What affects us affects cats
This is a David and Goliath type tussle and it does bring home to us the stark difference in mentality between independent minded women who wish to care for feral cats out of the kindness of their hearts with absolutely no gain in it for them other than the pleasure of helping and saving …
It’s all about commitment. Without commitment senior managers at some cat shelters will find almost any excuse to kill a cat because in their eyes they have good reason to. They often lack sufficient space and sometimes they lack sufficient facilities to deal with the high number of cats that come into their care. …
Cattle herders are still routinely poisoning lions across Africa in order to protect their cows. They don’t know the consequences of what they’re doing. Conservationists have warned that poisoning lions in this reckless manner has huge knock-on effects. Other animals eat the same poisoned meat and they die too. Then there is tourism. This …
I really like this simply story because it is always nice to read about boys and girls doing some something really special to help a cat or cats. Somehow we are conditioned to believing that teenagers don’t really care that much about the family cat. They have more important things to do. The general …
Answer: Portland, Oregon. In second place is Seattle. By ‘cat lady’ we mean single ladies with their cat(s). Here is the top 10 list: 1. Portland, Oregon (9.9%) – this means that almost one in ten women (or ten in one hundred) in Portland live alone with a cat or cats. 2. Seattle (9.3%) …
The killing of Cecil the lion by Walter Palmer and his cohorts did some good. It highlighted the need to tighten up the whole trophy hunting business and it is big business. To be frank we can’t rely on the governments of African states such as Zimbabwe where Cecil lived to change much. It …
This is Australia where poisonous snakes are a real hazard to people but usually not cats. As soon as I read the story it reminded me of the ancient history of the domestic cat. The wild cat ancestor of the domestic cat, the North African wildcat, is a very competent snake catcher/killer. Cats are …
This will please cat lovers. The entire world has heard about the terrorist atrocities in Paris which have now led to a police lockdown in Brussels, Belgium, while the authorities search for terrorists and prevent an imminent attack. The city has gone quiet. The schools and universities are shut. The underground is not running …
