A Michael Broad Blog
Don’t worry, I am not going to discuss legal stuff in this article. The Odd Cat Sanctuary of Salem, USA, owned and managed by Tara Kawczynski decided to sue Pamela Howard for the return of a cat that she had adopted from the sanctuary. It should not have come to this. This is my …
I think this video is interesting partly because it’s quite unusual. It’s unusual to see the actual act of abandonment of cats in this case at an animal shelter because the intention of the culprits is to avoid being seen! You can see how surreptitiously this couple act. The woman quickly runs away from …
A contributory factor in the firing of the director of the Montgomery Animal Resource Center, Mark Kumpf, was feeding the cats once daily to “limit the amount of faeces’ that they produced. Extraordinary. It became clear that the center ‘needed new leadership and direction’. The Commissioners were ‘dismayed at the report’. Bob Gruhl was …
I have described Debbie Heller as a Mother Earth figure because what she does is so positive and bountiful it its generosity. I guess she is just an ‘ordinary’ woman but she is also special and by no means unique. I am sure that there are very many ladies like her doing their bit …
Shelter manager Michael Sanducci was sacked by the board of directors of Hi Tor Animal Shelter (Rockland County, USA) because they say he abandoned his job. Sanducci was in dispute with the president of the shelter’s board of directors, Debbie DiBernardo. The board say he abandoned his job and county officials also say that …
All the cats (up to 60) have been euthanised at the Sullivan County Animal Shelter because a kitten adopted from the shelter was diagnosed with feline panleukopenia (feline distemper or parvo). The other cats were evaluated and the decision to kill them all was made. However, one volunteer referred to ‘Kitty’, a cat recently …
Seventeen cats were abandoned in airless plastic containers outside the Orphans in the Storm animal shelter in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, USA. The cats are lucky to be alive. We don’t know how long they were left outside the shelter in this precarious situation but not long enough to harm them. Staff arrived at work to …
This is Freckles, a 16-year-old female tortie. She’s currently at a Wichita, Kansas veterinary clinic where the staff was told to euthanize her by her owner because he was “done with her.” Freckles is FIV positive. Freckles is front declawed. Abandoned by her owner, she’s so confused and wants a safe forever home to …
