What affects us affects cats
A new casino has recently opened in Vladivostok, Russia (in the Primorye Entertainment Zone – part of a £330 million development to satisfy Chinese gamblers). This city straddles the habitat of the endangered Siberian tiger. It is said that Russia has gone to great lengths to protect the world’s biggest tiger in their country. …
The agriculture minister of Germany, Christian Schmidt, has declared that male cats who have not been neutered will not be allowed to leave the family home and roam free. What about unspayed females? I suppose the same rule applies. It appears that for the first time Germany has joined other countries such as New …
This is the story of a black kitten who was rescued by a Animal Rescue Center in Bydgoszcz, northern Poland. After his difficult journey to full recovery having been plagued with a severe upper respiratory infection he returned the favour by attending sick cats and dogs at the shelter. The staff named him Radamenes. …
The law had been debated and agreed (A 2778/S 1081). It only required the signature of Governor Cuomo for this bill to become law which would formalize trap-neuter-return programs (TNR) in New York state and which would have made provision for some state funding of the TNR programs. This law would have been a …
This public house in Bristol, UK, is the only cat pub in the UK as far as I am aware. There are 15 cats in pub (there were 24 but that was too many the landlord said) and they lounge around just as they would if they were in a cat café. The pub …
The now infamous video, which is embedded below (no longer there as it has been removed from YouTube), shows a crime being committed on a domestic cat. Yet the police have decided not to charge the perpetrator. Also there is a questionmark over whether the cat that was checked by the police (and a …
Michael Marra, 59, an ex-firefighter, and Bloomfield resident, fed and cared for a colony of around 90 feral cats living at the extensive Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. He had done this continuously for ten years and then the police, last December, decided to charge him for illegally trespassing on sports complex land …
I’m pleased to report that some veterinarians on Prince Edward Island (which is a province of Canada) are considering ending the practice of declawing of cats on the entire island. It is unusual and indeed quite surprising that veterinarians are taking the initiative to stop the declawing of cats on this island because up …
