Man plucks kitten from bloated, fast flowing river after highest rainfall since 1880

Skip Campbell rescues kitten from bloated stream turned into a river in Sacremento, California

There is a bit of global warming in this kitten rescue story, if you believe in climate change as I do. The story is timely with COP26 rumbling on at Glasgow at the moment. The scientists are at one on global warming: it is happening. We should trust in them and get on with …

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Feral cats found dead or dying stuck to glue traps in Compton

Feral cats of Compton, California

COMPTON, CALIFORNIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: The usual feud has been sparked off by the presence of feral cats in Compton. Feral cats have the ubiquitous ability to divide society. On the one hand you have animal rights advocates who are sensitive to the welfare of feral cats even if they agree that they are a …

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Googleplex should be compartmentalized into cat and dog areas

Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California looking like a holiday camp!

Officially, Google is a dog company. This is speciesism. And it is very high-profile speciesism but the reason that the Google bosses will give is that because Google is a dog company, and dogs are welcome to work with the owners in their massive Googleplex headquarters, there is no place for cats because of …

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Shelter Neuter Return (SNR) can be inhumane

San Diego animal shelter kitten

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 a shelter. The shelter does not find a new home for these friendly cats …

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East Bay Regional Park District staff admit to shooting cats and failing to communicate beforehand

Cat killing controversy

East Bay Regional Park District is a system of parklands and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the east of San Francisco, California, USA. In all it covers 125,000 acres in seventy-three parks with over 1,250 miles of trails. There is clearly lots of wildlife there, including birdlife. The park staff have …

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Campaign to elect a cat as the Mayor of Oakland is a psychological game to relieve stress

Wally a candidate for Mayor of Oakland

I’ve seen it before, cats and dogs campaigning to be mayor of a town or city in America. It looks a bit bizarre but it has a purpose especially nowadays. With the stresses of coronavirus combined with the lengthy presidential election, there is a need for a bit of levity and frivolity to lighten …

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