What affects us affects cats
By Guest Author (internal links added by Michael) So you finally got Mr. Fluffy Wiskerkitten home and set him up with his embroidered bedding, gourmet food and twice-filtered natural spring water only to find him sleeping on your dirty clothes, eating something unmentionable, and drinking from the pool by the end of the day. …
In the UK, a cat owner has a legal duty to provide a suitable environment for her cat. This is quite a tough aspect of British law based on what I describe below. It is the duty of a cat owner to ensure her cat’s welfare meets certain standards and a cat owner commits …
The three go together, don’t they? What is it that brings these three words together, so often? You have to come to one conclusion: the world is potentially a dangerous place for a cat or the cat is a danger to people if, as so often happens, people separate the cat from the world …
Should a mentally ill person be allowed to keep a cat? I don’t think that this question has been asked before. I think it is a reasonable question. But please don’t misunderstand me. A cat companion to a person who has mental health issues and who is perhaps vulnerable from a mental health standpoint, …
I almost decided against writing this article for PoC because it tells of the tragic death of a crated dog. Then I got to thinking a bit. A lot of my cat loving friends also have dogs. Many run rescues, and it’s routine to “crate train” a dog before offering it for adoption. Cats …
A good cat owner – I prefer to use the phrase “cat caretaker” or “cat guardian” – should rely on intuition or a gut feeling when deciding if her cat is feeling well and is content or not. To many people, it might seem very vague and wishy-washy to rely upon something so intangible …
Are the internet giants Facebook and Wikipedia good or bad for the domestic cat? Facebook is the number 2 website in the world by visitor numbers (after Google) and Wikipedia is around number 6. They provide information about the cat in different ways. Wikipedia is purely informational. It is meant to provide hard facts. …
A recent news story indicates that the British have become more intolerant to the sight of meat for sale, which further indicates that there is a gentle shift towards vegetarianism and a greater sensitivity towards animals. Or are Brits simply becoming more intolerant of the real world and want to live in a sanitized, …
