What affects us affects cats
I have said it before and I’ll say it again; feral cats can be useful. There is a place in communities for feral cats. We just need to see it. This story emphasises it. It tells us that feral cats can be working cats. It tells us that people who hate feral cats are …
Linda Haworth breaks down in tears when she describes how she took her cat to her veterinarian because he wasn’t feeling well. He had stopped eating. Whilst at the clinic the veterinarian decided that she needed to take some blood tests and took Timmy into a different room. Before she did so, Linda mentioned …
You may remember that Zayn Malik is a former One Direction band member and a very successful “popstar”. He is now working solo. He has a following. He’s from Bradford, UK. He has done something which makes me change my mind about him. He has offered to pay for all the veterinary surgery to …
In Chesapeake, perhaps in all of the state of Virginia (the story is not clear), it is a crime to feed abandoned cats and find them good homes. The crime is peculiar and hardly fits the activity. Debbie Manzione was charged with “harboring a stray animal for more than 14 days” because she was …
This is another example of horrendous cat cruelty (which I refuse to dwell on because it might affect your mental health) by an allegedly mentally ill person whose mental health is being evaluated. I wrote a similar article on March 14, 2014 about a woman who did something something similar and equally cruel. The …
I have heard it. Those amongst us who smirk when I refer to “working cats”. They don’t believe that such an animal exists. Well she does and she lives in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. She is a feral cat who is part of colony of about fifteen who live amongst the prawn fishermen of …
This is a great idea and these are lovely pictures. People in nursing homes don’t have a chance to look after a cat. They may well have given up their cat when they went into the nursing home. The Ohio Alleycat Resource Shelter came up with this excellent initiative, to visit nursing homes with …
There are many examples, three of which have quite recently been reported in the press, of people killing their neighbour’s cat and excusing their behaviour by saying that they thought they were killing a feral cat. As if that is an excuse. As if that could be an excuse. It can’t. The law does …
