A Michael Broad Blog
This is a very nice photograph of the exceptionally soft and wavy coat of the Selkirk Rex. It comes from the Chatterie Du Berger website. They are Selkirk Rex breeders in Canada. You might know that this abnormal domestic cat fur coat is caused by an inherited dominant gene, a mutation. This is unlike …
If you want an answer to the question in the title, you’re going to have to phone up the authorities in the area where you live in Canada and ask them. That sounds like an incredibly negative and useless answer. I know that you want a clean, clear solid answer to the question and …
He has a classic unaltered male domestic cat face with those jowls. His face also has the harshness of the Québec winter etched all over it. In February, in Québec City, the high temperature is a high of -4°C and the low as -13°C. It’s exceedingly cold and this boy survived it. We don’t …
I’ve described it as animal racism. It is better described as speciesism. In Montréal, Canada, there is a curfew which applies to all of Québec. Dog owners can take their dogs outside on a lead after 8 p.m. but cat owners can’t. To be clear, if you live in Montréal you can’t take your …
This is the story of Bubby, a three legged, ginger tabby-and-white male cat with sad eyes and a charming character. He lives in Canada. Going back about eight years, he was a street cat enduring a difficult life. He showed up at the home of a man who had a cat named Seson and …
Domestic cats love snow and ice because it is something different. Perhaps it isn’t something different to cats living in Canada or in the north of the US but for a lot of cats it is unusual. And something unusual is stimulating and exciting. There’s a moral behind it which is that we can …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada (adjacent to the capital city, Edmonton) do not have bylaws or rules concerning stray cats. This bothers the citizens of the county and as a consequence they complain. One of the council members, Bill Tonita, said that he gets lots of complaints about roaming cats peeing …
The domestic cat’s stomach is too small for a big, one meal a day mild fasting, feeding regime as suggested by the University of Guelph researchers. I discuss this. You may have read about the well-publicised study carried out by the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in which the researchers came to the conclusion …
