Ten-year-old girl electrocuted and killed getting kittens behind dryer

Girl electrocuted trying to get her kittens behind dryer

A ten-year-old East Texas girl, Greenlee Marie, was electrocuted causing her death while apparently trying to retrieve her kittens, who she loved dearly, from behind a dryer in the home, Fox Carolina reports. It is not known how the tragedy happened. I probably shouldn’t speculate but if she was electrocuted it would be an …

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Toxo-Talk: Studies on toxoplasmosis are inconclusive

T. gondii puzzle

If toxoplasmosis was such a threat to human mental health in the US why haven’t state and federal governments done something about it? The polarisation of views on T. gondii infections is staggering. For cat haters it is a dire threat to humanity and the reason why the domestic cat should be shot and …

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Facebook post going viral as Urbanna Cat Project clashes with mayor over feral cat colony

Urbana lead photo

This is one of those occasions where feral cat caregivers in particular (and cat lovers in general) need to join forces to save a feral cat colony in Virginia. Located in Urbanna are a group of 28 feral cats. At some point, vultures have descended upon the town and the cats are being blamed. …

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Love Your Cat or Dog? President Trump Doesn’t

Under the Trump administration a massive amount of animal welfare information has been removed from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service removed Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act violation records from its website early in February 2017. Whereas until recently the public had …

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The Worst Case of Feline Ringworm That You Will See and It Was on a Tiger

Aasha is a female Bengal tiger. She was a travelling circus tiger. When she was spotted with ringworm at the age of nine months she had the weight of a three-month-old cub at 30 pounds and most of her coat including all her head was badly affected by ringworm. The ringworm had taken all …

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