Centralia, Washington, USA: You may remember the tragic tale of Freddy, a tabby cat, who was entangled in barbed wire on a fence. Someone called the police and Officer Philip Reynolds turned up. He decided to kill the cat with a hammer. There were several blows. He decided that he couldn’t use his firearm. There …
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This is a snippet of cat news in a very short post. Letters written by the infamous Dr Crippen, 6 days before he was hanged for poisoning his wife and while he was at Brixton prison, reveal that he was more concerned about his missing cat and buying a silk blouse for his mistress, Ehel …
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A woman’s worse nightmare? Pretty shocking I’d have thought. Burglary is nasty for the victim especially at night. It happened to me and it took me about 5 years to finally stop being paranoid about sounds at night. A Palm Springs, Florida woman, aged 61, was looking around her home for her cats. I live …
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Although tongue-in-cheque, Prime Minister Cameron, in a radio interview on Heart Radio said he’d double security for the famous Larry, No 10’s resident cat, having expressed his shock at the alleged 6 poisonings of dogs at Crufts, one of which has died. David Cameron said he is a cat and dog lover. He was incredulous …
There are countless examples of what I would term “pet and partner abuse”. They go hand-in-hand. It is an international problem. Because there is a close connection between battered women in abusive homes and abused pets there is a need to extend battered women shelter accommodation to include their cats, dogs and other companion animals. …
Neil Tregarthen, from Truro, Cornwall felt compelled to spend £10,000 on a private detective to investigate the air gun shooting of his daughter’s black cat, Farah, in Burnt House Lane, Exeter, because the Devon and Cornwall police were disinterested in properly investigating the crime. The police deny this and say they have investigated fully. The …
This has become another murky cat story with criminal undertones. You may remember the hue and cry within the online media about the Russian woman, Lena Lenina, who dyed her cat pink to be an adornment at a party she threw in which all the humans wore pink as well. Well, she blames the media …
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The story of Bart, AKA Markie, who returned from the dead after being buried, has taken a new turn (see Zombie Cat posts). There have been questions brought up about the validity of the GoFundMe page set up to raise money to first pay for Bart’s medical care, then to cover the cost of an …
I guess they had no choice but to plead guilty in the hope that they would receive a lenient sentence. This concerns the Ashtabula couple, Kaine Fowler and Melissa M. Candela, who posted a video on Facebook of them balling up cats and tossing them between themselves for entertainment, in an apartment where they were …
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A man, Patryk Ligeza, 24, who was searching for his missing kittens thought he saw them in someone’s house. He reached in through an open window to retrieve them. He was observed by the homeowner and a neighbour. They called the police when he refused to give one of the two cats back. He insisted …
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Cat burglars stole three big cats: a tiger, jaguar and leopard worth £100,000, in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Police are hunting the gang. The cats were probably stolen to order. Their high value appears to be based on their rarity as they were tamed to behave like pets. The tiger was particularly rare …
I’ve just written article about Kaleb Brooks, and 8-year-old a cat lover in the USA, who volunteers at his local rescue centre. His generous behaviour and respect for animals is at the opposite end of the spectrum to the mindless thugs who take enjoyment in shooting cats with airguns or crossbows in the UK. I …
Facebook have declined to remove this sexually deviant and obnoxious webpage on their website. It is hard to believe. What standards are they operating by? This is a follow up to the article Michael recently did on the Valentine’s Day Cat Punching story. Since that article, Facebook has taken down the page, put it back …
A professional boxer has left his neighbor disabled for life after attacking her because her cat defecated outside his front door. This is Moscow, Russia. The viscous man is Aleksandr Hokhlov. He is 26-years-of-age. The lady is Oksana Muronets. This appears to be another ‘cat hating story’ but unusually from Russia. Russians like their cats. …
This is a cruel cat race organised in a backstreet by the community in which the terrified cats are forced to race. I am not going to embed the video. I have not watched it. If you want to see it there is a link at the base of the page. Some time ago we …
