What affects us affects cats
A 20-year-old male student, Cheng Lu, was irritated by his girlfriend’s cat when in her Melbourne, Australia apartment. Her cat had scratched his leg from under a couch in April 2018. Mr Lu’s response was to grab the cat, Chau Chau, and put her outside (I have decided the cat was female). He did …
The Norwich City Council in New York State is thinking about imposing a fine on residents who feed feral cats. The council received a complaint from residents about the cats and so they are taking steps to rectify the problem in their view. It is a perennial problem across the US. The city’s mayor …
In the trial of Joseph Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic, a man, Allen Glover, testified under oath that Joe Exotic gave him $3,000 to cut the head off Carole Baskin the well-known founder, owner and manager of the equally well-known Big Cat Rescue in Florida. It’s extraordinary. Glover said he had no intention of following …
Update: it’s come to my attention that the man involved in the story may be the same person who has been accused of several attempted robberies and home invasions. If he is then his name is Derek Lamont Walker aged 22. A gutsy – really gutsy – Floridian, 70-year-old woman was feeding feral cats …
Color-coded with paint or permanent marker unwanted cats are used as bait in dog fights. Spectators bet on which color will survive the longest. It doesn’t surprise me, almost nothing surprises me nowadays concerning acts of cruelty against animals. In this instance it has come to my attention that cats acquired in various ways, …
It is not a crime to overfeed your cat to the point where they become obese. If it was there would be tens of millions of Americans in court charged with animal cruelty because there are tens of millions of overfed obese cats in America. The problem is not unique to America. Being less …
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA: I wrote about Jennifer Oustrich in Aug 2018. She’s a landlord and didn’t like stray cats around her properties so left out poisoned bait and allegedly killed 2 cats. She was charged with a felony – a serious crime. However, she was not tried for this crime but was sentenced …
A 13-year-old girl and two 14-year-old girls have been arrested for being cruel to kittens. This happened in the UK. It is astonishing that such young girls can be involved in animal cruelty of this nature. They have been arrested after video footage appeared on Snapchat showing two kittens being abused by being hurled …
