What affects us affects cats
The following is a ‘cold case’ from May 2016 I’ve been asked to renew interest in. This investigation into an animal cruelty situation was the first story I ever covered on cat dumping in North Carolina. Rockingham County police are still looking for the person who dumped pet carriers filled with decomposing cats in …
I have just written about a cat detection dog in the UK called Molly. She is very successful. She is well-trained. This is an alternative solution. It is an interesting solution and one that I find less believable but nonetheless it worked. A lady in America, Samerah Begzad, loves her indoor cat Simba. He …
Twenty-five-year-old Mohd Amin Fuad Ramli, a fisherman, spends his spare time burying cats who have died on the streets. There appear to be many. Mohd cannot pass by and leave them there. I think he feels that it is undignified to leave the cats unburied and I think he is right. Apparently, though, according …
A claw machine game is where a player tries to pick up an object (a non-living object) with a grab claw operated from outside a perspex cubicle. Some bright spark had the idiotic and cruel idea of placing three cats inside the claw machine game. Players used the claw to try and grab the …
I am referring to feline diabetes insipidus which is a rare variation of diabetes. It is not related to insulin production as is the case for diabetes mellitus. I have mentioned the hazardous nature of fire-retardants before but not in relation to causing diabetes. The connection was mentioned in a television program, Trust Me, …
Virginia Smith loves her robot cat. It allows her to express her love for cats. You can see this so clearly. It is such a joy to see. Elderly people who have to live in residential care homes are often taken from the joy of their life: their cat companion. Virginia had been a …
This is a nice little vignette of cat and human life at London Royal Docks. A black-and-white cat chases another black-and-white cat. The cat being chased is knocked over by the other cat and then rolls over at the edge of the dock and falls into the water. A man who happened to be …
It is all over the internet. My source is the Sun newspaper. Declassified documents reveal that spy chiefs praised the pioneering work of implanting electronic hardware into domestic cats. It does not look so clever now. The pictures are thumbnails. Click on them to see a larger version. The cat was slit open. The …
