What affects us affects cats
Lejandro Acosta Oliveros, a 45-year-old man from Santa Ana, California, was arrested on April 23, 2025, on felony animal cruelty charges after being accused of abducting, torturing, and killing over a dozen neighborhood cats over the past two years. The Santa Ana Police Department initiated the investigation following multiple reports from residents in the …
Here’s a five-bullet summary of the story: More: crime
This is a story which reminds us that typically cat poisoners hide in plain sight, in the community where they live, and can even be ‘pillars of the community’. This is an allegation at this stage and therefore nothing is proved in a criminal court of law; a point that needs to be made …
AVOID websites answering the question “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” If you search for “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” you may find yourself clicking on Google search result which takes you to a website which has been created by malware hackers. The site that you visit may download malware (poisonous software) to …
The world hates rats. Unfair. Speciesism in action. Although, some people love them and this story may change the public profile of this much maligned ‘pest’ so mercilessly persecuted by humans. They are smart and eminently trainable with memories as good as the best sniffer dogs. Being a lot smaller they can rummage around …
On another website I wrote up a story about the arrest of a Haitian woman because witnesses said that she had eaten someone’s pet cat in a public place [link to the story – opens new tab]. It’s the most bizarre arrest that one can imagine. The video below from X tells you more. …
NEWS AND OPINION: My research tells me that in 2019 (or perhaps 2020), an amendment was made to South African’s Animal Improvement Act (AIA) to reclassify lions as farm animals. The government amended the AIA to include lions as a “species” that can be bred as livestock. There was no public consultation. The amendment …
Click this to see the screenshots. Warning: it is unpleasant but all you see is the landlord with a hand gun pointing at the cat. You don’t see the cat. I won’t show the video as Google does not like them (and I hate them). But I believe people should be aware of these …
