What affects us affects cats
January 2014 was a bumper month for comments. There were 2,848! The starting number was 23,755 and the ending number was 26,603. Fantastic. Under the PoC 5 cents per comment scheme that makes $142 USD. That is a good amount, I think. I’d like people to select a worthy cat charity please. I prefer …
Colonel Meow, one of the most famous internet cats in the world, died January 29 after a brief illness. He was rescued several years ago by the Seattle Persian and Himalayan Society after being found abandoned on the side of a road. Colonel Meow underwent a thorough vet exam, and was soon adopted through …
Almost all the cats of the small species of wild cat that is called the “wildcat” are hybrids. At some stage in their lineage an ancestor mated with a domestic cat. It may have been thousands of years ago but nearly all of them are not “purebred”. This is because the domestic cat – …
This is the story of Anna, a sweet Golden Retriever currently living at the Sydney Dogs and Cats Home in southwest Sydney. The nursing dog had just finished weaning her litter of puppies, and now has a brand new family to care for. It all began when veterinarian Dr. Christine Cole decided to put …
Through the discovery of a big cat fossil deposited by a river in the north slopes of the Himalaya range, Central Asia, scientist can roll back by millions of years the time when big cats first roamed the planet and they really did have it all to themselves millions of years ago. Nowadays, their …
Oct 20th 2013: There are two snippets of good news from Canada that benefit the Canadian domestic cat. They both concern declawing. One is actual and the other is potential. Both concern Nova Scotia, which is here: View Larger Map Halifax Veterinary Hospital – Nova Scotia This veterinary hospital has made one of those …
There is a simmering undercurrent of loathing by cat haters directed at decent ladies who tenderly feed feral and community cats. It erupts into pure hate-filled violence from time to time. This is an example. This little vignette of violence concerns one of the icons of hero worship: the firefighter. They are a bit …
This is a powerful story of an attempted cat rescue that sadly failed but which succeeded in leaving a legacy: pet oxygen masks donated to the Fresno firefighters by a generous person after reading the story. Back in June 2013, a kitten lost it’s life to a fire, despite the desperate attempts by Fresno, …
