My research indicates that the rules regarding burying your pet in the USA may well come down to the specific requirements of the city in which you live. In other words you can’t say the rules on pet burial concern … Continue reading →
NEWS AND ANALYSIS: if you read the online news media on the subject of cats as I have over more than a decade you have to notice a very gradual trend towards domestic cat confinement to protect wildlife. Attitudes are … Continue reading →
This is an extraordinary development as far as I am concerned. Councils in the UK are using a little-known power to impose restrictions on certain kinds of behaviour which the council deems “capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to others”. … Continue reading →
Approximately nineteen million domestic cats are declawed in the USA at 2020. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) tells us how many cats are declawed in the US although the information is scarce. Clearly not a lot of concern has … Continue reading →
OPINION ARTICLE BASED ON NEWS STORY: I am stressing that this is an opinion article because I have strong opinions about this sort of person. He is clearly an objectionable person who has no concern about animal welfare and who … Continue reading →
There have been various attempts over the years by local authorities in America to ban the feeding of feral cats. It is being discussed right now by the Casper City Council in Wyoming. There is an interesting detailed report of … Continue reading →
I believe that with respect to cat ownership there should be a nanny state in the USA and in the UK or anywhere else for that matter. The word “nanny state” refers to a government interfering in the minutiae of … Continue reading →
This little feral cat story, from Philip Joens of the Des Moines Register, highlights a problem which is at the root of many attempts by city legislators/administrators to better manage the feral cat population in their jurisdiction. Jefferson City in … Continue reading →
The home was standing on the 300 block of Greenwood Street in the West Side of Youngstown, Ohio, USA. It was the home of a cat hoarder in which almost a hundred cats lived together with a large population of … Continue reading →
On my reading of the situation, RSPCA South Australia, are struggling to obtain the agreement of the federal government to instigate a comprehensive policy which they have devised and written up to “resolve South Australia’s cat crisis”. They describe the … Continue reading →
