What affects us affects cats
A stray cat with what appears to have been badly infected or damaged ears was taken to an animal rehoming center where a vet associated with the center amputated a large part of each ear (see photo) whereupon the photo went viral on social media as the charity claimed the loss of the cat’s …
We are informed that a senior cleric in Saudi Arabia, when told that there was a trend in taking pictures with cats amongst Saudi citizens, banned the taking of cat selfies as a way of forcing its citizens to avoid becoming like Westerners. Nothing is worse, it seems, in Saudi Arabia than becoming like …
The number of cats, dogs and rabbits rescued in the year by the RSPCA fell significantly. In respect of cats, rescues fell from 41,000 to 32,000. For dogs the number rescued halved in a year to 8,000. This is obviously disappointing news for all animal lovers who respect the RSPCA as the world’s oldest …
In Madrid, Spain, a woman, Belén Lobeto (see below), was facing a fine for carrying a bag emblazoned with the initials ACAB. The police interpreted this to mean All Cops Are Bastards. Having been stopped by a couple of police officers she protested her innocence when showing them that the bag had a picture …
https://youtu.be/XunFCgs7rj8 Three newborn kittens were found in an Indiana barn. One of them died. The other two you see in the video. There is a lot of speculation about these kittens. Some articles discuss what sort of breed these cats are which is a fallacy. These newborn cats might be wild cats in which …
Brad VanCleave, a Navy reservist from Murrieta, California was working as a government contractor at the Baghdad International Airport. He was serving his country and falling in love with a kitten is probably the last thing he expected. Now that cat, who was a baby kitten in July of 2015 when Brad found him, …
The Bill to ban declawing in New York State currently being debated and discussed is stuck in the committee stage at the Assembly and the Senate. This important Bill has been at this stage since last year and there are 14 days left in this legislative session. As I understand it, if the Bill …
This has undertones of the Kristen Lindsey story. You remember the vet to shot a cat with a bow and arrow and then boasted about it on Facebook. Well this is a story from Dundee in Scotland and it concerns two male teenagers who posted photographs of themselves seriously abusing a young cat on …
