A Michael Broad Blog
After the heartbreaking story of Sugar, who was found dead last Thursday, it’s nice to report a happy ending for another of the cats dumped in Garner, North Carolina. Jada, a black beauty, was found last Monday and has been reunited with another cat kept by Tamara Perezlazaro. Jada has been missing since the weekend …
Education is the key to minimising the number of cats given up to shelters. Better job prospects and higher incomes flow from good education. Many more cat owners on low incomes abandoned their cats than those on decent incomes. By far the most common time at which cat abandonment takes place is during the …
When you watch the surveillance video you can see the woman sneak up to the veterinary hospital in her car and quickly walk up to the outside of the hospital and dump the cats before hastily returning to her vehicle. The cats are a mother cat and three kittens, estimated at 10 weeks-of-age. Of …
Is abandoning a pet a crime? The answer depends on how the pet is abandoned and the law of the country, US state, county or city concerned. Giving up a pet to a rescue organisation for no good reason is abandoning a pet but it is not a crime anywhere in the USA. It …
People who give up (relinquish) their cats frequently state that they are allergic to their cat and therefore they have to give him/her up. In fact “owner allergies” is the second most frequent reason for giving up a domestic cat to a shelter. The number one reason by the way is “too many cats …
BARC is Houston’s Animal Shelter and Adoption Facility. They have just opened a brand new facility and low and behold at about the same time (July 31st) someone turns up with 60 cats to abandon to the shelter. Perhaps the timing was deliberate. BARC think that the number is a record. I hope they …
Have you ever heard of shelter staff being blackmailed to take in animals that a person wishes to give up? This has happened to Sue Sewell, Chairman of Hull Animal Welfare Trust, Hull, UK. Her rescue center is full or almost at capacity and therefore sometimes she has to turn people away. The staff …
This is a cat story from Edinburgh, Scotland. Although the facts are not clear or complete, I have decided that this is a rare case of someone saving someone else’s cat from mistreatment by taking the cat to the local rescue center. Do you know of anyone who has done that? As I read …
