A Michael Broad Blog
There are growing numbers of asthma sufferers in the West. Thirty percent of children have allergies. Children living on farms are less likely to suffer from an allergy. I think that it is generally known now that microbes on farms help to protect children from asthma and allergies. They help to develop the immune …
An eight-year-old boy collapsed and was taken to a hospital such was the emotional shock to him when he discovered that his eight-month-old kitten companion, Kiki, had been brutally murdered and beheaded by the cat killer known as the “Croydon Cat Killer”. The Croydon Cat Killer has been in the news regularly for months …
This is one of those beautiful little stories in which a young girl raises a tiny rescued kitten who was probably near death and who is now a thriving, healthy tabby cat. I’ll be honest, I don’t know an awful lot about the background to the story; for example, where it takes place. We …
I love this story based on Finnish research. If the cat benefits people (cats do in many ways), cats benefit as well. The more useful the domestic cat, the better treated and respected he or she will be. Cat welfare is important to me. There are quite a lot of stories biased against the …
