A Michael Broad Blog
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES 15 SEPT 2020 – CHICO: Cat lovers will be pleased to know that towards the end of this video you see a cat emerge from under a burnt out wreck of a home. I was shocked to see this animal emerge and trot away, fearful of the rescue workers. It seems almost …
Kerry Boykin lives in the Serenity Hills Road neighbourhood of Vacaville, California. She was out-of-state when the area was evacuated because of the new California wildfires. Her cat, Stripper, was inside her home. Kerry placed a message on the Nextdoor app for her North Bay area neighbourhood saying that her cat was inside and …
I have come to the conclusion that domestic cats that survive fires are more likely to die of a heart attack. I think you have to come to this conclusion based on two sources. The first is that firefighters are at a higher risk of heart attack. There are several contributing factors such as …
I was surprised to read a study published on 14 February 2020 on the nature.com website which concluded that domestic cats with thermal burn injuries from the California wildfires showed that they had heart disease and blood clots as well. The technical term is that they suffered with myocardial thickening (thickened heart muscle) as …
Two natural disasters have encouraged the mountain lion to come down off the hills and into the urban areas of Santa Barbara to feed on feral and outside domestic cats.
The Carr Fire was first reported on July 23, 2018, at the intersection of Highway 299 and Carr Powerhouse Road, in the Whiskeytown district of the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area, in Shasta County, California. When the fire reached Redding on July 26, Tom and Judy Henderson packed up their truck and headed to a …
While this story is a bit older than I usually report on, it deserves being told because it shows just how intelligent a cat can be during life or death emergencies. I do have a discussion question at the end. Back in November, one intelligent feral cat saved her own life as well as …
The Facebook Community page California Wildfires Pets is doing an amazing job at keeping up with pets lost, found and reunited. They also have a small album for Rainbow Bridge pets who didn’t survive. Several hundred photos are available of cats alive, although some are sooty and many have bandaged feet. At the time …
