What affects us affects cats
In this video we see a woman climbing through a cat door in the US. Admittedly the cat door is larger than normal but everything in America is larger than normal! That’s meant to be a compliment by the way. Their “cat doors” are certainly about twice the size as “cat flaps” in the …
Officially, Google is a dog company. This is speciesism. And it is very high-profile speciesism but the reason that the Google bosses will give is that because Google is a dog company, and dogs are welcome to work with the owners in their massive Googleplex headquarters, there is no place for cats because of …
Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has usefully written about pet theft in the UK for the Mail on Sunday. His article is published on the Mail Online website. Observers will have read the stories about the surge in pet thefts in the UK, mainly of dogs, due to the Covid-19 pandemic which encouraged …
This is a quick update, no more, because I don’t have much information, on an article that I wrote on 28 November 2020. At that time the public was made aware that the then President-elect, Joe Biden, and his wife Jill intended to bring to the White House two dogs and a cat. We …
SURVEY – COMMENT: A survey commissioned by a pet food manufacturer, I and love and you, conducted by OnePoll produced some extraordinary information. Perhaps the most outstanding is the information in the title to this article. It seems astonishing that more than four out of ten people or persons who adopt a cat do …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The UK government is planning to introduce legislation which prevents the purchase of companion animals with cash. This means that all purchases of cats and dogs and other animals would have to be through online transfers, debit or credit cards or cheques, as I understand it. The government is building on …
“We have a strong suspicion of transmission from human to pet, not vice versa”, said a vet. There is no need to panic but to listen and learn. Knowledge is useful when used properly. There is news out that some vets believe that there is a link between a variant of the Covid-19 virus …
The backstory to this picture of a young cat lying next to an elderly dog who suffered from separation anxiety is a good one. Perhaps there was quite a lot of luck involved but the lesson is that sometimes a cat can cure a dog’s separation anxiety and I guess vice versa. If a …
