Lucian Freud accused of throwing kitten over farm wall to taunt rival

Lucian Freud

Jon Lys Turner was a friend of Richard Chopping, an artist who illustrated the covers of eight James Bond 007 books by Ian Fleming, the creator of the character. Chopping was a rival of Lucian Freud. They knew each other through Fleming’s wife Ann and they went to the same art school. Chopping hated …

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Bullied and oppressed as a child he released his anger by torturing and killing his four young cats

Graham Williiam Reid aged 29 a high school teacher who tortured and killed his 4 young cats

NEWS AND COMMENT: The story of Graham William Reid, 29, a geometry teacher at a Texas high school, sheds light on the mentality of someone who tortures and kills vulnerable animals. Reid tortured and killed his cats: Cabbage, Parsnip, Carrot and Broccoli over six months until March this year. He told investigators that he …

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Sentience is central to cat welfare

Kurt Corbain with cats. He loved animals

I’m going to refer to cats more than other animals but of course sentence applies to any animal. What is sentience? It is the ability to feel and experience emotions, both positive and negative. Cats and other animals can experience pain and joy. It is central to our relationship with animals and to the …

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Video of cat being rescued at Russian garbage plant conveyor belt

Cat rescued from Russian waste processing plant

This is a happy ending video on the New York Post website which shows a tuxedo cat being rescued by a garbage plant worker. I think he is placing garbage from a container onto the conveyor belt which is taken to a machine which would have surely killed the cat. It seems fortuitous that …

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Tasmanian farmers are unnecessarily cruel to feral cats

Tasmanian sheep farmer

Background Tasmania is an island state of Australia and sheep farming is a major component of Australia’s agricultural industry. The protozoan parasite toxoplasmosis is well known. The domestic and stray cat is the primary host. They shed Toxoplasma gondii oocysts for about eight days in faeces but the oocysts are durable and survive in …

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An MP in the Croydon area is urging for police to reopen UK cat mutilation investigation

cat mutilation deaths

An MP in the Croydon, UK area is urging for police to reopen the Croydon cat killer/mutilation investigation. As many as 400 cats were reported mutilated or killed in and around south London since November 2015. Metropolitan Police closed their three-year investigation, Operation Takahe, in 2018. Six cases needed a more thorough investigation but …

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Not guilty: Edmonton Humane Society employee on trial for leaving three cats in a van for three weeks

Case paperwork showing on of the cats

EDMONTON, CANADA: You may remember this case from spring 2018. It was quite high profile at the time and was treated as a serious event by the Humane Society resulting in Mariah Berini being charged with causing or permitting animals to be in distress under the Animal Protection Act and failing to provide adequate …

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