This is a question about whether introducing a law which restricts the number of cats that a person can own would have the effect of reducing cat hoarding cases. Cat hoarding is a mental health problem in a not insubstantial number of people. I can say that with some confidence because quite often the …
HOUSTON, TEXAS USA – NEWS AND VIEWS: It appears that a Houston resident kept a tiger as a pet and the tiger escaped leading to sightings of it wandering around the suburbs of Houston looking in, my opinion, nervous and not aggressive as described by some. The video shows the big cat on a …
In the UK, and there are similar issues in the USA, there are complexities and barriers in trying to be a pet owner in rented accommodation. In the UK, this has been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. There will be many evictions when the election ban ends in England due to rent arrears. Some …
SOUTH AFRICA-NEWS AND VIEWS: The South African government has realised that public opinion is turning against one of their major businesses: the captive breeding, captive hunting, captive petting (of cubs) and captive use and abuse of lions. In that vein they want to provide tourists, which has to include trophy and sport hunters, with …
NEWS AND VIEWS: In violation of New York State law governing the commercial possession and sale of wild cat species such as the caracal and serval, Christopher Casacci, 38, of Amherst, traded in these exotic African cats under the guise of selling domestic pets. He sold dozens of caracals and servals for $7,500 to …
Micro-chipping is governed by the laws of each individual Australian state and therefore there is a variance across the continent. The vast majority of states make it obligatory to microchip your cat. The UK is catching up with Australia on cat micro-chipping as the current government intends to introduce mandatory micro-chipping in the UK. …
Carole Baskin has been physically threatened for 20 years ever since she started her campaign against private owners of captive big cats and their abuse. In case you don’t know, Carole Baskin is the lady who rescues big cats from abusive private zoos and other such places. She was featured on the Netflix documentary …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Shirley Gear-Evans, 65, a widow of Adber, near Sherborne in Dorset, UK, said that she can’t have another cat because her neighbour admittedly drowned her cat, Ruby, in a water butt. Her neighbour is Richard Giles, 69, a gardener. He claimed that Shirley’s cat kept on digging up his vegetables. Mr …
