What affects us affects cats
If you feed a stray cat is it legally yours? The answer is No unless there is more, such as the cat lives in your home and you take her to the vets. If feeding a cat made you the owner how would that square up with TNR programs?
How many cats can you have legally? On this planet, extremely rarely a local authority discusses and perhaps creates a law which limits the number of cats that you can own. In general there are no limits although, in effect, the limit is dictated by animal welfare law which states that you must look …
Here is an example of how things can go wrong when you own a domestic cat. It can go wrong to the point where you want to give up your cat. And it can also go wrong when you are a confirmed cat person. If you feel compelled to give up your cat when …
Lyons, NY state: This happens sometimes. A cat is lost. The cat is not microchipped so there is no identification as to the owner. Two months later the cat turns up at a cat shelter. The shelter, under New York law, hold the cat for five days and then they adopt out the cat …
Around 100 cats on the planet die every minute of every day on my calculation but it is based on a bunch of assumptions which I am forced to make because we don’t have the figures.
As a cat owner, do you feel guilty sometimes about the standard of your cat guardianship? Do you feel that you could do better but for various reasons you don’t raise your game to the standard that you would like it to be at? Sometimes it is impossible to provide for your cat in …
Globally domestication of cats and dogs is a failure….By “globally” I mean that taken as a whole when you incorporate into an assessment the domestication of cats and dogs in all the countries of the world you have to be drawn to the conclusion that humans have failed. I am becoming more and more …
The Sunday Times has reported on an interesting development regarding the ownership of cats. Historically, single women prefer cats to dogs. Practically the entire world believes that. However, the domestic cat as the pet of choice for a single woman is under threat from the cute French bulldog. The French bulldog is popular with …
