A Michael Broad Blog
A TERRIFIED cat was delivered to a pet shop with its legs tied up and wrapped in a plastic bag by an owner who was upset the kitten had grown. The most common question a pet shop assistant is asked is. “Will it grow?” Shocking isn’t it? The ‘problem’ of pets growing (it’s a …
It’s takes a low-down person to surrender their cat saying “we just don’t want her anymore.” That’s what a cat owner did last week at a North Carolina shelter (writes Elisa Black-Taylor for Examiner.com) People who surrender their cat at an animal shelter should be asked standard questions and the answers logged onto a …
Just a quick note to ask if anyone who knows whether there has been a steady decline in the number of relinquished or abandoned pets because of the upturn in the American economy. My research indicates that there has been no real decline in relinquishments but as far as Los Angeles Animal Services are …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra I write this article with tears in my eyes as I remember all these beautiful cats. They belonged to a person who we thought was a friend. We met through Cats Protection when Marion our local co-ordinator asked us to look after twelve cats as their owner was going into …
Vicky is a fosterer for Wear Valley and Darlington Cats Protection. She writes the following on her website: I would not change it for the world, but what I would love to see change is people’s attitudes… towards cruelty, towards neglect, towards abandonment and towards NEUTERING. Neglect, neutering and abandonment are big issues in the …
Cats can be the innocent victims of human folly as is shown in this video about the Syrian war. This is a great video. A calico cat, probably a community cat, is featured in the video at 7:24 minutes and 12:50 minutes into the video. You can drag the timeline bar to those times and …
UK: There is a clear connection between interest rates as set by the Bank of England and cat abandonment and euthanasia. As I have said before a lot of things are connected. Perhaps everything is connected. It is worrying because this is a ticking time bomb. For the past 5 years interest rates have …
Even in Britain, a nation of animal lovers, some people treat their pet like a piece of rubbish – trash. Going away on holiday? Can’t afford a cat or dog sitter or boarding cattery fees? Just throw your dog away in the nearest skip. That has happened. In 2012 the RSPCA were called out …
