Sunscreen for cats and dogs is not a gimmick – ingredients to avoid

White cat in sun in danger of sunburnt ear flaps

Sunscreen for cats and dogs is not a gimmick. It is a serious business and veterinarians recommend you use it in protecting your companion animal but there are dangers and it is advised to not use products for humans as they contain ingredients which can be harmful to companion animals. In a recent survey …

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Are indoor or indoor/outdoor cats healthier?

Domestic cat health - indoor versus indoor and outdoor lives

You would think that the answer is obvious and that you would say that indoor cats are healthier than indoor/outdoor cats. It’s more subtle than that. This is a big subject but perhaps it is useful to divide the health problems into two categories (1) trauma (2) everything else including parasitic infections, infectious diseases, …

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The biggest cat welfare disaster as yet unwritten is about to happen

Covid and Ukraine invasion has set back fight against global warming and therefore welfare of us all including our pets

It’s on the horizon. It is a news item which has yet to be written. It concerns cat welfare, dog welfare and our welfare. It concerns everything. It is the setback to the fight against climate change brought about by, firstly, Covid and now the Ukraine invasion. For me, these two disasters have setback …

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Husband describes fleeing Kyiv with his wife and two cats

Scotty and Pixie

Dima, a software engineer, living with his wife, Tetiana, and their two cats, Scotty and Pixie, provides us with an intimate description of their escape from the Ukraine’s capital Kyiv when the bombs started to crash nearby. He first heard the sounds of bombs exploding on the morning of February 24, 2022. He was …

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BBC presenter, Clive Myrie, questions whether evacuating Ukrainians should take their cats with them

Clive Myrie presenting from Kyiv, Ukraine during the invasion

Clive Myrie is a talented and admired BBC news presenter and journalist. And rightly so. He is a top-quality presenter and in my view one of the best that the BBC has. He might be the best. But I think that he has inadvertently made a mistake which upsets me slightly. He’s been presenting …

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Black panther cub – cute roar – only it’s in Ukraine during the war

Black panther cub - melanistic leopard cub - makes a cute roar in the basement of a home in the Donbass region of Ukraine during Putin's invasion

For a reason which remains unexplained, Dr. Bandi Giri Kumar lives in an apartment in the Donbass region of Ukraine during the invasion by Putin’s forces. The problem is that he has a couple of unsuitable pets namely a full-grown leopard and a young black panther a.k.a. melanistic leopard. The melanistic leopard is very …

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Picture: elderly woman, Lidiia lives with her cat, Matilda, near the fighting in Eastern Ukraine

Lidiia and her cat Matilda live near the fighting in Eastern Ukraine

This tweet is sad, isn’t it? An elderly woman who needs some peace and security in her life as does her cat and the bloody Russians want to gobble up her country. Well, it’s not the Russians generally, they don’t want the war. It’s the evil tactical genius/madman, Putin, who demands it. He thinks …

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