A Michael Broad Blog
There has been a lot of discussion over recent years about cat ownership restrictions and obligations as required under possible new laws. The classic one is confining cats to their owner’s home to protect wildlife. This occurs in parts of Australia and another might be limiting owners to a set number of cats. They …
Although it sounds callous, I believe that drug addicts and alcoholics should not be cat owners. They are simply too unreliable. It depends on the standards of cat caregiving one is trying to attain but these should be high. Being drunk or high on drugs is incompatible with high standards of cat caregiving. Many …
NEWS/OPINION: You may have heard about the Vietnamese cat meat restaurant in Vietnam owned by Pham Quoc Doanh. I am pleased that the news media has picked up on his feelings about what he did over the years. It might shed some light on the cat meat culture of Vietnam. But there’s change afoot. …
Introduction The second part of this page (after the long introduction) was written about 12-13 years ago. I need to warn people about that. Details can change over this sort of timeframe. It does not mean that they have changed because in the world of conservation and protecting wildlife under these sorts of treaties, …
I can’t show the photograph of this injured goat because some advertisers won’t like it. It is here simply to illustrate the page. You can click on the link to see the photograph if you wish. Clearly it does not illustrate the page any more 😢 but that is because the policy regarding putting …
There is petition going around at the moment – 21st June 2012. It requests that Thailand’s Environmental Minister tries harder to stop the illegal export of endangered animals and animal parts from Thailand. The trade from Thailand is just one part of a massive worldwide business that leads to the slaughter and/or capture of …
Cons Of Animal Testing by Michael The cons of animal testing could be summarised as: 1. It is an inefficient use of funds because only in 10% of published reviews of animal experimentation did the authors of the reviews say that animal testing had led to clinical procedures that were beneficial to people. In …
The Rights of Cats Cat cleared up from street in Israel 2004, to be killed – photo by ofer k Does an improvement in animal rights means a deterioration in human rights? It actually means a deterioration in profits. The rights of cats in the United States (and maybe the world) are about to …
