What affects us affects cats
‘Humans are more important than cats so I don’t care.’ The words of Norman Wilson, 48, who was jealous of the love the family cats received from his disabled wife so he beat a very young cat, Tiny Tim, to death. But it does not stop there. Ten other family cats have died in …
Yes, believe it or not an animal rights campaigner has put his estranged wife’s cat into a tumble dryer just to spite her and upset her. His 30 year marriage ended and the life of the family cat almost ended as well after he put his wife’s cat in the tumble dryer. Preston magistrates …
A Bournemouth vet is struck off for the “chronic and prolonged neglect” of her two pet dogs. Source: Bournemouth vet struck off over ‘prolonged neglect’ of two pet dogs – BBC News Are all vets concerned about animal welfare? Crazy question? No. Vets are the general public. Most veterinarians will be sensitive to animal …
This has undertones of the Kristen Lindsey story. You remember the vet to shot a cat with a bow and arrow and then boasted about it on Facebook. Well this is a story from Dundee in Scotland and it concerns two male teenagers who posted photographs of themselves seriously abusing a young cat on …
The so called “cat ripper” operates in Croydon, London. This is south-east London. We are now seeing the same sort of killings and mutilations of cats in other parts of London specifically Richmond, Streatham and in the North at Finchley and Tottenham Hale. It is particularly worrying for me because I live about 4 …
For about seven years it appears that a serial cat killer has been going about his business with a machete in south-east London, UK. Only now have people realised that the reports of butchered, missing and injured cats are probably linked. Despite that, the local police force have decided that the most recent victim …
The British government is dragging its feet over the banning of wild animals in zoos despite the generally held international view that the British public are animal lovers. We voted this government into power but they appear not to be carrying out the views of the electorate when it comes to zoo animals. The …
In the UK, prosecutions for criminal acts of abuse and neglect against animals are brought under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. This is a very elegant and well drafted Act. There are two outstanding statistics in respect of animal abuse in the UK 2013: Successful prosecutions (convictions) under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 were …
