Homeless man takes care of homeless cats

Homeless man looks after homeless cats in Sabah, E. Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, EAST MALAYSIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: This extraordinary man, who might be educated but who has been homeless for a long time, cannot bear to let homeless and vulnerable cats suffer and so despite being in dire straits himself he helps them out. He lives near a dump site and because he helps …

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95% of stray cats have worms and 57% scavenge potentially life-threatening refuse

Stray cat Australia

AUSTRALIA: A study published in 2020 highlights two major health problems concerning stray cats, namely parasites and the quality of the food that they eat. Stray cats are not feral cats. They are domestic cats that have strayed from their home for one reason or another. They might have got lost for instance. They …

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25-30 cats at US Embassy Kabul have been abandoned

Callie gets some attention from US Embassy staffer

NEWS AND VIEWS: I have discovered that the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was the home for 25-30 cats. I use the past tense because all embassy staff have reportedly abandoned the station. CNN reports that the embassy is empty except for, I suspect, the 25-30 cats who depended upon the staff for sustenance. …

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Why are there so many cats on Cyprus?

Community cat of Cyprus

The key reason why are there so many community cats on Cyprus is because not enough are being sterilized. The question is not about domestic cats but semi-feral community cats. Although there needs to be an education program to improve domestic cat ownership to ensure that all owned cats are sterilized. This would tackle …

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Nobody volunteered to help feral cats in Offaly, Republic of Ireland

Lack of volunteers to help out Offaly County SPCA

An organiser of the Offaly SPCA Facebook page lost their cool after nobody came forward in response to an urgent request for volunteers to help a colony of community cats. I have published screenshots of the Facebook post requesting help and after no one came forward the exasperated response. It is quite telling and …

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Someone served spicy human vegetarian meal to community cats at Singapore HDB void deck

Someone put out a vegetarian spicy meal for humans for community cats to eat in an HBD condominium in Singapore

This is a Singaporean community cat story. In Singapore they have a lot of local authority owned and managed housing in the form of apartments (flats) aka condominiums. It is called HBD (Housing & Development Board) housing. As at 2019, 78.9% of Singaporeans live in these public residential developments. On the ground floor there …

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Domesticated, calico stray cat who gatecrashed the Cairo Film Festival poisoned by the authorities

'Festival Cat' being petted at the Film Festival

NEWS AND NEWS-CAIRO, EGYPT: This cute and confident calico cat became a social media star in Egypt when she gatecrashed the Cairo Film Festival (19-28 November 2020). She hobnobbed with the rich and famous on the red catwalk (excuse the pun). The film stars enjoyed her presence and interacted with her. It is the …

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