What affects us affects cats
It is fairly obvious to even the casual observer, who surfs the Internet, that the American public are passionate about seeing justice done when animal cruelty and abuse is perpetrated by criminals. All 50 states in America have felony animal cruelty provisions in their legislation. This reflects the views of the public because the …
This is a big cat sighting which has all the hallmarks of journalistic fiction on a quiet day for decent news. However, this mountain lion sighting has ostensibly been confirmed by the police using a heat sensing camera. I can only presume that journalists are working with the police to drum up a bit …
At the date of this post, there are a plethora of articles about how the toxoplasma gondii (deliberately described as “toxoplasma protozoan” here) can cause mental illness in people. It is all over the Internet at the moment. Recently TIME also published an article about it. It is disturbing to cat lovers. It should …
Sometimes the word ‘hoarding’ doesn’t apply to cats but things and when hoarding is combined with laziness, fecklessness and untidiness over a long time you get this: In this house in Adelaide, Australia, there were three cats. You can see a ginger-and-white moggie in this photo on top of a gargantuan pile of rubbish …
This is a cat story from Edinburgh, Scotland. Although the facts are not clear or complete, I have decided that this is a rare case of someone saving someone else’s cat from mistreatment by taking the cat to the local rescue center. Do you know of anyone who has done that? As I read …
A city, Holland, Michigan, USA, is trying to decide the undecidable, the imponderable: what should be the maximum number of cats and dogs per household in the city? At the moment they have an ordinance which limits the number of dogs to two but places no limit on the number of cats. The photo …
This is another one of those “I’m too scared of my cat stories” which seem to be emerging from online news media these days. When I read them one word comes to mind “pathetic”. This is a transcript of a telephone conversation between Mr Mohammed Lokman and the police from whom he sought help to …
In what appears to be an off-the-cuff remark, Maggie Barry, New Zealand’s conservation Minister suggested that households should be restricted to a maximum of two cats. She claims that an excessive cat population in New Zealand was endangering the famous, flightless bird, the Kiwi. New Zealand is apparently the place where you will find …
