What affects us affects cats
Like others I expect, I am immensely impressed by the monumental effort of Jeffrey Beri and his team at the New York-based No Dogs Left Behind charity in rescuing dozens of cats and dogs in China where they were destined to be brutally tortured, then eaten. They were flown from China to New York. …
NEWS AND COMMENT-QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA: Gloves trimmed with genuine domestic and stray cat fur are on sale at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne. They are marketed as fake (faux) fur but when they were tested by an American laboratory the fur trimming was found to be genuine and that of a …
It is astonishing to report that China’s government still refuses to countenance the possibility of introducing animal welfare legislation despite the conclusion from the 2020 Pet Industry Report that the number of pet owners in China have increased from 73.15 million in 2017 to 99.15 million in 2019. It is projected that there will …
Cat and dog meat is on the political menu, thankfully. There is a tendency by some, and I am firmly in this category, to criticise some Asian countries for allowing the brutal and unregulated killing of cats and dogs as part of the cat and dog meat trade. It is believed that killing the …
ANALYSIS-OPINION: Tom Tate the Mayor of the Gold Coast in Australia has been accused of being racist because he went off script at a press conference in Townsville on Monday when he said: “You wouldn’t want to put a Chinese next to someone who’s got a cat, you know. She might be breakfast.” THERE …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): A kind woman was filmed by another woman apparently measuring up a feral cat so that she could make a coat for the animal in preparation for a cold winter. It indicated that there are many people in China who are animal advocates. They are concerned about animal welfare and …
NEWS AND VIEWS – OPINION – PLEASE LET ME HEAR YOURS TOO: Four Paws, an animal welfare organisation has investigated the cat meat trade in Vietnam. The Independent newspaper reported it. I don’t know whether you should read it. It is too upsetting. It is too nasty and grisly and unpleasant. Steel yourself, please. …
OPINION PLEASE NOTE – DISAGREE? TELL ME PLEASE: It may surprise people to know that there are 10 countries where cat and dog meat (or cat or dog meat) is still on the menu. Although Taiwan has just banned it which is a good sign that in the Far East there is a gradual …
