What affects us affects cats
I think the days of proudly presenting animal abuse on Facebook is drawing to a close. Surprisingly, not that uncommonly, some people like to abuse animals and video their deviant behavior. They then upload the video to Facebook and boast about their criminality. In the past there has been a certain amount of tolerance …
A 64-year-old man was rescuing his neighbour’s cat, Domino. The cat had gone into a building site and climbed up the scaffolding. The man, Richard May, had to climb up the scaffolding to retrieve his neighbour’s cat. Somebody noticed what he was doing but they thought he was a trespasser and a burglar so …
A person trying to help a feral cat was bitten by him/her and it transpired that this cat had rabies and had been through the TNR program and had been vaccinated for rabies (TNVR). It raises questions regarding public health, TNVR and how to deal with feral cats. This is a TNR story which …
Several shelter volunteers at the Gwinnett County Animal Shelter complained or expressed concerns about how it was run. One of those persons was an employee, Delana Funderburk. She, amongst others, made allegations that the shelter management were manipulating euthanasia rates and fudging statistics. What she claims is that animals were being euthanised because they …
Many rescue organisations have a clause in the adoption contract which states that the adopter(s) must bring the animal back if they want to get rid of him/her. This is sensible as it helps to protect the lives of these animals. It prevents rescue animal adopters being careless with the welfare of the animal …
This is the extraordinary headline (or words to that effect) in the Daily Star online newspaper. Black panthers are big cats. They are usually melanistic jaguars or leopards. Therefore, the headline suggests that there are a large number of very dangerous big cats wandering around the countryside and suburbia of the UK terrifying residents …
Kerrin Conklin was the Executive Director for the Central New York SPCA. She was fired summarily (without notice for what must have been gross misconduct) after five months in the job because she decided to authorise the euthanasia of 14 cats that had been exposed to ringworm. Apparently one cat had contracted ringworm. Then, …
The Pet Rescue and Adoption Act is a bill (proposed legislation being debated by the legislators) which extends to the entire state of California a law which has been in place in Los Angeles since 2012, namely, an obligation on pet store owners to only sell dogs, cats and rabbits that come from shelters …
