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Horrific ear-tipping by discount veterinary service

PoC avatarPosted on April 18, 2021 by Michael BroadApril 18, 2021

NEWS AND VIEWS-CABOT, USA: Danyelle Freeman and her family adopted a black cat who they called Batman last Christmas. She admits that she does not know much about domestic cats. They adopted Batman because they lost a cat a while … Continue reading →

Posted in surgery | Tagged animal shelter, bad veterinarian experience, black cat, Cat News, ear tipping, negligence, spaying and neutering, veterinarian | 3 Replies

Unbelievable: UK households buy 3.2 million animals in lockdown

PoC avatarPosted on March 13, 2021 by Michael BroadMarch 13, 2021

Online news media reports that a £500m investor plans to cash in on the cats and dogs boom. What boom? The coronavirus cat and dog boom. It’s bizarre and frankly disturbing if it takes a pandemic to provoke people who’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in adoption | Tagged adoption, animal shelter, cat abandonment, coronavirus (2019-nCoV), dog abandonment, dog adoption, purebred cats, social media | 2 Replies

Time to stop chonky cat memes?

PoC avatarPosted on February 16, 2021 by Michael BroadFebruary 16, 2021

This is an interesting picture of a startled, gray, obese and large cat being held by a smiling young woman. For me, quite a few questions arise from this picture. The first question is where the picture was taken. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Pictures of Cats | Tagged abandoned cat, animal hospital, animal shelter, cat obesity, grey cat, grey cat breeds, obesity, pictures of cats | 2 Replies

Man with gun wanted to protect animals at a shelter?

PoC avatarPosted on January 12, 2021 by Michael BroadJanuary 13, 2021

NEWS AND OPINION: This bizarre story is doing the rounds on news media online. The overriding aspect of it is the mystifying motivation of the central character in the story which occured at an animal shelter in south-east Melbourne, Australia. … Continue reading →

Posted in cat welfare | Tagged animal shelter, Cat News, cat welfare, dog news | Leave a reply

Shelter Neuter Return (SNR) can be inhumane

PoC avatarPosted on December 21, 2020 by Michael BroadDecember 21, 2020

NEWS AND COMMENT – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA: Shelter Neuter Return (SNR) is a fairly new method of dealing with friendly domestic cats who have been picked up by neighbours because they are apparently without an owner and taken to … Continue reading →

Posted in Shelter Neuter Return (SNR) | Tagged animal law, animal shelter, california, Community Cats, humane society, no kill animal shelters, no kill shelters, Shelter Neuter Return, SNR

Cats and dogs are calmer at shelters when they are selected online because of the coronavirus pandemic

PoC avatarPosted on November 5, 2020 by Michael BroadNovember 5, 2020

NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Because of Covid-19, one animal shelter in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Assisi Animal Sanctuary, is using the Internet as a means to present their animals to potential adopters in order to comply with social distancing, to minimise … Continue reading →

Posted in animal sanctuary | Tagged animal sanctuary, animal shelter, Belfast, cat sanctuary, coronavirus (2019-nCoV), good cat news, internet, Northern Ireland, online cat adoptions | 1 Reply

Domestic cat with longest neck

PoC avatarPosted on October 23, 2020 by Michael BroadOctober 23, 2020

Olivia, who was living at Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control at the time the photograph was taken, has the longest neck of a domestic cat that I have seen. I’m sure that it is entirely natural and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Cat Anatomy | Tagged adoption, America, animal shelter, cat anatomy, rare cat, rescue cat, tabby cat | Leave a reply

More cats than dogs abandoned during coronavirus pandemic

PoC avatarPosted on September 20, 2020 by Michael BroadOctober 21, 2020

It seems that dogs are beating cats as a lockdown favourite companion animal. The Association of Dogs and Cats Homes (ADCH) carried out a survey on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on animal rescue organisations in eight jurisdictions in … Continue reading →

Posted in study | Tagged animal shelter, Cat News, cat study, coronavirus (2019-nCoV), study, uk | Leave a reply

Can animal shelters refuse animals?

PoC avatarPosted on August 22, 2020 by Michael BroadAugust 22, 2020

Somebody asked the question whether animal shelters can refuse animals. The answer must depend on the type of animal shelter we are referring to. There are a wide range of animal shelters. Two types are the no-kill rescue animal shelter … Continue reading →

Posted in animal sanctuary | Tagged animal shelter, cat euthanasia, cat shelters, cat shelters usa, humanely euthanize a cat, no-kill, no-kill shelter | Leave a reply

Factors affecting the success rate of shelter cat adoptions

PoC avatarPosted on July 11, 2020 by Michael BroadJuly 11, 2020

Not all cat adoptions from animal shelters are successful. They don’t lead to a relationship for the lifespan of the cat. A study in 1992 by Kidd et al. tells us what sort of factors can influence the success or … Continue reading →

Posted in adoption | Tagged animal shelter, cat adoptions, cat relinquishment, cat rescue adoptions, cat shelter, relinquishing cats, USA veterinarians, veterinarians | Leave a reply

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