A Michael Broad Blog
This is a five-page infographic (links at base of each page) on ten reasons for cat abandonment and preventions. Obviously in an ideal world there should be no cat abandonments. Ultimately prevention almost always comes down to human behaviour barring the occasional event which is beyond the cat caregiver’s control. But even those can …
We don’t see pet dander and we don’t see the other airborne particles and pollutants in the air in our homes. Dander flies around homes and settles on furniture. It carries the cat allergen Fel D1. As humans interpret their world visually, this lack of visual recognition can lead to us being complacent about …
I’ve just been surfing the Internet and bumped into a story about the RSPCA in Barrow, UK. This is Barrow-in-Furness which is just south of the Lake District National Park. It’s in the north of England and there is a slightly different culture in the north compared to the south in general and it …
This is another cat rescue story taken from a TikTok video. The information provided is sparse which I find a little surprising. Why don’t the rescuers provide some or even full details? It would be instructive on how domestic cats only very rarely satisfactorily survive when dumped into a wild place. Domestic cat found …
Another kitten rescue from TikTok. A nice one. Lovely woman. There are many cat rescues on social media. Some (hopefully rarely) are sadly contrived and even set up but this one is genuine except that in days gone by no one rescuing a kitten from the middle of a country road where they had …
I don’t know how people can abandon their cat either to a shelter or at the side of a road. Or perhaps they move home and leave their cat behind sometimes locked inside the home remarkably. These people cannot have a conscience. What is a conscience? Is a mental process in which you measure …
Scenario: This is about the impossibility of an ailurophile living with an ailurophobe! Man gets good job and wants to buy a house. His brother will live with him. Both hate cats. His girlfriend loves cats and has 2. He tells her that she will have to give the cats to a shelter if …
To answer the question in the title I am going to rely on a very substantial survey from the United States conducted in the late 1990s from the Regional Shelter Relinquishment Survey Study. It was a team effort between the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy and researchers at four American veterinary …
