing up this statement is the fascinating results of the second scientific study made at the University of Minnesota Stroke Research center published in the …
