A Michael Broad Blog
Americans much prefer dogs to cats according to what seems to be a professional run poll, yet there are more domestic cats than dogs in the US. There are an estimated 83.3 million dogs and 95.6 million cats1. The difference is in the number of cats and dogs per household: 1.47 – the average …
This page contains a chart comparing statistics on cat and dog bites worldwide and for some selected countries where data is available. The statistics are not always precise. Many animals can and do bite humans including the human animal. The most common are from snakes, dogs, cats and monkeys. The number of bites from an …
Cats often get a raw deal compared to dogs. Declawing is an example. Another example is cats kept inside full-time or cats being shot at with bullets in the USA and air gun pellets in the UK5. There appears to be more feral cats than feral dogs in Europe and feral cats are often …
Andy Murray prefers dogs to cats 🙁 . He has two border terriers as animal companions. Their names are Rusty (Rascal) and Maggie (Mayhem). It seems he likes a bit of action. I forgive him. He likes animals. His dogs travel with him when he goes to Miami for training. Good. That is the …
Speciesism is about favouring one species of animal over another. It usually refers to favouring the rights of the human, homo sapiens, over other species. In this instance I am discussing what appears to be the better rights bestowed upon the dog compared to the cat.
The UK government demonstrates speciesism when creating legislation concerning cats and dogs. I am referring to the Road Traffic Act 1988.
There are at least two references to dogs in the Act. The domestic cat is not mentioned.
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra Thanks to Kevin for inspiring this article by his comment that he and his sister are cat lovers and definitely not dog lovers. There is no reason why a person can’t love both cats and dogs of course but most people favour one over the other. I do love dogs and …
The people of India, a most interesting country and a great country to visit, prefer dogs to cats. Although I am not completely sure. However, the indication that they do comes from an interesting story in The Indian Express, an online newspaper, about animal rescue in India. In finding homes for unwanted cats and …
by Michael (London, UK) Photo by mickeymox (Flickr) Recently I wrote an article on the ownership of cats in the UK. It was about the type of families and people who kept cats and the number of cats in the UK. A notable point was that more intelligent people kept cats! (see the article …
