What affects us affects cats
The China Li Hua cat has the appearance of a standard tabby cat. It is indistinguishable from a mixed-breed tabby which makes the breed untenable. It is hardly mentioned in the world of cats online. It is a uniquely Chinese cat breed. But I doubt that this cat breed is genuine. It could all …
The Grand Strand Humane Society is an open admission animal shelter which takes in animals from Myrtle Beach, a city on the east coast of the USA. News media (Myrtle Beach SC News) has reported what I would call an uproar among people connected to the shelter and perhaps to a certain extent within …
A very large number of animals living in China are severely mistreated, probably a far greater a number than suggested here. Yes, I know animals are mistreated in the West as well but there is a difference which I discuss. This article is a criticism of the Chinese Government’s wholly unacceptable disregard for animals in …
This is a topic that interests me: how artists of the mediaeval era depicted domestic cats in their paintings. And I’m sure that they felt that they were painting an accurate representation of the domestic cat before them. But by today’s standards they are quite poor for one reason: they humanised them. They painted …
NEWS AND COMMENT: You have probably been reading about the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, 35, a former Wimbledon doubles champion, who apparently went missing after she accused retired Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of pressuring her into having sex. She posted her views on the Chinese website Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. Her post was …
I’ve just bumped into information about the Shandong Lion Cat. I had never heard of this supposedly exclusive Chinese cat breed before. It is a well-kept secret and I am not convinced that it is actually true. One website promotes the idea that there are, in fact, five different kinds of exclusive Chinese purebred …
CHINA: ‘This video clip warmed the hearts of many online’: affectionate boy rescues stray cat. Neat and nice. Love to see this sort of thing. It’s what our relationship with animals should be about – always. Kindness and sensitivity towards animals who often live in a difficult or downright hostile world created by humans. …
HARBIN, CHINA – NEWS AND COMMENT: This story is all over the Internet and I have written about it before. It is the first time that I have read a report online or in the printed news media of domestic cats being deliberately killed because they’d contracted Covid. It also seems likely that these …
