Pets rescued from the Grenfell Tower blaze to be temporarily housed by Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

Clearly, quite a lot of dogs and cats have been rescued from the catastrophic fire at Grenfell House. The residents who escaped are to be temporarily housed in their community by the local authority. It may be impractical or impossible for the temporary housing to accommodate pets. Therefore, the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home …

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Job Vacancy at City Hall: Domestic Cat Needed to Control Mice

City Hall

I love this one. We know that in London there are domestic cats who have been specifically employed by the government to keep down the rodent population. We know about Larry at number 10 Downing Street and there’s a cat at the Treasury but I’ve forgotten his name temporarily. They sometimes meet and fight! …

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Happy Ending For an Abandoned Chinchilla Persian Living a Hard Life On the Streets of London

Penelope in her new knitted coat

It always surprises me when I read about abandoned purebred cats to the point where they are wandering the streets alone in real danger and scavenging for food. They might be doing this for a long time. In the case of this particular Chinchilla Persian cat, who has been named Penelope by staff at …

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Caitlin Moran is a Cat Hater

Caitlin Moran is a celebrated Times journalist. She is the current columnist of the year. Caitlin Moran has come out. She has declared to the world in the Saturday magazine that “it’s taken me 9 years to admit it but: I am a cat hater. I hate my cat”. No doubt she is being …

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Unlucky Cat Names

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home tell us that cats with the names: Charlie, Princess and Tigger a more likely to be at their rescue re-homing facility than cats with other names. These are some of the more common cat names at the rescue facility. As for dogs, the same could be said for the …

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An old black cat: Tooty

I’d love it, if someone adopted Tooty this weekend at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, London, UK. She is black and she is 15 years old. This is not a great start in the world of unwanted cats. Old age and the colour black are not considered attractive to adopters. Unwanted cats enter a …

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