A Michael Broad Blog
A Las Vegas, Nevada free roaming community cat is back in his ‘outdoor home’ after a very strange entrapment that required help from animal rescuers. The cat somehow got his head stuck in a dryer vent mount. Now he’s another successful TNR (trap-neuter-return) tale. The Animal Foundation, Nevada’s largest animal shelter and pet adoption …
There are two nicely optimistic pictures of cats without their ear flaps on the internet both of which come from Facebook rescue organisations. They both lost their ear flaps (pinnae) because of infections and haematomas. I wondered how it had happened. Some quick research revealed the answer. Community cats are prone to getting ear …
Brazilian journalist Artur Lira is genuinely fond of cats judging by what happened when he was about to present a report on television outside a police station. As you can see in the Facebook video, the black-and-white cat interrupted his television report. He just laughed off the moment and enjoyed it. The perfect reaction …
This is New York, the home of Bodega cats. Bodega cats are community cats who live in delicatessen and general stores in New York. They are cared for by the community and perhaps a particular shopkeeper. In this example a Bodega cat by the name of Lexi, a female tabby-and-white, lived in and around …
A Turkish community cat attacks men but not women. The video clearly shows this. People are scratching their heads as to why this happens. The cat is outside a market in Istanbul, the country’s largest city. The cat’s antics have been picked up by security cameras. You can see that when a man passes …
This is a story about an autistic boy’s love for a young cat, the theft of that cat and the intriguing question of whether a theft took place…. Jonathans’s love for Luna Ismael Diaz’s autistic son, Jonathan, loves their shop’s cat, Luna. Jonathan’s family run a deli in the Bronx, NY and you might …
This story comes from Turkey. It is extraordinary, it has to be said. A shop assistant at an electronics store, a mild mannered man in appearance whose name is Ahmet Dilaver, was jailed for allegedly provoking a community cat to attack a female customer. I use the word “allegedly” because even though he was …
This video appears to have been made in Iraq fairly recently. The man is Muntadher al-Zaidi, a journalist. He has quite a big following on Twitter. This sweet little cat is all over him. She desperately needs a human companion to care for her. I have assumed her to be female. He saw her …
