What affects us affects cats
This cat, who has been appropriately named Journey by her carers, must have been completely feral when she tiptoed into a shipping container in Shenzhen China. She spent a least 3 weeks inside it. There was no food. There may have been some moisture on the insides of the container but I am speculating. …
There are two pieces of highly contradictory information on the internet. As at 2019, there are still no animal welfare laws designed to prevent animal abuse in China. It is hard to believe. And yet China Daily reports today that the Chinese spend over $28 billion on cats and dogs. And expenditure on pets …
I like donkeys. In fact I like them a lot. I like their modesty, humility and their humble demeanour. Their submissive character leads to their abuse and, by God, China and their damnable traditional medicine has placed a demand on donkey skins to the point where the world’s donkey population in the next five …
An article on the China Daily website gives me hope that companion animal welfare is improving in China and quite fast. To quote the words of Wen Haitao, the director of an animal hospital: “I can see the improvement of pet protection efforts in China in recent years, as more cities have introduced guidelines …
The whole ghastly process is horrible from whatever angle you look at it. A while ago I wrote about the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) using young cats to conduct animal testing experiments in order to study the parasite toxoplasmosis (see 2nd link at base of article). There was uproar because it had …
The word “tense” comes to mind when I watched this video. Once again this is a Chinese hosted video and I do not recall having seen a video of a veterinarian working in his clinic like this one. It’s a little bit challenging to watch but if you can it’s interesting. I suppose the …
This is a video of a cat on a leash doing a version of the moonwalk. You can see that because he is walking but not going forwards. The reason is because the cat wants to go forwards on a highly polished surface but he is held back because he is tied up like …
On 10:30 on December 8th, the 30th building of Jiqing Street in Zhongshan District (Northeast China) was in flames and firefighters dealt with it. Later the firefighters returned to the burnt out building, I guess to make checks, and they heard the cries of a kitten. Apparently there were five frozen kittens but the …
