What affects us affects cats
Cats in one street in Bradford, UK have died after licking antifreeze from their coats. It has been decided based on the evidence that someone (probably living in the same street but no one knows) is squirting the cats with antifreeze using a water pistol. This is another sadistic form of animal abuse. It’s …
The popular and efficient working cats at the Prime Minister’s offices at Number 10 Downing Street and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are fighting. It has happened before and today I read in the newspaper that they have got into a rather nasty fight in which Palmerston (the cat at the Foreign Office) …
I see this as a bizarre incident. I can’t understand it. The newspapers have described it as a burglary of an animal sanctuary. However, the owners of the sanctuary have started a crowdfunding plea for money on the gofundme.com website and what they say does not concur with what the newspapers say, not exactly …
In Portesham, Dorset, a four lane racetrack was built similar to a greyhound racetrack. It was opened by an enterprising hotelkeeper. The course was about 200 meters (220 yards) long. Greyhounds chase hares. Cats chase mice and so the racetrack was fitted with an electric mouse to get the cats to run as fast …
Lisa Keefe appears to me to be a very good cat guardian/caretaker. She looks after her crossbreed Bengal cat whose name is Bobby. Bobby liked to sleep in the washing machine. Lisa knew it and checked. On this occasion she had taken him out of the washing machine before turning the machine on. But …
There are indications that the parasite causing toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii, could be used in the future in treatments to cure cancer. This is great news because toxoplasmosis is used as a rod to beat cats. It is a parasite which is frequently used as a reason to malign, denigrate, criticise and kill stray and …
This is quite interesting and is a follow-up to a previous article which I wrote about a man, Kent Wilson, who shot his neighbour’s purebred cat (Oriental SH) believing that he was feral when he clearly was not a feral cat. The cat was on his properly. Wilson acted illegally. It is interesting because …
Zappa is a grey, tabby-and-white domestic cat. His home is in Belfast, N. Ireland. His human companion is Julie Blair. She works at the Irish dog rescue centre Cavaliers in Need. Zappa went missing 18 months ago. Julie thought he had died; killed by a fox or shot by a hunter. Then she got …
