Stationmaster Cat – world’s most celebrated ‘working cat’

Stationmaster cat Tama

This is a revisit of Tama, the much-celebrated stationmaster cat who brought fame and profit to a failing railway line in Japan. She was a stray cat living near the station and was elevated to celebrity and the role of stationmaster. Her duties included greeting travellers and of course entertaining them. She became world-famous. …

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Being sensitive to the connection that cats have to their home range

It is like he wanted our help

This is a video which shows us how a workplace employee (or business owner, not sure which) was delightfully sensitive to the connection that a stray cat had to his ‘home range’. All species of cat have a home range, which is the place they consider their home and which varies tremendously in size …

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University of Verona allows employees to bring their pets to work after lockdown

University of Verona

I don’t have the full story of this because of various reasons but it caught my eye as something that was incredibly gentle and sensitive to cat and dog welfare but also impractical. In Italy they have ended their lockdown. The University of Verona, in the north of the country, decided that as cats …

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