A Michael Broad Blog
Comment: the stray cat problem is as usual down to irresponsible cat caregiving in failing to spay and neuter their animals. The solution as always is education. A lot of the problems concerning the human-to-cat relationship is down to a lack of education. It leads to animal cruelty. Not deliberately but as a consequence …
The infographic spells out the numbers and they come from reliable sources but I am almost compelled to conclude that they are misleading. If not something dramatically good has happened for shelter cats in the USA. Perhaps shelter management are taking up Nathan Winograd’s advice in greater numbers. He has been pressing the shelters …
There is a startling graph on Reddit, which you can see below, which tells us that 18 of the most violent cities in the world in 2021 are located in Mexico and they are streets ahead of the rest. Too many guns, I guess. Too many guns in America as well – yesterday’s Texas …
It’s an extraordinary twist of fate; Covid has saved the lives of about 4 million companion animals in the USA. This is because of soaring adoptions during the pandemic. The information relates to 2020 so it’s a bit out of date and I can’t find current figures. I would expect the current figures to …
The percentage of domestic cats (‘client-owned’) with FIV (Feline immunodeficiency virus) various substantially depending on the country and the status of the cats. The variation is surprising to me. The differences may be due to the fact that sometimes domestic cats are stray cats and there is a big range of lifestyles of domestic …
Twice as many dogs are overweight in America than 10 years ago and it’s worse for cats. Banfield Pet Hospital, a chain of hospitals in America, is well positioned to collect data to allow them to analyze trends in the health of America’s companion animals. They’ve come up with a startling conclusion which is …
Here are 77 comparisons of various kinds involving cats (mainly), dogs and people. As there are many pages on this website in which I compare and contrast various facts, cats, dogs and people including numbers and indeed any other fact, I thought it would be useful if I compiled a list of those pages …
You have to specify the date in order to accurately state the number of cats there are in the UK because the number is climbing. It is ever-changing. The number is climbing because the human population is climbing in the UK. In my opinion, the best source of the information needed to answer the …
