What affects us affects cats
National Cat Day was started to highlight cats at cat rescue shelters and to celebrate the domestic cat companion. Therefore, this day, which takes place on October 29 annually in the US, should be for people who do not live with a cat and those who do. For people who are thinking about adopting …
Maud Feijt posted to her Twitter feed pictures of a cat bedroom that she constructed with her partner because she says that “we made our cats a bedroom”. And her Twitter feed has accrued a lot of likes and comments so clearly people are interested in this sort of construction. People like to see …
There’s a huge study out at the moment from the University of Southern California concerning a third of a million people in 67 countries. Although it is obviously wrong to generalise, the scientists found that women say that they are more concerned about the virtues of fairness, compassion and moral purity than men. And …
I’ve been trying to find out whether it is illegal (actually a crime) in the UK to threaten to harm a companion animal within domestic violence. We know that an abusive partner can threaten to harm a cat or dog in order to get at their partner. It’s a way of controlling a person …
A designated pet savings account at your bank is a good way to manage self-insurance for cat and dog companion health. A little while ago I suggested that self-insurance is a better way to insure your pet’s health because you avoid the administration charges of a big insurance company and their necessity to make …
It is difficult to provide a straightforward answer to the question in the title. However, things have changed with respect to “packing peanuts”. These are Styrofoam packing materials. Traditionally they were made of polystyrene which is made from petroleum-based substances. However, my research tells me that since the early 1990s starch-based packing peanuts have …
It could be argued that pet insurance is not as popular as it could or should be. The take-up is not impressive in the UK (25%) but an exception is Sweden (90%) in the EU (see below). One reason is that it can be uncompetitive when compared to self-insurance i.e. a savings scheme run …
There is a questionmark over whether ionizers are safe for cats. Ionic air purifiers produce negative ions. The negatively charged ions attract positively charged particles such as dust and other allergens which cleans the air because the combined particle is more easily trapped by the air purifier’s filters and they also fall to the …
