A Michael Broad Blog
Stepan is your average tabby cat who’s become a social media star. I like that. The ordinary can become the extraordinary. He became a successful animal influencer during the Covid pandemic rising to international prominence as cat lovers related to his videos of parties during long spells of social distancing. It was the era …
Amira, a student from Morocco in Ukraine, flees the Russian invasion with her cat Simba on her shoulders
We must not forget the animals in this unnecessary war caused by the blatant and wanton invasion of a democratic country by that madman Putin. He is determined to turn the clock back to the old USSR. And he knows that he had to take Ukraine before they joined NATO. If a NATO country …
The female, family cat whose name is Ronnie somehow became trapped in a large space behind a plasterboard wall. It’s not clear what had gone on to make that huge space and it is not clear why Ronnie found herself in that space. But it is clear that the couple who are Ronnie’s caregivers …
MALAYSIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: It is not uncommon for an individual cat to seek shelter and warmth in the engine compartment (‘bay’) of a vehicle especially during cold weather and at night. But this is the first time that I have bumped into a story about a mother cat making the engine bay of a …
NEWS AND VIEWS: I have discovered that the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was the home for 25-30 cats. I use the past tense because all embassy staff have reportedly abandoned the station. CNN reports that the embassy is empty except for, I suspect, the 25-30 cats who depended upon the staff for sustenance. …
I don’t want to give the impression that four legs are better than two but all the chaos, distress, death and destruction in Kabul is human created. It is bad enough if innocent people are killed in this mayhem, as hundred are, but at least they are of the same species as the people …
My interpretation of the information that I have indicates that there was one adult female cat on the Titanic together with her litter of kittens. We don’t know the size of the litter. This information is according to Charles Pellegrino in his 2012 book Farwell Titanic Her Final Legacy. The cat’s name was Jenny …
