What affects us affects cats
Ninety percent of internet news media jumped on the bandwagon (including this site) to say that Pope Francis stated that animals go to heaven. He didn’t, we are told. The source of my version was the respected, Times newspaper. The remaining 10% are now saying that Pope Francis did not say this and that …
A hundred years ago, in Kenya, there were many more lions and far fewer Maasai tribesman. Back in those days it could be argued it was more acceptable for a young Maasai Warrior in Kenya to prove his courage and worth to the girls in his community by killing a lion with a spear. …
Gerard Depardieu is a great actor and he likes his wine. He has admitted that he can drink 13 bottles of wine a day and regularly does. It sounds unbelievable and it might be but judging by his size it is probably happening. He clearly likes his food as well. In an article in …
News broke this past week from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Section, where an announcement was made that carbon monoxide gassing will no longer be an accepted form of euthanasia in NC animal shelters effective February 15th 2015. Much of this was covered in the 2013 AVMA Euthanasia Guidelines. The six …
An investigation concluded that a tiger handler, David Styles, when presenting a show in an arena in zoo in Queensland, Australia, overstimulated the 120 kg tiger he was with. He was being filmed by the BBC at the time. The handler made himself look different which caught the interest of the tiger. The tiger …
Approximately forty feral and stray cats make their home on the backside of the Hawthorne Racetrack in Stickney, Illinois. For the past seven years Carrie Gobernatz, the National News Editor for Horseback Magazine has lovingingly tended to these kitties, spending $130 a week out of her own pocket to feed them. Gobernatz has spent …
There is a green stray cat wandering around the seaside town of Varna in Bulgaria. As the photos indicate the coat is bright green. This looks interesting to many people and some have been theorising on what happened. This is not a hoax and it is not a bit of innocent fun. We have …
Frank and Louie was the world’s oldest “Janus cat”. This is a cat with — what I would describe as suffering from — an horrific abnormality, namely two faces. I’m sure most often cats with this horrendous birth defect fail to survive very long but in this instance this cat lived an ordinary life …
