What affects us affects cats
The British government is dragging its feet over the banning of wild animals in zoos despite the generally held international view that the British public are animal lovers. We voted this government into power but they appear not to be carrying out the views of the electorate when it comes to zoo animals. The …
Introduction by Michael: Although a slightly forgotten, infamous individual, Julianne Westberry was well known as the cat hoarder who cynically and successfully played the cat rescue network to receive praise and money. But cats starved to death on her premises. She was in charge of a cat house of hell. There has been a …
By Michael and Sandy Sandy writes: As you may know, we’re experiencing tragic losses of homes and animals in fires that are raging our neighbor, Lake County. It’s been going on since Saturday afternoon, and spreading fast. One thousand homes have been lost, in addition to many businesses. I’ve been spending a lot of …
Every so often we see a cat news story about a “kleptomaniac cat”. There is one doing the rounds at the moment. It concerns a policeman’s cat, ironically, who has been dubbed a cat burglar. Tigger “steals” everything and anything such as trash, toys and even a bag of marijuana. Other cats have stolen …
Well, we know that companion animals are part of the family and this certainly applies to this Syrian refugee who made his long, perilous and arduous journey from war-torn Syria to Greece with a tabby kitten because he couldn’t leave her behind. There is a photo posted of him on Twitter which you see …
Davidson County, North Carolina, USA: Marsha Williams worked as a director of two shelters in North Carolina: Davidson County Animal Shelter and Guildford County Shelter. Her employer was United Animal Coalition (UAC). UAC is a business that was contracted by Davidson County to run these two shelters. I guess that the commissioners of Davidson …
We know what Walter Palmer likes to do; kill the rarest and the biggest animal for his entertainment and then stick a stuffed part of the carcass on the office wall of his dental practice. A perverted individual. What some people might not realise is that as long ago as December 2011 Mark Zuckerberg, …
Yawn. Sorry, but I have to report on Dr Walter Palmer’s first day back at work after six weeks off because it is quite interesting in a boring, repetitive kind of way! Dr Palmer’s dental practice reopened, in fact, in mid-August without him. You may remember too that he had given an interview, recently …
