A Michael Broad Blog
“A good cat video is one with a tragic ending, a devastating one. The reason is, firstly, because I wanted to amuse myself; to put the cats in crazy situations. I also saw that sad videos generate more engagement because they elicit the compassion of viewers.” – Charles, a creator of tragic-ending anthropomorphized (humanized) …
It looks great. Makes a great video. Blah blah. But is it really practical and sensible? Or am I being too realistic and practical? Too serious. No fun, party pooper? Grumpy? I mean it just looks mad to me. Nice but mad. What’s madder is that the lady of the house, Pearl, has a …
We are told that Asher, a 16-year-old female cat, was raised with two dogs and has adopted some canine characteristics such as barking like a small dog. Note: this page is made with text and three embeds – two videos and the image below. These embeds may one day fail and if that has …
Perhaps the notable aspect of this video which shows a man saving a cat from a vicious dog attack is that he physically intervenes by grabbing the dog and pulling it off the cat. He did not resort to violence himself and, for example, kick the dog or hit the dog in some other …
I’d never thought of this before. I am not even sure it is a great topic for discussion but it caught my eye in TikTok because it is unusual. Normally the main way you can tell if a cat is asleep is because their eyes are closed (❤️ ω ❤️). For blind cats that …
Another kitten rescue from TikTok. A nice one. Lovely woman. There are many cat rescues on social media. Some (hopefully rarely) are sadly contrived and even set up but this one is genuine except that in days gone by no one rescuing a kitten from the middle of a country road where they had …
Well, I have just bumped into an excellent American veterinarian, Dr. Drew, on social media, who has a TikTok label of “The Jungle Vet”. A good one because he does a lot of wild animal treatments. And what he says chimes completely with what I have felt for many years; in fact, for as …
When I watch this video (and I have seen it and written about it before) I think of cat declawing. You can guess why but I’ll tell you why. The cat is vigorously kneading his owner’s face. If the claws where not trimmed and probably filed so they were smooth, her face would be …
