A Michael Broad Blog
There are so many pictures of cats and dogs being cuddled and loved by Ukraine army personnel that a wise person has created a Twitter account to show them off. It’s doing very well with about 15.2k followers at the moment. That’s good in a very short timeframe. And it is no surprise to …
Cat immersion therapy (my modified name for this!) is using the power of the cat in images and sound to bring joy to a person who is isolated in hospital. Hospitalized happy people recover faster than unhappy people don’t they? This is an uplifting story that brings into sharp focus the benefit of the …
We need to focus for a while on the perpetrators of cat hoarding as well as the victims. My primary focus is on the cats because I am interested in cat welfare. However, almost daily we encounter a story of cat hoarding in online news media. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America reports …
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) for cats is an alternative medicine. Some veterinarians claim wondrous things from this treatment. The truth is that there is little evidence supporting the effectiveness of this treatment. It reminds me a bit of the cure-all elixir sold in the days of the wild west. In the photograph on this …
Lux, the cat branded as violent should not receive “therapy” unless a very careful analysis has taken place and that there is a real and genuine reason for it. By therapy I presume that the cat’s owner is referring to some sort of medication such as a tranquilliser to medicate the cat and make …
More people should consider cats as therapy for people with special needs. Billy the cat and Fraser the autistic boy are an excellent example. Five year old Fraser Booth is autistic. His anxieties and tantrums spoiled his life and his prospects in life. His parents were told that he would never attend mainstream school. …
By Elisa Black-Taylor My friend, Robin Olson lives in Newtown, Connecticut. For those of you who don’t know, this is the small town that lost 20 precious first and second graders as well as six brave adults who tried to protect them against a gunman who came into Sandy Hook Elementary School on December …
By Ruth (USA) A pleasant drive in the country today brought me to Prairie Animal Hospital in North Prairie, Wisconsin. From the outside the clinic looks like any other small rural animal hospital, but exciting things are happening there, because of the enthusiasm of Dr. Gretchen Jaeger, D.V.M. who believes in the power of …
