A Michael Broad Blog
David Domoney, a British celebrity horticulturalist, has a ‘hack’ for keeping cats off your garden. He said: “One of the things that has worked effectively for me in the past is to save tea bags and spray them with a muscle heat spray, like Deep Heat.” Right, that’s it. The hack of the century. …
There are many people who want to keep neighbours’ cats out of their backyard and there are many methods, some of which will fail. I like these two methods and I will recommend them as a starting point because they may fix the problem for you. Importantly they are humane and perhaps even more …
A Welsh woman, Emma Neville, became enraged when her four-year-old daughter picked up cat faeces on her hands while she was playing in her garden (‘backyard’ in America). She posted on Facebook that she would put poisoned chicken down with the intention of poisoning any cat who entered her garden. The post was picked …
A Savannah cat, possible a relatively high filial and therefore slightly more wild, surreptitiously entered a neighbor’s home and attacked one of the home owner’s cats, a calico. The cat was seized by animal control because this breed is and wild cat hybrid and illegal in Rhode Island, USA. A bad outcome for all concerned and it could have been avoided.
He obviously has a completely different attitude to life to me. He has a completely different attitude towards animals to me. He is a different sort of person. To me he’s an alien. We come from completely different sections of society. The background to this is so typical as to be boring. But it …
Little Boy was a three-year-old black-and-white cat. He was loved by his owner. He must have been an indoor/outdoor cat because he went outside on January 18 to go to the toilet. He never came back. Due to a catalogue of events all of which are due to human behaviour, he ended up being …
