People lack a conscience when they abandon their cat. Always rehome.
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...
abandoned cat / abandoning cats / ambivalent / cat abuse / cat welfare / Human to cat relationship
April 2, 2023
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...
ailurophile / Ailurophobia / human to human relationship
March 21, 2023
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...
August 13, 2022
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...
May 8, 2022
Is abandoning a cat illegal? Abandoning a cat is a form of cat abuse and it is being cruel to a cat both physically and quite possibly psychologically. Animal welfare laws protect cats from cruelty by people. Sometimes they specify abandonment as a cruel act and a crime. Therefore it is normally illegal to abandon a cat.
September 2, 2021
NEWS AND COMMENT-KOH PHI PHI, THAILAND: Over 1,000 domestic cats have been abandoned by their owners on Koh Phi Phi which is a collection of islands, and a part of Thailand, between the large...
July 21, 2021
On Reddit.com a person (Reddit username: u/DoctaEiffel) posted the headline Dumped at a shelter after 18 years because his family “didn’t want cat hair anymore,” now he lives in our sanctuary. Welcome, Pumpkin! It...
June 7, 2021
Brazil’s Island of the Cats is Brazil’s dirty feline secret but it is a secret no more because is a catastrophe in terms of animal welfare which need to be addressed urgently but decisions...
April 21, 2021
I am going to combine two news items in this post. One comes from PETA and the other from news media. PETA states that animal shelters are turning their backs on cats which is...
March 13, 2021
Online news media reports that a £500m investor plans to cash in on the cats and dogs boom. What boom? The coronavirus cat and dog boom. It’s bizarre and frankly disturbing if it takes...
May 26, 2020
NEWS/VIEWS – THAILAND: My friend Barry who is married to a Thai woman and who visits Thailand frequently told me that it is not uncommon for Thai cat owners to abandon their unwanted cats...
May 17, 2020
This is a good news story. I’d feared that there would be an increase in the number of cats and dogs abandoned because of concerns that they might spread coronavirus as there have been...
April 10, 2020
There is an interesting post on Reddit.com by the child of a woman who, by the description of her behavior, matches the sort of character who is the cause of the feral cat problem...
December 3, 2019
The cute and uplifting Cats Protection Christmas video tells a story that occurs far too often in many countries. The reality is very sad and the outcome is often not as happy as presented...
November 12, 2019
Close to a dozen cats were dumped outside a Dayton, Ohio animal shelter on Monday only hours before a snowstorm was due to hit. Only one is still on the loose after climbing a...
October 10, 2019
“People who do these kinds of things are cowards. There’s so many rescues out there, there are so many shelters. There’s so many other options, just reach out. Social media has so many open...