A Michael Broad Blog
Post Covid I think it is fair to say that the lifetime cost of caring for a domestic cat has gone up substantially! 😢😎😱. It is something all cat adopters need to be aware of, I feel. It is expensive to look after a cat well. Of course, there is a range of standards. …
This is a 2-page infographic. At the base of the first one is a link to the second (costs). I am often reminded of the cost of looking after a domestic cat. And with inflationary pressures on all fronts including cat caregiving these costs can bite sometimes. Of course, it depends on disposable income …
My title to this article stems from a story in The Telegraph newspaper of yesterday which reports on a male veterinarian who ended his life because, in part, he was so distressed about a minority of relatively wealthy owners requesting that he euthanize their companion animals rather than treat them because the treatment would …
I’ve just been surfing the Internet and bumped into a story about the RSPCA in Barrow, UK. This is Barrow-in-Furness which is just south of the Lake District National Park. It’s in the north of England and there is a slightly different culture in the north compared to the south in general and it …
For some time, I have realised that Hill’s Prescription® dry cat food is as expensive as steak in the UK. In the image I present two examples from Amazon. Sometimes Hill’s is more expensive than steak and it is certainly more expensive than rump steak. More: Chemical composition of effective dry cat food attractant, …
This is a lovely example of: Gwen, 84, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK, retired from her full-time job as a cleaner at a local school four years ago. She is recovering from a stroke. She has a limited budget which is being squeezed in the UK in various ways including what was inflation until recently …
The cost of energy to heat one’s home and with which to do one’s daily tasks such as cooking, is becoming prohibitive in the UK. A lot of people are turning off their heating or turning it down and wearing several layers of clothes instead, inside their homes. The cost of day-to-day living, for …
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is the first strike that has ever occurred according to the union ‘Unite’ at a UK private veterinary practice and it is a consequence, allegedly, of greed by the private equity-owned operator: VetPartners, which owns the vet practice called Valley Vets in south Wales. This is an extension of a …
