What affects us affects cats
Yes, it is possible to scare off lions on the African continent. You don’t have to kill them to protect your cattle. For the past two and a half years, under a scheme instigated by Oxford University’s wildlife conservation unit, farmers have seen a 40 to 50% drop in cattle being killed by lions …
By Jo Singer This past June, a beloved and highly popular lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe was brutally and illegally slain by Walter Palmer, D.D.S. It will be a long time before animal lovers will forget the huge impact that the murder of this majestic lion made on the public. Following the news of …
Introduction from Michael I love to see domestic cats from places other than in the West. It broadens the website and our knowledge. We need to read more about domestic cats in countries in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. Joyce emailed me with pictures and text of two cats she adopted which …
This is really a love story because it is so intimate and so loving that it is difficult to describe it as anything else. It is ‘father and daughter’ and as far removed from backyard pet lions as it is possible to be. The story takes place in Botswana on the African continent. The …
The rare purebred cat, the Sokoke, is named after the forest whence it came: Arabuko Sokoke forest. It is in Kenya. It is 420 square kilometers in size and the largest coastal forest in east Africa. The original Sokoke is a semi-feral cat living in and around settlements. It looks rather like a wild …
The African lion is being pushed off the planet by humankind. Put it another way, it has been projected that within 40 years humankind will have wiped out the African lion, in the wild, if we carry on as we are. There simply hardly enough space left in Africa for the lion and the …
I’ll make a provocative statement and say there is more superstition in Africa than there is in the West and it is one factor that is holding Africa back in its development from being a third world country (developing and one of the least developed countries). That is not to say that there isn’t …
This is an African continent, wild cat species story; specifically Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. The black element in this ‘battle’ is the government of Robert Mugabe and the white element is British colonialism and the white farmers that remain in Zimbabwe. It is just one more example of conflict amongst humankind (isn’t there too much?) …
