A Michael Broad Blog
Criminal domestic violence most likely plays a big part in the number of pets turned into shelters in South Carolina (SC), where I live. When Michael did the article Domestic Arguments Make Cats Anxious, I knew I had to do a follow up. A September article by The State newspaper stated SC is second …
Please don’t let daddy kill us! Good morning readers. Today I’d like to continue on with another article which I want you to forward to your state government to force a change in animal abuse laws. I’d like to present the case on how animal abuse is linked to criminal domestic violence. There are …
A lot has been said in the news media about Scarlet Blake’s violent crimes against a cat and a man. The former was torture and killing and the latter was murder resulting in a 24-year prison sentence without parole and two and four-month prison sentences to run concurrently for the criminal damage and animal …
COMMENT: Sadly, due to a lack of education, many people in Kenya, especially along the Indian Ocean coast, still believe, hundreds of years after cats were persecuted during the Middle Ages, that domestic and stray cats are evil. As the spaying and neutering of cats in Kenya is probably rare, they procreate which doesn’t …
Sam Dyson, a millionaire baseball player in America has been accused by his former partner, Alexis Blackburn, of domestic violence. However, she says that “it’s deeper than just physical abuse”. The last straw for Alexis was when Mr Dyson allegedly kicked a cardboard box which was a combination of a cat scratcher and a …
I recently wrote about the introduction of new legislation in Scotland which made abusing pets, and threatening to abuse them, in domestic violence situations an act of domestic abuse. It leads nicely to a discussion about the status of companion animals in households where there is domestic violence and abuse. Law Prioritises People In …
Wonderful. Threatening to hurt your partner’s cat is domestic abuse under Scottish law. This is enlightened thinking. A new law in Scotland, which came into effect on Monday 1st April 2019, makes a partner a domestic abuser if (s)he threatens to hurt the other partner’s pet. It treats that person as if he or …
The phrase “the cat is a contradiction” as coined by Dr Desmond Morris refers to the bi-mental state of the domestic cat who switches flexibly and quickly between wild and tame and between independence and dependence.
