What affects us affects cats
At present, I think you could say with some confidence that cat licensing won’t work, or does not work sufficiently well but attitudes may change. This is because not enough people are willing to comply with it and local authorities are unable, for practical and financial reasons, to enforce licensing. Therefore non-compliance would continue …
Rachel Wells, a veterinary nurse, lost her cat 14 years ago. It was before the age of Facebook and social media. Finding a lost cat was more difficult in those days. Rachel and her partner spent months searching. At the time he was called Snitch; named after the golden ball in the Harry Potter …
The extent to which a domestic animal looks to the face of a human for clues in problem-solving is said to be a measure of their bond with humans. If this is correct, a study concludes that goats can have a closer bond with humans than cats and dogs have a closer bond with …
A recent survey found that pet ownership has declined in Australia. Numbers have fallen by 200,000 while the dog population has fallen by 100,000 in the past 12 months. It is unsurprising that the cat population has fallen at twice the rate of the dog population, in my opinion, bearing in mind the barrage …
A journalist writing for the Telegraph newspaper, Pete Wedderburn, asks the above question and it is a good question. It opens up a lot of sub-questions in my opinion and it certainly opens up what could be a big discussion about the responsibilities of cat owners towards society and the community in which they …
When does your lost cat become someone else’s? Answer: never unless you formally hand over ownership to another person in one way or another. I pose the question because a battle over the ownership of a domestic cat is going on in California. It has gone to court, which is a great shame. So what …
The weakness in the concept of “cat ownership” can be crystallised if and when your cat wanders around the neighbourhood and finds a place that he prefers to yours, at least for a while. Then the “new owner” can lay claim to your cat. The weakness in cat ownership is that the cat is …
By Chris McHenry Intro by Michael: I want to celebrate “ordinary” (they are all special, in fact) cats in ordinary homes and therefore welcome words and pictures from visitors which show us their cats, which is why I have published the photos of Chris McHenry. Anyone can upload pictures to any comment box on …
