Celebrities / celebrities and cats / celebrity cats / Human to cat relationship
September 20, 2023
You may have heard about Sotheby’s recent auction of Freddie Mercury’s personal possessions. Well, they sold for very close to £40 million ($49,623,000). Most items sold for well over their listed estimates. One of...
behavior of veterinarians / Cat News / Veterinarians
September 10, 2023
NEWS AND COMMENT – Beckenham, Greater London, UK: This is shocking to me and many others. I’ll start with the picture which tells the entire story, actually. I don’t need to add many words...
Animal Rescue / animal rescue / Cat News / cat rescue / cat rescuer / Cats Rescued / Dog news / dog rescue / rescue / rescue cat / Rescue cat
August 30, 2023
Animal rescue groups on the Hawaiian island of Maui are being refused access to the disaster zone to search for surviving cats. The report comes from the Daily Mail in the UK. They say...
Cat News / Cheetah / conservation / conservation / Human to cat relationship / India / Wild Cat Species
August 1, 2023
NEWS AND COMMENT: You may have heard about Project Cheetah. It is the relocation of, initially, 20 cheetahs from Namibia, Africa to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India. The cheetah was extirpated...
animal abuse / animal abuse / Animal laws / Animal Rescue / Cat News / cat rescue / cat rescuer / Charity
July 11, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS: On the face of it, this is another one of those cat rescuers turned bad stories. We see them from time to time when cats rescued by a rescuer need to...
Cat News / homeless / Human to cat relationship / killing cats / lost cat / lost cat
July 8, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS – SAN JOSE, UNITED STATES: Nathan Winograd has told me about a news item which is concerning to animal advocates. The NBC video covers it nicely. And the video mentions the...
adoption / adoption / Animal Rescue / Cat shelters / Persian cat
June 23, 2023
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to adopt a Persian purebred cat from the Humane Society of Tampa Bay and receive all the expenses of cat caregiving fully paid for during the...
cat death / Cat News / cat welfare / China / coronavirus pandemic / Michael Broad
June 18, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS: This story is yet more evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic started in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China; a laboratory (‘lab’) allegedly linked to the Chinese military in developing a...
cat bite / Cat News / cat welfare / Celebrities / domestic cat attacks human / home alone / negligence / rescue / Rescue cat / scratch
June 7, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS: As I buy The Times daily, I know of Carol Midgely. As well as being a columnist for The Times she occasionally helps out at her friend’s animal rescue charity. That’s...
animal abuse / cat death / Cat News / cat welfare / crime / human behavior / human to human relationship / killing cats / neighbour dispute / trapping cats / violence and aggression
June 3, 2023
OPINION and comment on the latest news. Background: we know that in the United States there are many property owners who hate domestic and stray cats wandering onto their property. Cats can wander as...
cat haters / killing cats / neighbour dispute / poison
May 29, 2023
NEWS AND OPINION: If the relationship between you and your neighbour is so bad that they consistently try and poison your cat (or kill them in any other way), I’d recommend moving home. Just...
data protection laws / Law / lost cat / microchipping / police / reunited / Veterinarians
May 25, 2023
Micro-chipping your cat is considered to be the default situation in developed countries in 2023. It’s a necessity. It’ll become a legal obligation in the UK. That’s all well and good. But micro-chipping doesn’t...
cats versus dogs / celebrities and cats / celebrity cats / names / popularity of cats and dogs
May 23, 2023
The choice of “Archie” is interesting because it involves a cat. Before Meghan Markle became world famous after marrying Prince Harry she had a cat in America whose name was Archie and she named her cat after a well-known comic called, you guessed it, Archie
animal abuse / Animal Cruelty / banning declawing / behavior of veterinarians / Cat News / cat welfare / Declawing / ethics / good cat news / onychectomy / pain of declawing / Veterinarians
May 1, 2023
The hypocrisy of Dr. Joanne Carlson DVM is breathtaking. She is the President of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association. She is pushing back on a proposed law that would ban declawing in Illinois....
animal abuse / cat death / Cat News / cat welfare / influencer
April 22, 2023
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story illustrates how brands rapidly distance themselves from any partner with whom they work who’s been involved in animal abuse. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether it happened many...
