What affects us affects cats
GAINSBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE, UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: This article is about the culmination of a huge struggle by animal rescuer, Michelle Page, of Page’s Pet Rescue, and her colleagues in trying both to save the lives of cats hoarded by a delusional (in my view) individual who calls himself “Catmando” and to try and …
Halloween is on the horizon and as usual cat welfare advocates have to try and encourage people to remember the dangers and protect their cats against mad people who think that Halloween is a good time to be violent against cats. This is a throwback to mediaeval times when the cat was persecuted across …
FLORIDA – NEWS AND VIEWS: This is the story of a volunteer cat rescue worker who rescued cats from cat hoarders while at the same time being a cat hoarder herself. It is highly unusual in that respect. It is the story of 36-year-old Michelline Toulouse. She lives in an apartment at Sunrise, Florida, …
DUBLIN, IRELAND-NEWS AND COMMENT: The Irish Sun has reported on a scam concerning cats that I have never heard of before. The scammers offer to remove so called ‘stray cats’ from housing estates and even apparently back gardens. They charge for the process and they say that they are going to take the animals …
It is said that airbags deploy with such force that they can damage a dog cage. I presume that means a metal one. What about the soft cat carriers which are popular? It seems certain that an airbag could seriously harm a cat in one of those in an accident when the cat is …
NEWS AND COMMENT-VIRGINIA, USA: A couple living in Virginia, USA, have been charged with the murder of their three-week-old baby but they blamed their cat for their daughter’s death. Matthew and Elizabeth Sebolka have been charged with their daughter’s homicide according to a report on Microsoft News. Their daughter, Raven, had a skull fracture …
NEWS AND COMMENT – TAIWAN: I wrote about this earlier. It concerns a smuggling operation when purebred cats of great value are smuggled from mainland China to Taiwan using the sea route. The smugglers have been intercepted and the cats confiscated. It is now reported in The Guardian newspaper that, in total, the cats …
This picture of Luka Magnotta, which I believe was taken in prison, shows him looking very different the way he was earlier, in his relative youth, as you can see in the accompanying photograph. In the earlier photographs he came across as an androgynous-looking individual; quite pretty if that’s a good description. He’s filled …
